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!
Japanese Dialects and Languages
We look closer at different dialects and languages in Japan, including Hokkaido-ben and Osaka-ben as well as Okinawan and Ainu languages.
Skritter’s New Team Member: Michael Prokopchuk
We at Skritter work hard to provide the best app for learning Chinese and Japanese. While we are happy to have helped tens of thousands of students to learn characters over the years, there are …
Level up your Japanese speaking and listening ability
Skritter teaches you to read and write, an extremely important ability that will both boost your understanding of the language and of course greatly improve writing and reading proficiency. However that just isn’t enough to …
How digital reading can help you learn Chinese
Digital reading is great for Chinese learners! It helps you spend the time where it matters, not frustrated by not finding the word you want to look up in a dictionary.
Kentaro Monogatari: ケンタロウの物語
Japan is a land full of folktales and fairy tales, called 物語 or monogatari. Some of them are quite common and almost everyday references, whether it be an Okappa (a mythical water creature) printed on …