Most people don’t believe that it is possible to learn French fast enough to be able to converse with native French speakers in as little as 2 months. I didn’t believe it at first, and neither did a friend of mine who found himself in the face of a company promotion that would completely jumpstart his career with only one catch: He needs to migrate to Paris, France.

The moving itself was not a big problem for my friend, being single and having his parents in another country, his only problem was that he doesn’t know how to speak French, and he only has a span of 3 months to say yes before they give the promotion to another one. He is deathly afraid of being stuck in a foreign country unable to interact with them through speech (his job entails him to talk to people, so this fear is really understandable).

His only option other than to refuse the job offer is to bend time and space itself so that he can learn a foreign language in a few weeks’ time. We tried to look for ways he can learn French but all of them take a lot of time. Even the private tutorial class that boasts of speed and efficiency could only promise him 5 to 7 months of daily sessions before he can be able to converse comfortably with native French speakers.

Fortunately, at that time I was also made aware of Rocket French, which is a set or series of French lessons I found on the net. It boasts of being able to teach people how to speak French within the span of 8 weeks or 2 months time. I was skeptical at first so I did some searching on the Internet and looked for reviews, praises or criticisms and was surprised to see that there are even people who managed to learn in less than 8 weeks. I figured Rocket French would be the right choice for my friend. Trusting my judgment, he downloaded Rocket French’s 6-day trial course and accepted the job promotion at the same day.

A few days later when I ran into him again, he already ordered the full course, claiming that the 6 day course proved to him on the first day how effective the program is. He demonstrated what he learned by talking to me in French. He was already able to converse depending topics he chose, which is a far cry from before, where all he knew was random French words and phrases. It took him another week to get a decent grasp of the accents, and by the time he boarded the plane, he was already confident enough that he didn’t bother buying one of those tourist pocketbooks with useful French phrases.

Of course, I already knew how effective Rocket French is, due to my own experiences with it. However, I chalked up the exceptional performance of the program to me having a lot of free time and really wanting to learn French. I was a bit surprised that it worked so well for my friend, who is generally a very busy person, and did not really want to learn French and was just forced into it by time and circumstances.

Popularity: 19%

If you have read my introduction here, you’ll realise how I used the online course, which is called Rocket French. Now I must admit, when I decided I wanted to learn French, I wanted to do it as quick as possible, so I opted straight into buying a course, rather than learning how to speak French online for free.

This doesn’t of course mean you have to do the same but what I will say is this; I really don’t think I could have learned the language as quick as I did without Rocket French. This is mainly because Rocket French not only teaches you the words and phrases, it teaches you how to SPEAK the language. This is an absolute awesome feature because it allowed me to learn the correct grammar and pronunciation of the French language.

After all, there’s no point knowing all the words and phrases if you cannot actually speak them is there? No one will understand a word you’re saying!

I had heard of one course called Pimsleur but when I looked into it more closely, it was really expensive. When I say expensive it was like over $900 expensive! So I took the cheaper option and went for the online course instead.

OK, back to my review of Rocket French. Like I say, I wasn’t playing around I really wanted to learn French fast. So I bought the course and it gave me immediate access to the training area. So I download the guides and started to watch the video tutorials. I just couldn’t believe how quickly I started to speak French. Yes, I’m talking same day!

I’ll never forget when my husband came home from work and I welcomed him in French! He didn’t understand a word of what I was saying! OK, I’m not saying for a minute here that I learned the language in a day, it took me quite a few weeks but it got me started and I started to learn the basic phrases very quickly.

So I started listening to the 31 audio tutorials, just one each day, for the next month. I would practice the phrases on my husband each day when he came home, I think it annoyed him at first but he soon got used to it! I was learning everything from basic introduction phrases to more advanced tutorials of learning the exact pronunciations of the words.

The illustrated grammar lessons helped me personally to, as sometimes I have to see something written down to be able to memorize it completely.

Oh and did I mention the French games that come with the course? These were so much fun and we all enjoyed playing them. You don’t actually realise you are learning French at the same time as playing them.

So, all in all I would recommend Rocket French to anyone who not only wants to learn French quickly but also very fluently too.

Popularity: 51%

Bonjour!

My name is Jenny and the reason I have started this blog is to share my path to learning a foreign language, which in this case was French. The truth is, I didn’t even know why I wanted to learn French in the first place! I just wanted to do something completely different, I’m sure you have felt like that at some stage in your life, right?

Since the birth of our first child, I found I had a lot of spare time on my hands. My husband works a lot and all I was doing was looking after the house and our son Jack. I was watching a program on the TV and the person started to speak French and I thought to myself……WOW, wouldn’t it be great if I could do that too!

So I set myself a challenge and was so determined when I started, that nothing was going to deter me. I tried finding websites to learn from, which was OK but didn’t give me enough of a base to work with. I wanted more than basic phrases to learn, I wanted the whole she-bang! Like I say, when I start something, I won’t finish until I have achieved my target. We’re like that us women sometimes you know!

Anyway back to my story. I found a course on teaching French online and although I thought the money could be used better elsewhere, I took the plunge and ordered it. I managed to download it straight away, which was great because I immediately took action. I can honestly say I learned more in the first 20 minutes than I had for days. It was really easy to follow and nice and straight forward too. The course was called Rocket French and is available from that link.

If you’re like me and want to learn quick, then I recommend you take a real good look at Rocket French. I have even submitted my testimonial to them and will hopefully be appearing on the website soon. How good is that!

I hope I have managed to at least inspire you to take some action because believe me, if I can do something as daunting as learning a foreign language, then you have no excuses at all! I will be sharing some useful phrases and tips that helped me along the way, so please come back to this blog as often as you like. I truly hope you can manage to learn French as easily as I did because it is such a beautiful language.

Thanks for reading!

Popularity: 29%

If you’re looking to improve your French or learn from the beginning, then RocketFrench may well be your best option. It is a series of lessons which are available online for you to follow. It is by far one of the most comprehensive French courses that is available and the best thing about it is you can access it direct from the website.

The first part of RocketFrench consists of 31 interactive audio lessons which you listen to and learn from. They last for over 11 hours in total, so you should ideally just listen to one each day. This gives you more time to digest the information and you will find that you will learn quicker. These lessons will teach you the basics of introductions, expressions and pronunciations. If you don’t like listening to audios, then you can read the full transcriptions of them.

Continue Reading

Popularity: 19%