Learning how to say “but” and “however” In this lesson, let’s learn how to say “but” or “however”. There are different ways to do this, however let’s start with using が. If you’ve been following …
A guide to Japanese Grammar: 6 (Expressing desire and intent)
This lesson will go over desire and intent. After this, you will know how to say you want something, intend to do something, or expect something! Learning how to express wants using 欲しい and ~たい …
Skritter mobile beta updates (3.2.1 version 300241)
Summer is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, and we’ve been putting these endless summer days to good use working on and testing the latest Skritter: Write Chinese and Skritter: Write Japanese mobile beta …
A Guide to Japanese Grammar: 5 (Linking objects and counters)
Linking objects together (と、や、など) と is used similar to the way we use “and” in English. As an example, “dogs and cats” would be: 犬と猫いぬとねこdogs and cats や is used as a particle to represent …
5 Phrases to Have Better Conversations in Chinese.
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, asking please, and る verbs)
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 (な adjectives, ～ところ, and turning い adjectives into nouns)
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 …