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 …
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 …
