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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I have reorganized the site navigation.The old tabs, of which there were three sets depending on which page you were on (and sometimes none), are gone, replaced by a nav pill that’s always there and …

More vocabulary management system improvements! About a month ago we introduced the new practice navigation page, allowing people to study a single list or section and view their upcoming items. Now it’s time for part …

The city 大同 (Dàtóng) in 山西 (Shānxī) Province has a rabbit head street. It’s lined with 兔头 (tù tóu, rabbit head) (pictured on the left, top) restaurants that offer up the local specialty at different …

Ever since we introduced custom lists last July, allowing people to make and share their own lists, several hundreds have been published for everyone to use, and countless more have been made just for personal …