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Word families in Lute

In language learning, a “word family” is a group of words that are based on a common word. For example, in English, the word “hospital” could be in a family like “hospital, hospitalize, hospitable, inhospitable, hospitality …” etc, ignoring conjugations. In Spanish, “sondar” (to sound, as in measure depth) could be in a family “sondar, sondear, sonda, insondable, sondaje …”. As I read more, I see more connections between words that are similar forms. It would be nice if Lute supported such a thing.

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My approach to the Van Hemert System Volume 2

For the past few months, I’ve been working on Volume 2 of the Van Hemert System for learning Gypsy Jazz guitar. I managed to work through the seven chapters rather quickly, and so am sharing my approach in hopes that it helps others in their practice.

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Lute general plan (Feb 2024)

Lute’s going well.

I’m not using Lute enough myself, so I’m losing a feel for what’s lacking as an end user, but that’s ok. At some point that will change.

In addition to the regular “keep the lights on work” – bug fixes and usability changes – there are a few larger items that should be dealt with.

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How it's going

Lute v3 has been going great! Users seem to like it, the install is so much easier than it was, and some people have made some great contributions, notably an audio player.

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Lute v3 launch thoughts

Lute v3 launched today. Wow, that was a lot of work, so nice to have it done.

Everything seems to be in order. Some final bugs and tweaks, several test runs. Release process updated. New pip and docker stuff pushed. Manual updated. User communication done.

I wonder if this thing will take off as much as I think it should. Guess it’s time to hurry up and wait.

In the meantime, I deserve a break.