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 …
CCTV New Year’s Evening Gala 春节联欢晚会 (chūnjié liánhuān wǎnhuì)
春节快乐! (chūnjié kuàilè, Happy Chinese New Year!) Happy year of the Rabbit! Did you have a chance to check out this years’ CCTV New Year’s Evening Gala? Every year hundreds of millions of Chinese people …
Temporary Parts Study
Sometimes you just want to do writing prompts for a while, without having to switch gears and think about tones or definitions. Or maybe you want to minimize switching between keyboard and pen/mouse, so you …
Home Page Redesigned
Okay, this is the last redesign for the time being, we promise! Don’t worry, it’s not too drastic anyway. We’ve shuffled things around in the home page a bit and moved in two orphaned tools: …
Toughness Indicators in Word Popup
Here’s another one that’s been around for a while, but which you might not have noticed. This time it’s the toughness indicators in the word popup, which help let you know how useful a character …
Did you Know? Starred Words
Have you ever found yourself wanting to mark a word or character for more intensive study later? The analogue equivalent would be something like earmarking a flashcard or highlighting a row in a textbook list. …
Skritter Chrome App
I’ve just put Skritter into the Chrome Web Store as an official Google Chrome app, which allows it to live in a cool place on your Chrome New Tab page, as well as make use …