Today user thinkbuddha has learned his 3000th character on Skritter. Congratulations, sir! thinkbuddha (Will Buckingham) is the first user to break the big three kay, although another user has been stealthily creeping up behind him …
Try, Try Again
It’s that time again. Time for a new version of the vocabulary pages! The heart of it is the new vocabulary navigation page. With this new design we’re trying to make it easier to find …
Stroke Order Hints
You can now do three things with the “Show” button (or the “S” key): Press it to see the character. Hold it down to see the stroke animation. Hold it down briefly to get a …
AmericanPod
We’ve been meaning to post this for a long time. Back in April, Praxis’ OpenLanguage blog featured an episode of the fictional “AmericanPod” intended to highlight how not to make a podcast. In their own …
Maksym Has Left the Building
Maksym Taran, our illustrious summer intern left Ohio yesterday amid fanfare and heavy hearts. His arrival in June marked a new era for Skritter, an era marked by higher productivity and greater language diversity. His …
The Semester Begins
Oberlin starts classes in one week, and 学生 are returning to campus. The once deserted green spaces of the college where once only solitude occupied the plentiful sunlight are being filled with younglings here for …
Backstroke of the West: Your New Favorite Movie
Some of them were clearly impossible:Count Dooku: “Good. Twice the pride, double the fall.”the D: “You are a sacrifice article that I cut up rough now” Anakin: “I don’t need his [Palpatine’s] help . . …
Genki 2 and Other News
A handful of news items: Japanese textbook Genki 2 is here: As promised, Genki 2 has arrived! Integrated Intermediate is up next, followed by Progressing to Advanced. And then after those there are another set …
Sci Fi Concert
Last night Scott, Maksym, Trina and I went to a Cleveland Orchestra and choir concert featuring music from famous sci fi movies and television shows. We brought our dinner, picnicked on the lawn, listened to …
Styling Ch-ch-changes
As you probably already noticed, we’ve changed the overall style of the site a bit, and put in our brand new logo. But this is only the beginning, as we settle in to wrestle with …