The Skritter community has come a long way since our site launched more than two years ago. The heart of the community, the forum, is always buzzing with language learning advice, discussions on how to …
Darlie (Black People’s Toothpaste) 黑人牙膏 (hēirén yágāo)
In 2010 there was a court case in China where Black People Toothpaste (aka Darlie) sued Whitemen Toothpaste for copyright infringement. The claim was that consumers could not tell the difference between the toothpastes because …
Privacy Option
Last week we started alpha testing a new social feature for the site, public user profiles, which could be accessed through the forum. They display your country, when you joined Skritter, the posts you made …
Answering Your Questions Faster
Having to wait for us to answer your email is a drag. Mostly it just takes too long, but having to actually ask us questions has the result of discouraging question-asking in the first place. …
HSK Words in Heisig Order
A while back a Skritter user wrote some code to generate these really cool vocabulary lists that combine the HSK word lists and the Heisig Remembering the Hanzi character lists. The HSK lists (for the …
10,000 Characters
We’ve broken ten thousand characters in our database this month! George has been adding big batches of character lately, and he’s finished all the requested characters and gotten caught up at long last. I’m not …
Latency Indicator
Even the best internet connections have hiccups, and our servers occasionally do, too. It’s not always easy to tell when there’s been a connection slowdown or interruption while practicing on Skritter until a few reviews …
Containing Words Search
Here’s another recent upgrade to the site: the My Words search now includes words that have a given character in it. If you search for a single character, you’ll get back not only the character, …
Grading Buttons in Chinese Reading Prompts
As an alternative to typing the pinyin to answer Chinese reading prompts, we’ve now added the grading buttons to those prompts. This allows you to use a more flashcard-like style if you don’t want to …
Export Starred Words
New feature just added last week ago: you can now export your starred words. This has been asked for a few times, has been on the to do list for a while, and is finally …