We have made a free deck on the Skritter app that has been designed for complete beginners, and works through the 8 rules in a logical fashion, using characters from the top 100 most common …
How to Write Chinese or Japanese on your Apple Watch
If you own an Apple watch, and you’re learning a character-based language like Chinese or Japanese, the built-in handwriting feature on the Apple Watch is pretty great. In this blog, we’ll learn how to set it up and get started.
Climate Crisis Terms Part 1
Learn lots of useful and important terms about climate change and the environment in today’s mini-lesson. If you can talk about it, then you can spread awareness and do your bit.
Prayer Ritual in a Taoist Temple [Video Transcript]
In this lesson, Iona takes you on a tour of a temple in Taiwan and shows you some of the customs and traditions associated with prayer in Taoism [Daoism]. She also explains the concept of …
Cartoon Character Challenge #15
Below is an image of a scene, like a cartoon, however it’s made up using Kanji instead of drawings. The goal is to look at the image and figure out what is being shown by …
Skritter Mobile Update- 3.3.7
The latest Skritter Mobile app update (3.3.7 v300345) is out now and available for download on iOS and Android. What’s new? Added new Chinese audio for all syllables and tone readings mapped to all Chinese …
Learning Japanese through Music, Part 8: Pokemon theme song ポケモンOP１
Click here to see more of these posts! This series of posts covers Japanese songs, along with their lyrics, and translations so you can make sure you learn every word. For this one, let’s do the original …
Coronavirus Chinese Lesson
Late in 2019, and early 2020, a novel form of the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) started infecting the residents of Wuhan, a city of 11 million in central China. Within weeks, the epidemic spread across borders and …
Japan & Palau, Japanese influence on Palauan language and culture
Japan and Palau have a long history, dating back to 1920 when Palau was under Japanese rule. This isn’t what this blog post is about though, but rather how much influence Japanese language and culture …
Unlocking Chinese: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners
I have taught Chinese for almost a decade now and have learnt Chinese myself a few years longer. Some of my insights are turned it into post on this blog, some make it into the …