Chinese and Japanese learners unite. This character challenge works for both languages! **EDIT** Whoops! This challenge will really only work for Japanese due to one character (机) not translating the same way in Chinese as …
Skritter Dev Notes: April ’17
Hi Skritterers! (What do we call ourselves? Skritterians? Skritter人?) We just updated the website and released a new Android beta. We tried to focus on visible changes in addition to our ongoing backend work. Our …
Why you shouldn’t study single kanji in Japanese (when it’s not a high frequency word)
Here is a question from a fellow Skritterer, regarding the definition for 界: Shouldn’t the description “border, boundary, mental state” be for 境, not 界? They both have the same reading of “さかい” but the only …
Kanji/Hanzi Cartoon Character Challenge #2
Chinese and Japanese learners unite. This character challenge works for both languages! Below is an image of a scene, however it’s made up using Chinese characters only. The goal is to look at the image, and to …
Kanji/Hanzi Cartoon Character Challenge #1
Chinese and Japanese learners unite. This character challenge works for both languages! Below is an image of a scene, however it’s made up using Chinese characters only. The goal is to look at the image, and to …
Japanese Proverbs: ことわざ (kotowaza)
Japanese is a language filled with a ton of ことわざ (諺), or “kotowaza”, meaning “proverbs”. They can take on different forms– some are 四字熟語 (よじじゅくご) or “Yojijukugo”, which translates to “four character idiom”, while others …
Learning Japanese through Music, Part 2: Tokyo Ska Paradise: 美しく燃える森
Often times the best study tactic is the one you enjoy most. Music is an incredible way to study a language without feeling like you’re “studying”, and songs have the tendency to get stuck in people’s …
Win a free month of Skritter! Japanese character challenges, January 2017
Unlike previous challenges, this challenge will not reveal the answers. Instead, you can email the answers to team@skritter.com and win a free month of Skritter subscription time. (If your answers are correct)! Deadline is 2/28/2017.
The new Android beta is here!
2016 is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with work quite yet. Today we’re proud to announce the beta release of our new Android app! Learn what’s new and how you …
Chinese character challenges, December 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 …