Made a few changes to the vocabulary and study pages recently. Who doesn’t love shiny new features? On the vocabulary options page, I added the ability to choose whether or not you want to move …
MWALLT and Cone-Guy
So this last weekend we attended the MWALLT (MidWest Association for Language Learning Technology ) conference in Cleveland. Presentation topics ranged from a review of video conferencing software to the potential language learning opportunities of …
Synaesthetes, to the fore!
We’re looking at adding “theme” colors to traditional and simplified characters, both to help with prompting and in other planned features in the site. So we’re asking you: do you have color associations for those? …
All Mixed Up
You know how before it would go through all the words, then all the characters, then all the tones to review? No more! They’re all mixed together now; you get whatever item is next on …
MWALLT Trick or Treating
Things are ambling forward here at Skritter headquarters. We are all three attending MWALLT (MidWest Association for Language Learning Technology) tomorrow and delivering a presentation about our software on Saturday. The intrepid Nick will be …
Status Bar
Just added a status bar to the top of the study page. This shows you what list the item you’re learning is from, how much time you’ve studied today so far, and how many words, …
Fixen
I’ve uploaded some hacks to make recognition better for problem strokes. The “walk” radical 辶 (in 这, for example) was being difficult. It should be very accepting, now. Let us know what other strokes are …
Control Your Destiny, Part 2: Reviewing and Tones
A couple new control themed features: you can now stop adding from lists while still reviewing from them, and you can withhold from studying tones. Both of these settings are, once again, in the Vocabulary …
Much prettier
I just uploaded a ton of tweaks to the drawing system, which I’ve been working on all week. The strokes you draw will look much prettier and match what you wrote better, even when you …
Control Your Destiny, Part 1: Cramming Time
New feature: Cram mode, select in your Vocabulary tab. This allows you to study a single section of a single list exclusively. When you want to focus on just a handful of characters, say for …