Rocket Spanish Comes Downloadable or on CDs

Rocket Spanish is one of the most popular of the Spanish language programs that I review on this site. (If you haven’t seen it, here’s my comparison chart for different programs..)

Anyway, I thought it might be helpful to spell out what the two different ways are that you can get Rocket Spanish.

There is a noticeable price difference, though either way the program is one of the most economical ways to learn conversational Spanish along with a good bit of grammar, reading, and writing.

Their prices may change, and I think they sometimes may have specials, so I won’t list prices here. For the whole scoop on the program and prices,  just go to the Rocket Spanish website.

[1] INSTANT DOWNLOAD

The less expensive format is available for you to download right after you pay for it. A nice thing about that is that you can have the program so fast.  It comes as sound files and ebooks. You can listen to the sound files in the members area of the Rocket Spanish website, or you can download them. They are mp3 files, suitable for playing on an iPod or other device or on your computer. The Rocket Spanish site also offers to mail you the files on CD for an additional handling fee.

[2] HARDCOPY SET

This costs more but is more convenient if you would prefer to play the program on a regular CD player that doesn’t play mp3 files. The sound quality is said to be somewhat better, since the files aren’t compressed. (I have only listened to the downloadable ones and I thought they were fine.)

My Recommendation

It really depends on what you want to do. If you decide you’d like to use a regular CD player you already have, you might want the more expensive version.

On the other hand, if you wanted the less expensive version to play on a CD player that doesn’t play mp3s, I know that there is software you can download that would enable you to transfer the mp3 files to whatever format the CD players need… but I haven’t done this myself. This would take having some pretty good computer skills.
Or another choice would be to get the less expensive version of Rocket Spanish and to also buy yourself an iPod or other mp3 player. Here’s an Amazon link to the Apple iPod classic. You might spend a little more to get this and the downloaded Rocket Spanish than to  get the Rocket Spanish physical package, but then you’d have an iPod too!