Hi, I am Michelle. I am a new member of the Skritter community, and I am currently interning as a marketing assistant. My full name is Michelle Ying Huey, Lai (赖盈慧), but you can just …
Cacairl, A New Member of Skritter
This post has a Chinese version below. Feel free to test your Chinese by reading the Chinese version first! Hello—nice to meet you! I’m a new member of the Skritter community, and I am currently …
Marketing Skritter
My job should not exist, at least if you take an economics-inspired, idealized view of the world. In classical economics, lower prices should automatically bring more customers, reducing the field of selling to merely order-taking …
Heisig Keywords Are In
I’ve just finished adding, for Chinese and Japanese, support for Heisig keywords built into the practice page. This uses the upcoming custom definitions to replace the standard definitions with the Heisig ones for the applicable …
Happy Birthday Skritter
Yesterday, one year ago a little website launched. The three cofounders had been working on the site for almost a year prior to the launch. The site’s name was Skritter and it was the brainchild …
Chinese people’s English names 中国人的英文名字 (Zhōngguórén de Yīngwén míngzi)
Earlier this week I saw this video (below) from Sexy Beijing about the English names that Chinese people choose. During my time in China I encountered my fair share of Chinese people with English names …
Some Interesting Results from the User Survey
Several weeks ago we asked people to take a Skritter user survey. In it, we asked all sorts of questions about how you use Skritter, what you want out of similar educational services, what news …
See Your Squigs, Audio Shortcut
For kicks, I’ve enabled a new experimental mode whereby you can see your own squigs after you finish writing a character. Press Ctrl+Alt+D to enable this new mode, then write some characters and check out …
Zhongwen Chrome extension: now with Skritter support
If you use Google Chrome and study Chinese, then you should install the Zhongwen Chrome extension made by Skritterer shillec. It’s a popup translator for Chrome, is very handy, and now lets you simply press …
Chinese tongue twisters and palindromes 汉语绕口令和回文 hànyǔ ràokǒulìng hé huíwén
Have you learned any Chinese tongue twisters or palindromes? Getting a few of these under your belt can help improve your Chinese, not to mention that they also make great party tricks. This tongue twister …