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 …

Here’s something that’s long overdue: you can now suspend your account when you go on vacation! If you’re to be gone for a week or a summer vacation, you can put your account on hold …

It’s official, Skritter users have studied 100,000,000 items on the site! That means that where you sum up the number of tone, reading, definition, and writing prompts studied, you get 100,000,000. Nick, Scott, and I …

Skritter is getting on in age and size. It’s been over three years since we started this project, more than four if you count Nick’s honors project where he developed the stroke recognition algorithm that’s …

Quick Add Bar Blog Post And lastly, there is the Quick Add Bar. It’s really a very specialized popup. It’s temporary and out of the way, and draggable as well. With it you can add …

Now for part two of our Quick Add feature extravaganza. We have just released a Quick Add page, dedicated to getting those words into your studies as quickly as possible. This way, you can bookmark …

Okay, it’s time to start releasing all those improved quick add features that were decided upon about two weeks ago! The first of the three new features to be finished is the Quick Add shortcut. …

So you may not have noticed, but textbook images are sprouting out of the vocabulary list section. Where once there was only a default Skritter logo, there are now visual aides to help you locate …

Jacob Gill is a recent addition to the Skritter team who will be contributing to our blog and lending his language learning wisdom to the team. Jacob was recruited by our very own Ben Reitz …

Lists in the old system did not handle change well. Our original vision was for lists to be for the longer term things. Textbooks that were printed were the main use case, or lists for …