As things currently stand, the progress page and its numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. Skritter tracks two things separately: How well you know each individual item currently and How much you …
Skritter iPhone App Teaser
It’s been one year since we announced the development of the Skritter iPhone app. That’s a long time to wait! That post is still getting comments–151 and counting–so we know you’re hungry for an update. …
Know your idiomatic phrases
Idiomatic phrases, those gems of the Chinese language, can make any non-native speaker sound like a pro, and are sure to attract more than a few 你的中文很棒 (nǐ de zhōngwén hěn bàng) from the locals–especially …
Businessman for the day
Business is booming in China. Foreign companies and Chinese companies alike are doing everything they can to gain a competitive edge in the lucrative and ever-growing market. Doing business in China is not always about …
Improve your Chinese reading comprehension
This summer I had the amazing opportunity to attend the 2011 ACC-CLASS K-12 Chinese Language Teacher Training program in Beijing, China. For six intensive weeks we focused on becoming better Chinese teachers, learning new ways …
Stroke Order for the Perfectionists
If you have ever learned Chinese in a classroom setting you have almost certainly come into contact with the seemingly arbitrary and ridiculous rules of stroke order. If you were particularly unlucky, your teacher was …
Famous Foreigners Who Can Speak Chinese Really Well 会说中文的外国明星 (huì shuō Zhōngwén de wàiguó míngxīng)
外国人 (wàiguórén, lit. foreigners, people who are not ethnically Chinese) who learn Chinese to a near native level of fluency and then appear in the media are still somewhat of a rarity these days. The …
iOS Dev Turbo
Y’all have helpfully clamored for a Skritter iOS app for a long time now. As I’ve gotten more and more of it built, I’m seeing how right y’all were: it’s going to knock off some …
Super Editable Lists
The list system was overhauled for many reasons, and still has some tweaks and bug fixes to go through yet, but here we’ve come to pretty much the ultimate feature that really brings it all …
Reflections on a Summer of Teacher Training in China
I’d like to share with the skritter community a little bit about the summer Chinese teacher training program that 高健 (Jacob Gill) and I attended in Beijing this past summer (the ACC K-12 Chinese …