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| I Am Steve Newbie United States Joined 4928 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes Studies: French | Message 1 of 9 30 May 2011 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Strange, but there's no mention of the Rocket language course around here. I remember
signing up for the 6 day free trial. It was a private webpage with a load of audio French tutorials, but it of course became inaccessible after 6 days (I don't know how you were supposed to cover all that content in that short amount of time, but I guess you weren't meant to). The audios I did listen to had a male and female instructor... the male was the main teacher and narrator, while the female spoke only the French portions. The guy implemented a lot of humor into it. Anyone have a review of the actual pay course? Edited by I Am Steve on 30 May 2011 at 8:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 9 30 May 2011 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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The search engine here is awkward, but if you do a search, plenty of hits come up from people who have used the program:
Search results In any case, try using G-search in stead of Text search. You'll get better results. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| I Am Steve Newbie United States Joined 4928 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 9 30 May 2011 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oooh, all right. Thanks.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 4 of 9 30 May 2011 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are Fluenz and Rocket associated in any way? I ask only because the marketing seems to be similar in terms of linking to all sorts of unusual sites in unusual ways,and some of internet marketing just seems a little sleazy.
I believe we have had posters pop up before just to promote these products in the past. Steve, I am not assuming this of you of course, although I note you have posted four times in one day, all relating to either Fluenz and Rocket. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| I Am Steve Newbie United States Joined 4928 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes Studies: French | Message 5 of 9 30 May 2011 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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There's little I can say to put you at ease, except that I plan to stick around for a
while. Walking advertisements, in my experience, always drop off the map after about 5-10 posts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5418 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 6 of 9 30 May 2011 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have to say I am beginning to suspect Rocket Languages do indulge in dishonest
advertising practices. I had created a thread highlighting how there were several youtube channels advertising Rocket Languages products where they had stolen a video from another youtube user and used it for advertising purposes and Rocket Languages responded by saying it was due to one of their affiliates and that Rocket Languages would give them a stern word. Weeks later I see that these same youtube sites are still there. If Rocket Languages want to maintain a reasonable reputation, they should stamp this kind of thing out if their affiliates are doing dishonest things. I had to chuckle when I saw a video that one of these channels had stolen of a woman comparing different Spanish products and said they thought the Learning Spanish Like Crazy program was much better than Rocket Spanish, while on the screen it advertises Rocket Spanish... No doubt Rocket Languages will see this thread and comment but if they are telling the truth about their affiliate doing this without their knowledge, they should tell them to delete all these channels asap. They are not difficult to find. Edit: @ Steve: I am not suggesting that I think you are working for Rocket Languages though, just that I suspect them of dodgy practices. Edited by jazzboy.bebop on 30 May 2011 at 10:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 7 of 9 31 May 2011 at 12:22am | IP Logged | ||
Ah, but here's how it goes. Rocket Languages don't own the websites containing these links, so can't take the material down. All Rocket Languages can do is close the affiliate account for violation of the Ts&Cs, so the affiliate doesn't get any more money. But -- oh, look! The links are still there! Whoops, that means Rocket still get the sale... and don't have to pay commission! What an unlucky coincidence! But this isn't just Rocket -- I believe most companies will still accept an affiliate referral URL after the account is closed. As yet, I don't think there's been any legal judgements stating that accepting these referrals after notification of the breach of Ts&Cs makes a company complicit in their actions. Although it would be an interesting test case. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5418 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 8 of 9 31 May 2011 at 12:44am | IP Logged | ||
Indeed, Rocket Languages do not own the websites of the affiliate involved and can't force them to take their sites down, however what I am talking about is the actual youtube content which is in violation of youtube's own T&Cs. If Rocket Languages were worried about their reputation, perhaps they could at least find out what the relevant channel names on youtube were and then send a request to youtube to have these taken down as they are quite blatantly using stolen videos from other youtube users and the original videos are not difficult to track down. So basically, they don't seem to care. They are quite happy to leave these channels alone when they can easily have them taken down. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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