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 …
Reorganized All, Lurking Decomps
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 …
List Page Reorg, Remove Lists from Study
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 …
兔头 (Rabbit Heads) and other odd foods
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 …
List Tagging
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 …
Summer Intern Wanted (Software development)
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 …