How do you guys learn solfege?

I suppose you learn solfege just like you would learn anything else?

Are you interested in standing solfege or movable solfege?

John

i dont know what any of those is??

I just want to know how to know pitches and how to sight sing

you could start by purchasing a solfege/sight singing book or borrowing it from someone. You don't necessarily have to use the solfege syllables(do re me fa sol la ti do) to sight sing. You could use one syllable for the whole exercise if you wanted to. Start with easy stuff with maybe 2 or 3 notes. If you play another instruments, give yourself the starting pitch and try to figure out the intervals(major third, minor fifth etc.) between the two notes before you sing them. If possible find someone who can help you on a regular basis.

do you guys know any good sight singing/solfege books?

Here we usually learn solfege at music schools.

To sight-sing it may take you about three years or more, but it depends a lot on your ability.

For singing only, (not the same in the case of instrument playing), the main thing is to learn the intervals, recognise them quickly and sing them in proper tune and time. It is not easy.

Singers should learn at least two clefs (G and F) because these two are widely used in written music for singers. But I have seen also music in C clef.

Are you just interested in sight reading? If so, I would learn musical notation. It looks really complicated- just like Shakespeare- but you can buy flash cards and memorize different notes. It REALLY pays off.

Think of solfege as akin to sign language- teaching yourself to do a solfege scale is like teaching yourself the alphabet in sign language. Once you have the alphabet, you start learning the words- once you have the whole-step scale down, you can start learning more complicated stuff.