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 …
Japanese Sounds Courtesy of Smart.fm
We’ve just seeded our database with over six thousand words worth of audio files for Japanese! These sounds were made available through Smart.fm’s developer API and the Creative Commons License. This API is quite extensive, …
Active Pinyin Practice, France
I’ve just uploaded the alpha version of the active pinyin practice that I’ve been working on. There are still several things I need to do to it, like making it look good, but it’s got …
Payment System Up; What’s Next
Just uploaded the new payment system! As we said, existing users will still be able to purchase at the old prices until March 26th. Interestingly, the two year purchase has become abnormally popular lately… I’ve …
Credit Cards, Pricing Changes
We have decided to change our prices and pricing infrastructure in 1 month’s time. Starting on March 26th, Skritter will cost $9.95/mo, you will no longer be able to purchase multiple months of Skritter service …
Welcome Christopher and Gabriel!
A while back we indicated that we were in the market some folks to help us do some back end vocabulary linguistics work. We received quite a few applications from a number of really qualified …
Skritter.cn, MDBG Promotion, and More
Here are Skritter HQ things have been particularly busy the last week or so, and we come to you bearing the fruits of our labors! We now have a Chinese mirror for those of you …