A few months back I spent an afternoon in New Haven, Connecticut talking to my English housemate, an ex MMA fighter, about his martial arts movie collection. After watching Never Back Down, an MMA-themed feature …
A Whole Mess of Textbooks
It occurred to us recently that we haven’t been updating the community on the cool new textbooks that we have been adding. Lots of new vocabulary sources have been going live in the last month …
An Old Friend and A New Learning Resource
Many moons ago, when Skritter was quite young, we developed a relationship with a die-hard Chinese teacher from Australia. He helped us immensely by testing our primitive group features and was our most involved Scratchpad …
Did You Know: 3 Ways to Delete Material
We often get questions from users about getting rid of unwanted material. Maybe you got overly ambitious and would like to get rid of those last 25 words you added, maybe you want to remove …
Old-School Kung Fu Flicks
When I saw Kung Fu Hustle directed by Steven Chow back in 2004 I was hooked once again on kung fu cinema. Over the years since then I’ve narrowed my interests to the golden age …
5 Years of ChinesePod, 5 Weeks of Skritter
For those of you ChinesePod users, you probably already know that ChinesePod recently turned five. For those of you long-term Skritterers, you might remember way back when we announced our partnership with ChinesePod. We have …
Results from the User Survey
Recently we asked people to answer a four-question short answer user survey. We have now had time to look through the results and wanted to share some of them with the community. To enliven the …
Take the pledge: Chinese Language Immersion Programs
Under the language pledge at CET in Beijing with my limited experience with Chinese, completing simple tasks often felt like major successes. For example, in my first week I made a trip across the street …
September Newsletter
Some users on the forum were mentioning that they didn’t receive our September newsletter, which is a shame, as Mandarinboy’s interview is not to be missed, and we are running a contest giving way three …
Example Sentences Are Up
Characters are an appetizing treat, but they are best when served with a helping of context. Example sentences are here to provide that context! We have been testing the example sentences for several weeks with …