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 …
Skritter for Android 2.2 Beta
We’ve got some good news! Skritter now works (though not with all the features) on Google’s Nexus One phone with Flash support installed. It’s likely to work on most other Google Android phones that support …
Tell Us what You Think: 4 Question User Survey
Several months ago we asked people to fill out an impressively long user survey that covered everything from where people liked to read their news to people’s willingness to tell others about Skritter. It was …
Improved Handwriting Recognition
Over the past week, George, Patrick, and I have been working on fixing the stroke recognizers that have been bothering people. The last time we did a round of improvements was almost a year ago, …
Improved Decompositions
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally completed the transmogrification of most of the missing components in our decompositions over to components you can actually see. That means much fewer “missing components” and …
Preparing for the College Entrance Examination
This post has a Chinese version below. Most Chinese parents and children think the College Entrance Examination is so important that things like hobbies and entertainment can be given up for it. The educational system …
Pizza Hut in China 必胜客在中国 (Bìshèngkè zài Zhōngguó)
Ever ordered escargot or steak at a 必胜客 (Bìshèngkè, Pizza Hut)? I certainly hadn’t, that is – before going to China. Being from the Midwest where Pizza Huts tend to be on the outskirts of …