Hello and welcome to another installment of the Skritter blog. This week I wanted to share five quick and easy tips that beginners can use to make the most out of the first few months …

Learning is a very personal experience. There are many methods, approaches and strategies for getting stuff into your brain and keeping it there, and their effectivenesses vary from person to person. When we set out …

Wabi-sabi 侘び寂び（わびさび）is embracing the beauty found in simplicity, and things that are sometimes flawed, damaged, or incomplete. It’s an aesthetic philosophy originally derived from Zen Buddhism. The concept of 侘び寂び is said to be difficult …

 Welcome to the weekly Skritter blog! This week we’ll be kicking off our “Dear Skritter” column and looking into questions readers like you have about learning Mandarin and Japanese. I’m sorry to say this, but …

With the start of a new semester quickly approaching, or already in full swing,  we wanted to take a moment and share some new Groups features that are now live on the site. With more …

こんにちは fellow (Japanese-learning) Skritterers! This is a quick blog post just to let you all know that there is a new “Skritter Japanese 201” list now available for study.  If you haven’t studied the 101 …

I’ve been doing a lot of traveling the past few weeks and it got me to thinking, how much interaction are we missing out on because of heavy reliance on smart devices? Also, what impact …

While for most westerners it’s not uncommon to have no idea what their own blood type is, in Japan almost everyone knows theirs. Japanese Wikipedia includes blood type when listing information on celebrities, as well …