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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Skritter seems simple but packs a lot in (we’ve kept the interface simple on purpose so you can focus on learning characters, not learning how to use Skritter!) Michelle, Cacairl, and I gave a demo …

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, …

Next up of the features we released on Tuesday is the custom definitions system. This feature allows you to change any Skritter definition to whatever you want. So while you’re practicing, if you see a …

Earlier this evening we launched a big wad of much-awaited features! Skritter now displays character decompositions, allows you to add personalized mnemonics, lets you build lists on the fly, sports a new list editor, and …

This post has a Chinese version below. Feel free to test your Chinese by reading the Chinese version first! When I first came to Shanghai it took me some time to adapt to the usage …

In between finishing up all the awesome features in alpha testing now, I’m preparing for a trip to Shanghai at the end of this month. I’ll be there between the 20th and 3rd and I …