Learn Japanese Online Fast

I live in Japan and can speak, read and write Japanese well. I have been living here for 13 years, though and it wasn't easy for me to learn Japanese in the early stages. The methods that you will find in Rocket Japanese are tried and true methods that will have even the newest of Japanese Learners speaking Japanese in no time at all.

I personally believe that the key to why Rocket Japanese is so much more successful than most others has a lot to do with the way that they teach their students. They don't just teach you vocabulary and phrases they teach you 'how' the sentences are made up, 'Why' the sentence structure is different, and they don't overload your brain by teaching you lots of words.

It is the real difference between learning Japanese and remembering Japanese!

The other feature I love about Rocket Japanese is their built in software learning games. These are great programs that use pictures and audio to teach and test your vocabulary, writing and grammar in a fun interactive way. They use images and audio clips and no other Japanese course I looked at had these extra vocabulary building software games included.

The reason I think this aspect of Rocket is so good is that they teach you both grammar and vocabulary in a nicely balanced way so that you learn quickly and other courses don't do this. A lot of courses either bog you down in boring grammar lessons or just get you memorising loads of words and you end up knowing plenty of words, but are not able to speak Japanese in conversation. Where as Rocket Japanese get you speaking straight away.

Finally Rocket Japanese has the online support in their very active forum, which is brilliant, and no I don't mean for technical help but for actual Japanese help. When you need to ask a question about a topic or lesson you can use this feature.

One slight negative of the Rocket Japanese course is that it does not focus on writing Japanese as much as one would like it to, after all it is designed to have you speaking quicker, not writing quicker.
They do teach the Japanese writing systems of which there are THREE, however the main focus is on speaking before being able to write and read the language.