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When you study music on high school, college, music conservatory, you usually have to do ear training. Some of the exercises, like sight singing, is easy to do alone. But often you have to be at least two people, one making questions, the other answering.
This is ok, as long as both have time to do it. And if you sit in your room, practicing your instrument many hours a day, it can be nice to see other people :-) But my experience when I got my education, was that most people were very busy and that it was difficult to practise regularly. And to get really good results, you should practise a little almost every day. Not just a session before your next ear training lesson.
GNU Solfege tries to help out with this. With Solfege you can practise the more simple and mechanical exercises without the need to get others to help you. Just don't forget that this program only touches a part of the subject.
For the latest and greatest about Solfege, please check out www.solfege.org.
The tarball of stable releases is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/solfege/, and unstable releases from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/solfege/. Read more about CVS access here.
Binary packages and SRPMs are sometimes available from this page at Sourceforge.
Debian package for woody and sarge is only a
apt-get install solfegeaway.
Instead of 6,000+ words, it focuses only on the top 1,500 "high-yield" words.
| ❌ Don’t | ✅ Do | |----------|-------| | Memorize English translations without reading Japanese sentence | Read the Japanese sentence first, then check meaning | | Ignore pitch accent | At least notice the color coding – it builds intuition | | Blast through 30 new cards/day | 10–15 new cards max for retention >80% | | Skip audio | Listen every time (prosody matters) | | Suspend cards that are “too easy” | Let FSRS schedule them – they’ll space out naturally | anki kaishi 15k
means "start" or "beginning" in Japanese. The deck’s philosophy is simple: give the learner the first 1,500 words they will actually encounter in native media (anime, visual novels, news, YouTube) rather than textbook contrivances. Instead of 6,000+ words, it focuses only on
Every card and every sentence has high-quality native audio. This supports an audio-visual association method, training the ear to recognize the word immediately, rather than just visually recognizing the Kanji. Every card and every sentence has high-quality native audio