Learn Chinese and Japanese Characters
- Practice by writing! Get instant feedback, including stroke order.
- Study from 4200 characters (simplified or traditional).
- 95% retention rate!
- Skritter replaces flashcards.
You can now export your vocabulary or any vocabulary list.
The vagaries of eavesdropping as a learning method.
Another one of our users, rossann, has hit 3000 characters!
Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese is up; more to come.
George ponders the relevance of textbook vocabulary.
One of our users, thinkbuddha, knows 3000 characters!
A new vocabulary interface for a new month.
Hold the show button to see stroke order.
Maksym has left the building.
George and Scott quake in their booties.
Star Wars poorly translated in and out of Chinese.
Genki 2 is up and ready to be studied.
The music of geekdom.
A new logo, a new design.
We're going to be integrating Skritter with CPod!
We visit Cedar Point and ride a few roller coasters.
Hold "S" or the Show button to see the animations.
The blue to-review and green added bars work much better now.
The Genki 1 textbook is available; Japanese support improves.
You can now study Japanese as well as Chinese!
George goes camping and ponders upcoming semester.
Just uploaded new writing shortcuts and many stroke order fixes.
Got a quiz or test soon? Cram is here to help.
We bought a few wooden katanas. Silliness ensues.
Some tweaks have been tweaked to make list editing faster.
ChinesePod lessons are now faster, cleaner, and easier to browse.
Custom lists are finally here! Private or public, remixable, delectable!
Twitter integration as part of new reminder system.
New polls, free access to the scratchpad, better timing.
I guess I didn't study enough for the Chinese final.
Scheduled downtime this evening, added a poll widget.
A new quick practice mode has arrived--have a try.
Returned from conference to greet our new intern.
Exhausting trip to Georgia and the start of the conference.
George and Nick are off to the IALLT conference today.
Scott has hooked up our Paypal billing system, hoorah!
Prepping for the IALLT conference on the 25th, and George and Nick cooked.
Behold our launch comic for details.
Another new vocab list design, some recognition and scheduling fixes.
Improving site usability, ChinesePod up, and deleting account data.
Launch: May 12. ChinesePod: soon. New lists and documentation: now!
We're improving the site usability. Check out our new list controls!
We're putting together more lists. If you have more you want, send them!
A new audio set appears, thanks to the sinoknights over at ChinesePod.
Nearing a big improvement to the way items are scheduled and added.
Nick has tweaked many recognizers for your writing pleasure.
Lots of small stuff and sped up practicing by adding "Next" cursor.
Small bug fixes and work on the new front page continues.
Added 18 new avatars, tone buttons and a "save me" button.
The Great Firewall of China blocked us again, but it should be fixed now.
Too many changes to list here, check out the blog for the zillion updates.
Many problems have prevented the imminent data migration.
Waiting with bated breath for the coming migration.



You're learning Chinese. Your friends think you're quite smart and a little crazy. But you know that once you conquer the characters and tones, you're most of the way there. You like efficiency, and you hate forgetting.
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Skritter is the big innovation in online Chinese writing practice that we've all been waiting for. I am seriously impressed.
John Pasden, Linguist, ChinesePod.com, Sinosplice.com

You can't imagine how much Skritter actually fits my needs, and I learned more during the past 5 months than the past 3 years.
Jean-François Amadei, HKU Grad Student in Hong Kong

I have to say that today was the first time I've ever felt that I was teaching characters properly to my students - and that was thanks to you guys.
Ian Perry, Chinese Teacher at the Gap State High School, Brisbane, Australia

Skritter makes it fun and easy to practice writing Chinese, especially for the classes I'm taking. It's also a great way to procrastinate online!
Chloe Fan, Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University

By far the coolest and most effective solution for learning Mandarin characters. Better than flashcards.
Thom Mitchell, Technology Consultant

We're Nick, George and Scott. From our command center / office / guest bedroom, we bring you Skritter. Try it now!