In this blog, Jake gives you 5 top tips on how to approach character learning for Chinese (or Japanese). This method will ensure the ultimate long term retention of characters and boost your vocabulary long-term.
Teaching Chinese and Japanese online with Skritter
With new COVID-19 updates coming out seemingly hourly, it feels like much of what we would have called normal last week or last month has come grinding to a halt. As communities globally practice social distancing and areas deploy “shelter in place” rules and regulations the ways we learn and teach are undergoing rapid changes.
Chinese Stroke Order Rules
We have made a free deck on the Skritter app that has been designed for complete beginners, and works through the 8 rules in a logical fashion, using characters from the top 100 most common …
How to Write Chinese or Japanese on your Apple Watch
If you own an Apple watch, and you’re learning a character-based language like Chinese or Japanese, the built-in handwriting feature on the Apple Watch is pretty great. In this blog, we’ll learn how to set it up and get started.
Climate Crisis Terms Part 1
Learn lots of useful and important terms about climate change and the environment in today’s mini-lesson. If you can talk about it, then you can spread awareness and do your bit.
Prayer Ritual in a Taoist Temple [Video Transcript]
In this lesson, Iona takes you on a tour of a temple in Taiwan and shows you some of the customs and traditions associated with prayer in Taoism [Daoism]. She also explains the concept of …
Cartoon Character Challenge #15
Below is an image of a scene, like a cartoon, however it’s made up using Kanji instead of drawings. The goal is to look at the image and figure out what is being shown by …
Skritter Mobile Update- 3.3.7
The latest Skritter Mobile app update (3.3.7 v300345) is out now and available for download on iOS and Android. What’s new? Added new Chinese audio for all syllables and tone readings mapped to all Chinese …
Learning Japanese through Music, Part 8: Pokemon theme song ポケモンOP１
Click here to see more of these posts! This series of posts covers Japanese songs, along with their lyrics, and translations so you can make sure you learn every word. For this one, let’s do the original …
Coronavirus Chinese Lesson
Late in 2019, and early 2020, a novel form of the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) started infecting the residents of Wuhan, a city of 11 million in central China. Within weeks, the epidemic spread across borders and …