When Skritter set out to find bloggers to help cover the Skritter Chinese iOS app release we were absolutely blown away by how much amazing content there is surrounding Chinese language-learning and culture. As a token of …
Context based learning
I can say a few simple phrases in Japanese that I have picked up over the years, but other than the three months of Japanese I took in 7th grade (nearly 17 years ago), I …
Skritter is Hiring: Remote Scholar
Want to work part-time from anywhere in the world while helping to curate the ever-expanding Skritter content database, helping Skritter users with their questions, and enjoying massive work flexibility? You should work for Skritter. Chris …
Skritter Chinese iOS App: First Month
We launched the Skritter Chinese iOS app a month ago, so we thought we’d share a few tidbit stats as to how the app is doing so far. Skritter usage has almost doubled. Not what …
Stroke Order is Important
About eight months ago I got it into my head to revamp the stroke order research that I had done back when we founded Skritter in 2008. Not only was my research incomplete (some thorny …
iPhone App Bug Fixed!
As Nick mentioned in his post last week, we introduced a pretty crippling bug into the first version of the Skritter iPhone app: every new user (anyone that hadn’t installed one of the beta builds) …
Skritter Chinese iOS App Launched
Chinese app icon 19 months ago, we started. We hacked for 3000 hours, sending out 87 builds to 78 testers, who spent 4491 hours and sent 2236 feedback emails while testing it, leading us to …
3 fun ways to practice your Hanzi
Got a few moments to spare between class, or during those weekly meetings? Love doing Sudoku, but wish there was something similar for practicing Chinese characters? This week the Skritter blog is all about sharing fun ways …
Breakfast Shop Diary (Part 2): The cab driver chronicle
It’s true… I love the breakfast shop across the street from my apartment. I know that from the moment I sit down for breakfast I’m no longer just another laowai hanging out in Taipei; an unknown entity living …
Breakfast Shop Diary (Part 1)
Walking out of my apartment I head for 吉美早餐 (jí měi zǎo cān), one of my neighborhood’s best breakfast shops. As I head across the street to the small corner store I begin to hear …