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You want to be able to speak Japanese. You even want to be able to read and write Japanese… But, when push comes to shove, your Japanese studies always take a back seat to the billions of other things going on in your life. The end result? You get frustrated with your lack of progress and risk giving up.

Rocket Japanese promises to remove the frustration and get you speaking Japanese right away.

Is it even possible to pick up Japanese as rapidly as Rocket Japanese claims? I decided to sign up for Rocket Japanese and find out.

Everyone learns differently. Some people learn best when they practice; some learn best when they read text; others when they listen and then others are visual learners. I’m happy to report that Rocket Japanese has all these bases covered.

Included in Rocket Japanese is a full audio course, a three volume grammar course, visual and audio learning games and an interactive forum. You can choose to run these from the internet or download them to your PC.

When I first logged in, I was a little overwhelmed with all of the options available, but it doesn’t take long to find your way around (things progress more quickly if you read the “READ ME FIRST” section, but I’m a master at skipping over those!).

My findings:

What you will learn

• Daily conversation skills
• Reading and writing hiragana
• Japanese cultural details

Positives

• Will take a complete beginner to a conversational level in Japanese
• The course is fun
• The course is designed for busy people, so you can do small chunks at a time (5-10 minute sessions can be enough)
• The entire course can be completed from your home PC
• No waiting time, get started immediately
• Any questions you ask get answered fast in the forum
• Much of Rocket Japanese is game based and therefore simple and fun to use
• Ability to expand Vocab learning game

Negatives

• In the audio course it would be good to have two native speakers. Currently there is one native speaker and one non-native speaker.

Cost

• The cost of Rocket Japanese is $97 for the downloadable version. This might seem like a lot of money, but in reality the forum membership on it’s own is worth this much.

Who is this for?

• People who are not conversational now, but want to be in the shortest time possible
• Complete beginners
• People with some passive Japanese knowledge

Where do I get it?