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, …
Skritter Dev Notes: May ’17
Hi Skritizens, it’s been a couple weeks since the last update. We recently released a new Android Beta and updated the website. Here are some highlights of what’s new since the last notes (assume the …
Kanji/Hanzi Cartoon Character Challenge #4
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, …
Kanji/Hanzi Cartoon Character Challenge #3
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 …