When one decides to learn Spanish, there are many ways to do so. There are many self study courses that will teach you how to learn Spanish, Some are good and some are not so good. These courses give you the freedom to study what you want when you want. It sounds great that you have no evening classes to disturb you between the work and a busy social life, but the only problem with too much freedom is lack of focus.

Rocket Spanish is a product made by the Rocket Languages Company which also makes many other language learning courses. Rocket Spanish have tried to combine a lot of different teaching methods into the one package and also have an audio course of 20-30 minute lessons. The lessons deal with basic Spanish language in situation of any occasion.Where as Rosetta Stone: The Rosetta Stone course uses the method quite an advanced level. It is not simply vocabulary recognition but quite elaborate sentences along the subject verb object formulation. Its main approach to teaching is called "Dynamic Immersion" in which they use visual and audio interactive games to learn the material.

Two self study courses are the Rocket Spanish course and the Rosetta Stone Spanish course. This article will compare the two in terms of how they motivate a student and how they keep the student coming back for more.

First of all, I’d like to say that there is no comparison between the two products in terms of the way they teach you Spanish.

Rosetta Spanish takes the approach that the best way to learn a language is to learn it as you did your native language.

Rosetta Stone: works like this. A lesson will consist of a series of questions. Each question would consist of 4 images/photographs and a button that can be pressed to hear audio. The audio would be either naming the image or describing what was occurring in the image. It is then your task to select the image that corresponds to the audio. You would go through the whole lesson, that would be on a particular theme, say colors. At the end of the lesson you would be given a mark on how many questions you got right. If you got all the questions right you could advance onto a harder level.

They also use the same method for recognizing written words, practice writing and have a way to analyze your speech patterns to help improve your accent. The number of lessons is vast and will take you to an advanced level but you have to buy the complete set of 3 courses to get to this level.

Rocket Spanish is a bit different in it’s learning approach.

I think Rocket Spanish have tried to combine a lot of different teaching methods into the one package. Thus they have an audio course of 31 20-30 minute lessons. The lessons deal with basic Spanish through to everyday situations like a birthday party.

The audio follows the narrator, a native English speaker and her native Spanish speaking friend. The English speaker introduces the lesson and goes over concepts in the lesson. The Spanish speaker speaks the Spanish parts. You are encouraged to say the words or sentences after him aloud. Each lesson ends with the narrator asking you questions. You are given time to say them aloud and then the Spanish speaker gives an answer.

Choosing the right program for you will depend on many factors. Both programs are well known for teaching the language and helping users to get Spanish and the concepts of the language so regardless of which one you choose, you will enjoy the excitement of learning a new language for day to day use. So, why dont you start with spanish.