If you want to have better Chinese conversations, the following 5 phrases will help you achieve your goal. Having these in your language arsenal will be helpful when someone either speaks too quickly, or you’re …
A Guide to Japanese Grammar: 4
の as a particle の can be used as a possessive particle, like how we use “‘s” to show that something belongs to someone. For example, Susan‘s bag. Or, Ken‘s car. Examples of using の …
Godzilla: King of the Monsters in Chinese
This blog is part of the Skritter Movie Posters in Chinese series. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (released as Godzilla II: King of the Monsters in some markets) is the 2019 sequel to the recent …
X-Men: Dark Phoenix in Chinese
Dark Phoenix is the 12th installment of the X-Men film franchise. The movie centers around Jean Grey who gets hit by a solar flare during a space rescue mission and loses control of her abilities, …
A guide to Japanese Grammar: 3
The last lesson covered い adjectives, now let’s get into another type of adjective– な adjectives, and then switch topics to another grammar point covering how to say you are “just about” to do something, …
3.2 Beta Update
We’re rolling out a big performance update for the Skritter: Write Chinese and Skritter: Write Japanese mobile beta apps! The update is already available to beta testers on Android and has been submitted to Apple …
A guide to Japanese Grammar: 2
In the first lesson, we learned how to say “Is” and “Is not”. Now let’s learn how to say “Was” and “Was not”, along with some new verbs, adjectives, and how to conjugate them! You …
A guide to Japanese Grammar: 1
Polite form, plain form, and “is” and “is not” Japanese is spoken in a polite form, or a plain form, depending on politeness levels and who you are speaking to. As a basic example, if …
Board Game words and phrases in Chinese
In this video post, we’ll teach you some common words and phrases to help you get playing board games in Chinese with your friends. Playing board games is excellent for Chinese learning for the following …
Olle learns Japanese, part 1: Hiragana
Looking back, I could have learnt Japanese instead of Chinese. After all, I practised Judo and Jujutsu for many years, I watched at least a hundred hours of anime (favourites are Ghost in the Shell …