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 …
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 …