Happy New Year

A new year has passed and I realize that I had a lot of objectives unfulfilled for the last year , and I wonder if reminiscing about them will bring any positive change . Learning from my mistakes is the best thing I can do for the moment . Honestly , even how much I tried to be positive , I was succumbed to the emotional states of people I was surrounded with , failing to seek the light in the darkest moments of time , I made reckless decisions that finally the one affected was not only me , but many other people I am very close to .

Happy New Year 

I want to speak about my new perception of life as a freethinker and I want to make it as short as possible as I want to elude any possible points of degrading my former religion . I am not an atheist as I believe in the existence of God but I also wonder on some observations that connect to the absence of God , therefore I take a stand as a deist believing in the existence of a supernatural power who does not intervene in fates of all creatures but rather allowing the natural world to run according to the laws of nature . Deism comes from the word "deus" , the Latin word for "God" , while atheism and theism are loaned  from Greek words of "atheos" and "theos" meaning "without God" and "God" respectively . This way I can lead my life without guilts and regrets and keep focusing in what I have always endeavoured .

Everyday I want to smile and give my full good feeling to the earth for the beautiful life still granted to me . I'll thank to God for everything that still stays by my side which without them , the flow of life will be quite complicated . This will generate the positive attitude inside me that will continuously go on till the rest of the day . For every emotional impulse , I will resist and give my whole lot to stick to optimism .

We can never change the way people behave , but we can always improve the way we respond to them . I will always remember this phrase that I've heard so much often . It is not as easy as that as it can be quite laborious depending on how grumpy we have been , I did not have it easy , but I dared to say , day by day I have improved a lot . This has to do with giving positive causes for what they do which require a degree of empathy there . Sometimes , reasoning and logics do come out of mind but emotional response is a bit tricky to hold from being expressed . We have to accept the fact that it has long been embedded in our subconscious mind that a particular event will trigger a particular emotional response . Time and effort are the only answers to reprogramme this neuronic pattern . Nevertheless , it is not about the result right but the process that we are going through towards any achievement .

I want to focus more on what I do and stick to it until I see the result . Having many more things to be done in this new month seem to whisper that I have to put more efforts and exert further discipline . It might be hard in maintaining the feeling of positive later , therefore more works are needed to improve my perception on my future circumstances . I'm not gonna describe them as it is more like telling that they will happen eventually though I think I'm quite confirmed that my improvisatory strategy will counteract them effectively . How confident !

Sorry for lacking posts last year and inadequate educational content in them , I'm still getting myself used with English as my native tongue is Malay thus it takes time for me to write because I've been spending a lot of time recently reading written English materials in improving my vocabulary so that reader will not be tired having read the same words again and again giving the feel that my opinions seem pointless haha ! For future post I would to review the book by John Medina published in 2008, Brain Rules : 12 Principles For Surviving And Thriving At Work , Home And School . Love that book , I bought it at Kinokuniya early of the last month around 3rd or 4th of December , or let's say here , last year hahah . Surely many people have read the book . 

German Language Enthusiasts

Knowing how influential the Germans are in the development of Classical and Modern Physics and the field of Nuclear Science that I delved myself into seemed to ignite my passion to learn their speech. So, I took two German classes for last year session, each level for each semester. For the first level, I registered very late and I first entered the class on the second week of October in 2013, it was on Monday as two days after, on Wednesday, a friend of mine came to deliver a book which I asked to buy to be used for the German class in which he gave for free. On February 2014, I started the second semester.

Learning the language was so much fun for me as I started to believe that I had a special liking to a highly structural language. I learnt how to pronounce German letters which I found quite similar to the way the Indonesians pronounce theirs, Trennbare Verben for two words that are combined to form a verb which later can be splitted when forming a sentence, the existence of three genders for pronouns or four if the plural form is considered a gender, the nouns and their spellings in plural usages, and well-known places in Germany and later it got harder as my lecturer started to emphasize more on grammatical rules in Level 2. Thinking of having a latent aptitude for language, I became the most active participant in the class and my lecturer grew fond of me for quite a degree back then.

