List Your Mnemonics

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New page is up: this one is just a list of all the mnemonics you’ve made. A lot of you have asked for this so that you can just generally keep track of things, or …

The New List Editor

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It’s been over a month since this went live for everyone, but it’s been taking us quite a while to get through all the new features that have been coming out! The last month truly …

Word Popup!

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Maksym’s new word popup is ready! Its power is vast. It combines the old item progress page with the magnifying glass lookup menu, plus some new controls. Now you can edit definitions or mnemonics or …

Raw Squigs Mode

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We recently did a poll about the “raw squigs” practice mode, and it turns out that almost everyone who tried it has liked it, but most people have never tried it. So we figured we’d …

Fashionable Chinese Words and Sentences

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This post has a Chinese version below. Feel free to test your Chinese by reading the Chinese version first! The following words and sentences are popular with the young Chinese people. If a foreigner can …

Feature Overload Pt. 6

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This here feature is the start of allowing you to study on Skritter in source languages other than English. So if you want to see Russian definitions of your Chinese words or German definitions of …

Feature Overload Pt. 5

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This one might be a bit of a surprise, since it’s not one of the newsletter features but something we just put up this morning. Yes, it is the long-awaited new progress page! After the …

Feature Overload Pt. 4

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It’s been a few days since our last installment, so it’s high time we explained another one of the recent updates: the character decompositions. Users have been suggesting we include radical decompositions almost since we …

Feature Overload Pt. 3

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You know the drill! I talked about custom definitions in yesterday’s post, and next up is the related mnemonics system. Mnemonics are short pieces of information that are very easy to remember (because they’re weird, …