In a way, learning characters is easy. When you know roughly how characters work and how they are composed, learning a new character is not hard. The difficulty comes from the large number of steps …
Pokémon GO: Skritter！君に決めた！
Everything you need to know to play Pokémon GO in Japanese, including using the interface, the names of the pokémons and word lists so you can catch all the vocabulary in Skritter! Happy hunting!
Skritter’s new look and a call for feedback!
The new version of our website is here! Skritter 2.0 is an new application that will enable us to build an even better program for language learning. To help us better understand what you want, we would appreciate it very much if you could take the short survey included in this post!
Japanese character challenges, July 2016
In a way, learning characters is easy. When you know roughly how characters work and how they are composed, learning a new character is not hard. The difficulty comes from the large number of steps …
How Japanese has changed over time
All living languages are evolving, and it’s likely accelerating as the world grows. Languages often adopt words from other languages, maybe a “mistake” is used so much it starts to become acceptable use, certain expressions …
Chinese character challenges, July 2016
Test your Chinese character knowledge and improve your ability to compare and contrast characters with these challenges!
Should you learn simplified or traditional Chinese?
There are two sets of Chinese characters: simplified and traditional. Which you should learn depends mostly on practical consideration such as where you want to use your Chinese, but in the long run, the choice is not very important.
Test your knowledge and wit with Skritter character challenges
Do you know some characters? Are you up for a challenge? Starting with this post, we will run monthly character challenges for Chinese and Japanese. These are meant to help you learn characters in a …
Yakuwarigo （役割語）
If you’re studying Japanese, you’re probably already familiar with the concept of yakuwarigo （役割語）, however you might not have known it’s name. Yakuwarigo is used in writing, but can also be heard in some Anime …
Writing characters in Skritter with a pen
Using Skritter with a pen used to be expensive, but it can now be done for free or for a few bucks. This is both fun and likely to lead to better results too!