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 …
Trace your errors to the source
When you review characters and end up writing the wrong one, don’t just tap “next”. Trace the error to the source! Finding out why you wrote the wrong character can help you prevent it from happening again.
Hacking the most difficult Chinese characters (13-15)
This article discusses difficult characters in Chinese in order to help you learn them. It’s the fifth article in our series and deals with three characters is the 1500 frequency range： 叛， 沈 and 凝.
Japanese Pitch Accent
It’s commonly known Chinese has tones, (it can be one of the larger struggles of learning the language). While Japanese doesn’t use tones, there is however a stress or pitch accent. Pitch accent is where …
Japanese Animal Sounds
Have you ever wondered if the noises animals make are perceived differently by people in other parts of the world? It’s something you might not think about until visiting another country or studying a different …
Why writing helps you remember better than reading
Writing helps you remember Chinese characters and Japanese kanji better than reading does because is forces deeper processing.