Studying at night just got better for you. Learn how to enable Dark Mode on your Skritter Account. 💥Beta-Feature Alert💥 Dark Mode Now Available on Skritter! Are you someone who spends long hours using …
Learning Japanese for Chinese Learners
So you’ve spent some time learning Chinese and decided you want to try your hand at Japanese. Maybe you like anime, enjoy challenges, or have just run out of new Chinese characters to learn. Luckily, …
Learning a lot of Chinese characters in Skritter
How many Chinese characters do you need to learn to be able to understand normal texts written for native speakers? 2,000? 3,500? 5,000? 7,000? This question is hard to answer for two reasons. First, in …
Mid-Autumn Festival: The Chinese Moon Festival Explained!
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people and other East Asian cultures. It falls on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, which usually corresponds to late …
Mandarin Blueprint: Video Courses to Study Chinese
For those of you in search of an online Chinese course, Mandarin Blueprint may be for you. First, let’s look at a video where Jake and Phil discuss MB, Skritter, language learning and so much more: …
Learn Chinese with Cartoons: 5 Movies
Intro: Getting Comprehensive Input with Chinese Cartoons Comprehensive input is a useful method for language learners. According to Krashen’s I+1 theory, students should be exposed to language that is slightly above their current level. So in …
Chinese Radicals: The Beginner’s Guide
It’s common for beginners and sometimes even more advanced students to lack an understanding of how Chinese characters are structured. This includes misconceptions about components and radicals. In this article, I’m going to address some …
Mandarin Chinese Polyphones
This is a guest post from That’s Mandarin. Find out more at the end of this article. Having trouble distinguishing between when to use a certain pronunciation for the same character? Ever not understood a sentence …
Du Chinese Integration: Link with Skritter
You can now link your Du Chinese and Skritter accounts. Once your accounts are linked, words you save while reading on Du Chinese will automatically be added to a custom study deck! What is Du …
Year of the Tiger Auspicious Phrases
It’s the Year of the Tiger which means that aside from the usual phrases like 新年快乐 xīnnián kuàilè – Happy New Year, you can also learn some lucky phrases to wish people well during the …