Some more textbooks for you Japanese students! I just uploaded Yookoso!: An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese, and Yookoso!: Continuing with Contemporary Japanese. These are beginner textbooks like Genki and Nakama, so we have a fair …
Definition (and Reading) Practice
As many of you have noticed, definition practice has been added! We put it up a few days ago and have been ironing out some of the bugs. It’s still in testing but if you’re …
New Practice Interface
For the past year, and some odd months, the practice page had remained largely the same. Every time you would go to practice, you would be greeted by the following screen: It was great, but …
Super Simple Custom Search
I just uploaded a very straightforward search engine for the custom lists. I’ve been unable to coax Google Custom Search to index our custom lists properly, so I made this to hold us over until …
Help us Pick a Tagline!
So for the past few weeks we have been trying unsuccessfully to come up with a tagline for Skritter. We were wondering if our users might have some more shiny brain nuggets. So we propose …
Brushing dirt off
In the past couple days, we’ve fixed many bugs with adding words, the space bar, review scheduling, audio clipping, session time when left on overnight, multiple pinyin display, Linux text alignment, and a bunch of …
ACTFL and Thanksgiving
We have returned from our respective homelands and are working again. Nick and I spent the day leading up to Thanksgiving attending the ACTFL convention out in sunny San Diego, CA. We flew out on …
Japanese: Nakama 1 and 2
Just finished and uploaded two more Japanese textbooks: Nakama 1 and 2. Even if you’re not using these textbooks, you might find these lists useful, particularly in the second book. For example, the vocabulary in …
Help Overlays
I just uploaded a new help system we’re going to try; an overlay system. In pages that have it set up, there’s a blue help button in the upper right corner of the page (except …
Returning to the ACTFL
Last year we attended the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) conference in Orlando Florida. It was a harrowing experience. We learned of the conference approximately 2 weeks before it occurred. One …