Skritter is hiring one more paid intern this summer to do software development. If you love coding, are smart, and are available this summer, then we want you! You get to work on any part …
Reading bettered, quick access to Scratchpad
We’ve recently made Chinese reading practice look cooler, color tones, be clearer about when it doesn’t have focus and which syllables in your answer are incorrect, grade you properly if you use the show button, …
Take the Skritter Survey, Chat, Practice Nav
Our basic tactic for improving Skritter can neatly be described as follows: listen to your problems and solve them. In the spirit of this method, we’ve created a short survey we would really like you …
中文版的猫和老鼠 (zhōngwén bǎn de māohélǎoshǔ) Tom and Jerry Cartoons Overdubbed in Chinese
Last week I was reading the forum thread about what else people use to study Mandarin and wanted to put in my own two cents here about using Tom and Jerry cartoons as study materials. …
Practice Lists And Sections
Okay, major new feature! You can now study a single list on its own, or a single section on its own, as opposed to studying everything at once as before. If you go to the …
Wacom Store is Up!
It’s been a long time in the coming, but you are now able to order Wacom pen tablets from us. You can check out the Wacom store via the button on the home page. We …
Removing Japanese Sounds
Bad news Japanese Skritterers, it would appear that we misunderstood the terms of use for Smart.fm’s Japanese audio files and they have asked us to take them down. The sounds will be disabled later today …
Forming a 重金属乐队 (zhòngjīnshǔ yuèduì, Heavy Metal Band) in Shanxi Province
My idea was to form the first ever heavy metal band at Shanxi Agricultural University. The first order of business was to locate the musically talented metal heads on campus. The preferred method of announcing …
Wacoms a’comin’
Is using the mouse for Skritter getting you down? We have talked for some time about introducing Wacom writing tablets on the website, and now we are days away from introducing them. I made a …
The challenge of 谦虚: learning to be a humble Chinese language student
Hello to the Skritter community! I’ve been lurking behind the scenes for the past half year, proofreading and translating entries in the skritter database. Now that Christopher and Gabriel are on board to handle the …