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Here’s a question I received the other day about using Rocket French – do you need a headset to use it effectively ? This post will be short and hopefully sweet for people interested in knowing more about this learn French language course.

The course has recently added a pronunciation tool that they call Rocket Record. This tool presents a graphical representation of a native French speaker saying a word or phrase. There is an option for you to record your own attempt at saying the word or phrase and a graphical display of this is shown. As you can see, I need to improve my pronunciation of “the apple”.

Must Try Harder - Synching your voice with the French speaker can be difficult !

All dialogs and vocabulary presented in the course have an option to Rocket Record your pronunciation against a native French speaker. So if you want to use this tool to improve your pronunciation and get the most out of the Rocket French course, then you definitely need headphones and some kind of microphone. These could be separate pieces of hardware or you could combine the two in the form of a headset. So yes, you do need a headset if this is how you plan to use the Rocket French course. But if you already have headphones and a microphone then you don’t need a headset.

Other than that, the rest of the course, like the audio can be listened to from your computer provided it has speakers or you could download the audios and listen to them on an mp3 player. The rest of the course can be viewed via your computer – the grammar and culture course, the forum, the tests and the motivational aspects of the course.

The Mega games can be played on a PC and even a mac and you need speakers to play the Mega Audio   game.