Rocket German Community

Any plans to expand the course? What I have really liked thus far from Rocket is the upbeat manner of the Nick and Paul. Ive got several other courses on CD and they are all kinda formal and boring. And please expand the course, bitte.

Thank you for your nice feedback. We will work on it

The course is excellent, I am coming on leaps and bounds, but like cur1611 I would like to see the course expanded. I don't know about other members but I certainly wouldn't mind paying a small fee (Emphasis on the small ) for each added lesson to the course.
Say for example you produced a good lesson based around the 'Clock' and telling the time and then individuals could pay to download that.
(P.S. That was just an example, I haven't completed the course yet so It may be that there is a lesson about telling the time already included)

I agree!

Based on the experience of my recent trip to Germany, I would like lessons on the following topics:

1. The typical announcements that one might hear on the trains. For example, we finally figured out that the announcement was saying "please get off on the right (or left)", but we really didn't understand it clearly (and yes, this was on a train with clear pre-recorded announcements).

2. More on the typical foods on a restaurant menu.

3. Information on warning words/signs. Like, "gefahr" (which we didn't know) has nothing to do with "fahren" (which we did know). We took a lot of photos of such signs, and then translated them when we got back to our computers (yeah, perhaps we could have hauled out the paper dictionary, but we were backpacking!)

Other tidbits (non-language-related) that could be discussed include:
1. Tipping
2. Garbage disposal, recycling, etc.

Food for thought!

Judy

Hi Judy,

thank you for all the feedback and ideas. That's great! I will pass it on to the German team.

In the meantime you might like to have a look at the short list of emergency words on our site:
http://www.rocketlanguages.com/german/f ... rgency.php

Here are some additional phrases that you can use in a restaurant:
http://www.rocketlanguages.com/german/f ... orbill.php

How to ask for the time:
http://www.rocketlanguages.com/german/free/time.php

Thank you!

yeah i totally agree with the course expansion. what do ya say Nathalie? any possibilities for a Rocket German Level II in the future?

Cheers

hey all,

yes, we are actually working on a course extension at the moment. I will keep you updated.

yehhhhhhhh, good to know.


Cheers

Hi everyone,

I would like to know from you guys what topics you are most interested in for our course expansion. We will cover the topics that Judywan mentioned in her post above, but if you have any additional ideas and wishes please let us know!
Thanks!

I have actually not completed the course yet, (finishing Rocket Spanish up) but from looking through the description of each interactive audio course from the “Rocket German Home Page”, here are my suggestions (sorry if you covered any of these already):


Complaints/Arguing
Commands
Hobbies/Common Interests
Music
Health/At the doctor (aches, pains)
More on past, future verbs
Occupations
Street life/Slang
Nightlife
Talking with other travelers
More on Clothing (It doesn’t fit, too big, too small, do you have it in size ….)
Toiletries
Camping/Hiking (very popular in Germany I believe)
Festivals/Holidays



Well that’s just a rough draft I came up with, tell me which ones you guys liked or if any…………

Cheers

That's a good list, thanks for that. Just keep the ideas coming...

Hi Nathalie
The thing I think will be difficult for me will be using different tenses and knowing a bit more about the use of dative and genitive endings.
Alec

Hi Alec,
Thanks for that, good idea.
It's important to know I guess, so we will focus on that as well.
Cheers

Everything going well we should have another (advanced) Interactive Audio Course with 31 lessons ready by the end of March 2008.
Something to look forward to.

Ja.
Ganz Klar!