I recently bought Trope Trainer (Kinnor Software Inc) to help me learn torah portions. I'm learning my first one with it now. It's great! ( allow me to be more specific... )
Does it handle the "American Triennial Cycle" (read one third of the parsha one year, the second third the next, etc.)?
Also, for the names of the tropes, what you need to do is find the list of all the names of the tropes, and chant it. (Conveniently, the name of each trope mark is read with that same mark. Kinda like onomotopeia.) I can still sing one fragment of the trope list I learned in sixth grade from memory.
It handles the triennial cycle, yes. Actually, there's a toggle for Israeli/Diaspora calendar, and separately there's a check box for triennial cycle, so I suppose it also supports Israeli triennial. I don't know if anyone does that, but it appears to be supported.
Also, for the names of the tropes, what you need to do is find the list of all the names of the tropes, and chant it.
Actually, I have that -- the cheat sheets in the back of my trope book that show the musical notation for all the phrases do it that way. But I just haven't brought myself to putting in the effort to memorize the names -- I guess my hind-brain is saying "why do you care about knowing the names when it's knowing the symbols that's important?". The only one I have memorized is the basic et-nachta clause (mercha tifchah munach et-nachta [sof-pasuk]). With the software I may get this "for free", as a side effect. We'll see. :-)
I guess my hind-brain is saying "why do you care about knowing the names when it's knowing the symbols that's important?"
An experiment was recently done with infants (toddlers?), where a goodie was placed under one of three up-ended cups (shell-game style). The cup under which the goodie was was always the red cup.
They taught half the kids the word "red" and its meaning. They did not point out the correspondence of "red" to "goodie", they just taught the kid the color name.
Then they clocked how fast the kids found the goodie under the cup.
The kids who knew the word "red" and what it stood for were dramatically faster at finding the goodie. h
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Also, for the names of the tropes, what you need to do is find the list of all the names of the tropes, and chant it. (Conveniently, the name of each trope mark is read with that same mark. Kinda like onomotopeia.) I can still sing one fragment of the trope list I learned in sixth grade from memory.
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Also, for the names of the tropes, what you need to do is find the list of all the names of the tropes, and chant it.
Actually, I have that -- the cheat sheets in the back of my trope book that show the musical notation for all the phrases do it that way. But I just haven't brought myself to putting in the effort to memorize the names -- I guess my hind-brain is saying "why do you care about knowing the names when it's knowing the symbols that's important?". The only one I have memorized is the basic et-nachta clause (mercha tifchah munach et-nachta [sof-pasuk]). With the software I may get this "for free", as a side effect. We'll see. :-)
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An experiment was recently done with infants (toddlers?), where a goodie was placed under one of three up-ended cups (shell-game style). The cup under which the goodie was was always the red cup.
They taught half the kids the word "red" and its meaning. They did not point out the correspondence of "red" to "goodie", they just taught the kid the color name.
Then they clocked how fast the kids found the goodie under the cup.
The kids who knew the word "red" and what it stood for were dramatically faster at finding the goodie.
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