Well due to job and holidays, I had become dissociated from the subject that I once hoped to continue to be tied with like forever. Honestly, I have always wished to go to Germany and further my study there, therefore mastering German is totally an advantage. But it can be perilous to open back the book and start all over again. So I searched the internet and looked for any software that I can possibly utilize to learn German in a way that will not bore me.

There is this site Rocket Languages that offers an educational software to assist people who are eager to learn foreign languages, to master their language of interest with fun and consistence. The CEO and co-founder of the website, Jason Oxenham claims they have reached 1,212,346 users from 196 countries worldwide since its establishment in 2004, been selected by PCMag as their Editors’ Choice for language learning and been conferred on with the 19^th annual Best Educational Software Award. 

The system to help people master German is the Rocket German and it does so through seven strategies applied in every level of progress known as Rocket Express Learning System® . Firstly the system accommodates your schedules. You can learn German during whatever activity you are currently doing whether you’re walking, heading to workplace, at the workplace, performing house chores or while getting rid some of the fats at gym. This is all possible through the availability of applications that come with every Rocket German course which are accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone.

Secondly, Rocket German will drive learners to explore the grammatical structures of German and explain in-depth the difference of German sentence structure to English.  German is highly structural, it is imperative to understand how particular words are arranged in a particular sentence form. Thirdly, the reinforcement of what you have learnt under consistent basis. It has the Testing feature where their scientifically-designed testing algorithm re-displays words and phrases that you are weak on to become deeply embedded in your brain, which enables easy recalls whenever you’re going to need to use them in conversation.

The fourth success strategy is the provision of Rocket Record that allows you to record yourself saying any of the thousands of German words and phrases in Rocket German. Pronouncing out loud words or phrases will activate key areas of your brain to further reinforce the new connections that are being made as you learn German. Rocket Record also acts as a voice comparison tool to enhance your pronunciation and accent. Essentially, this is practical in acquiring the native tongue.

Fifthly, Rocket German uses the strategy of “Shadowing”, a hyperglot method devised by Alexander Arguelles and he himself is a hyperglot. A hyperglot is someone who masters six or more languages meanwhile a polygot is someone who masters three to five languages, the more commonly known term. Basically it is just about listening to recorded dialogues and repeating them simultaneously and verbatim, and Rocket German provides audio tracks for the purpose which are downloadable. The aim is to get to used to the words of German without necessarily understanding the meanings first by encoding the gist of them in your subconscious mind. This technique is similar to the way we learnt our mother tongue, by repeating sounds exactly as you hear them. In the end, you are able to master colloquial speech, accent and intonations of German language.

The sixth strategy is, the system also provides an interactive forum of unlimited 24/7 lifetime online access constituting a team of German teachers, native speaker and German enthusiasts who will answer all your German language questions. As a basis for consistency, it is of utmost importance to keep ourselves motivated and to actively being improved. We might have found ourselves getting engaged in doing something that literally excites us that we virtually have an inability to focus on anything else. Therefore Rocket Express Learning System® has been designed to include a whole range of activities and features that will keep you engaged, motivated, and on track such as Progress Tracking, Rating System to rate how well you know, words, phrases, and lessons, Badges, Points and Leader board to keep you motivated and coming back for more, Phrase Finder to find words and phrases within different contexts throughout the course, My Vocab to store any difficult to remember vocabulary, and many more. The system will consistently upgrade their features and none of them will be charged.

Compared to other software packages that cost more than $500, Rocket German costs only $259.90 covering full access to all three levels. It turns out to be less than $1 per one hour of tuition. I never tried a learning software before, I think this might be just one. I have just registered for a free trial that will last for six days. 

If you are interested to know more, you can access the information through this site,

Rocket German

Hopefully this will help anyone who wants to learn German out there :-)