What is the main reason for students and adults to go out of their way to learn a language?  Besides acquiring needed credits for school, the ultimate reason is to be able to communicate with someone who fluently speaks the language already.  Whether it is for going on a vacation or doing business with customers who do not speak English, if one wants to learn the language, it will only be beneficial if they can carry out a conversation.

Most basic Spanish courses are structured to drill in hundreds of vocabulary words and verb tenses, but what good is it if there is only minimal practice putting those words into conversation?  Rocket Spanish and the other Rocket Language Programs focus on conversational learning as their method when teaching the language.

Many products on the market do not use this technique, which puts Rocket Spanish one step ahead of the game.  Instead of taking months to learn unnecessary vocabulary, they start the consumer with conversations immediately in the first lesson.  While learning the conversations the narrators pick apart the sentence structure and words used.  The listener is able to answer questions asked in full sentences, which start out basic and get increasingly difficult, as new lessons are introduced. 

The conversations and dialogue performed by Spanish speakers is the perfect way for someone to become adjusted to how a conversation should sound between two people.  The conversations are not just spoken aloud but they are also written so the consumer can become familiar with how the words are spelled and where accent marks go.  They can compare the English conversation with the Spanish conversation to notice how sentence structure differs between the two.

Anyone can learn vocabulary by flashcards and memorization but with Rocket Spanish’s conversational learning tools, grammar is just as important. 

The only way to display how grammar works in a language is to put a sentence together to demonstrate the right way.  Rocket Spanish takes it one step further and puts the sentences together to form a conversation.  It is the ultimate way to learn Spanish, becoming fluent quicker than ever.

All of the testimonials are proof that Rocket Spanish succeeds because of its conversational learning methods.  Every person relates his or her success with the language because they can now carry out a conversation with someone who speaks little or no English.  To master a language is not to mention a few words and act them out hoping that the other will understand, it is to be able to speak just as one would in English, comprehending and following the rules of the language.

Mini-Lesson: Spanish Adjectives

To help with grammar when beginning to learn Spanish, it is important to know about the role of adjectives. Adjectives in Spanish are words that describe the noun, just like the English language, but there are a few differences.  In Spanish, adjectives change their form depending on the noun’s gender, and if the noun is singular or plural. 

An example is as follows:

The ruler is la regla in Spanish. It is feminine because is has a la in the front and ends in -a.  For the most part nouns ending in -o will be masculine and nouns ending in -a will be feminine, of course there are always some exceptions. 

The ruler (la regla) is singular and feminine, when adding an adjective (lets take red or rojo in Spanish) and adding it to the description of the pen (the red pen) rojo will change to roja, and the red pen is translated to la regla roja.  If there were to be multiple red pens, the phrase would change to las reglas rojas. 

Some key points to always remember are that adjectives that end in -o will have four forms: rojo, roja, rojos, rojas.  If an adjective ends in –e it will just change depending on a singular or plural noun: (intelligent) inteligente or inteligentes.  Words that end in a consonant have just a singular and plural form as well.