Skritter Forum

"I got that stroke button"

2010-09-02T20:57:56Z

gacorley: So I just wasted a bunch of time trying to write the backward-hooking downstroke in 除 because after doing it over and over about 20 times the system still refused to recognize it. Is it possible that you guys could add a "skip this stroke" button for little bugs like that, so I'm not skipping the rest of the character because of one stroke that I got right but the computer doesn't recognize?

grading shortcuts

2010-09-02T16:51:17Z

g1itch: i know that (1-4)&(6-9) are the grading shortcuts- but is there grading shortcuts for just the word writing grading, instead of the character?

purely curious, if this has already been asked i apologize!

Learning PInyin

2010-09-02T10:47:46Z

ngott3: Does anyone know if there's an option where you can get shown the character and you have to enter in the tone as well as the word. Also, is there an option where you can enter in the meaning? Thanks

Raw squigs mode

2010-09-02T07:26:06Z

阿福: Apologies if this has been raised before but it would be nice in raw squigs mode if we could backtrack just one stroke, rather than erase the whole character and start again.

China Scene Vocab sections incorrectly labelled

2010-09-02T02:19:46Z

penglindong: Hey there. I am really really jazzed about Skritter !! Just joined and bought a Bamboo tablet to use with it. Im doing 3rd year advanced Chinese at CUBoulder. Your site is really excellent.
One bug to bring up :

China Scene 1; the Chapter 1 vocab lists are not correct her on Skritter;
TV Original of Ch1 has the vocab for Ch2 Dialogue 1, ling yang nv ying.
Ch2 Dialogue 1 has Ch2 Dialogue 2 Vocab
TV original for Ch2 has Ch3 Vocab1

Basically it looks like the lists are all out of sync by 1 section, beginning with Ch1 TV Orig. It appears that you subsumed the Ch1 TV Orig vocab under Dialogue2 in your listing here. So everything following is advanced one set forward from where it should be. If you take the vocab from Dialogue 2 after cheng zhang 成长 and beginning with 原文 yuánwén: original text .. and move it one set back to TV Original .. and follow suit with all the following vocab sections I think you will be in sync. Otherwise all of the material seems to be there .. just mislabelled.

When does the expiry date get updated after paying with PayPal?

2010-09-01T03:19:06Z

FeiyueKell: Hey,

I just paid for 6 months of Skritter with PayPal but my expiry date still says 3 September.
Does it take some time before it get's updated or did something go wrong?

Greets,

FeiyueKell

gmail vocab

2010-09-01T00:24:22Z

webmagnets: Would someone please be so kind as to make a custom list of most of the vocabulary from gmail? I would like to be able to use gmail in chinese. Vocab like 已加星标 should be included.

Any takers?

"known" characters

2010-08-31T21:46:14Z

Amitabha: Hi all, this is my first week on skritter, I've just completed my first 30 hours of fun. I just have to say, I love the site, and it has ignited a Chinese flame in me I'd forgotten I had. In the 18 months so far of studying Chinese at university, I probably wouldn't have spent much more than 30 hours on characters. The spaced repitition algorithm is working well for my level too, except when I'm drunk.

However, I am a little concerned that I haven't seen any of the first characters I wrote. When I started, I had raw skrigs disabled (didn't know it existed, and it took me a while to find it), the generous handwriting recognition accepted a few dubious guesses, and the rearranging of the strokes gave huge hints where I wouldn't actually have been able to remember the squiggle raw. I never bothered challenging the correct marking, even when I didn't know the character.

Do characters correctly written on the first attempt ever resurface? How long will they take? Have I screwed myself? I think it would be useful/fun to be able to force a test of all characters. It would catch any older characters that have slipped out of memory, and provide a truer count of actually known characters at any point in time. If there's any way of doing this already please let me know. Cheers.

~
Amitabha

No reminder mail

2010-08-31T09:34:17Z

Mandarinboy: What have happened to the reminder mails? Before i promptly did receive them when i did not have time to study. Now when i try to catch up i have only received one in three weeks. I have tried to trick the function by changing to 1 day left and such things but still no mails. There is nothing in my spam filer. I do get all other mails from skritter, such as forum posts etc.

No Hiragana but maybe Katakana?

2010-08-30T17:56:12Z

LadyMissie: So I looked up a few past topics that asked about Hiragana being added and why it cannot due to it being too cursive. I'm just curious if this means Katakana could be possible some day? Katakana is pretty strait as far as lines go.

I know this program was made for Chinese and that all Chinese fixes come first but this program is amazing for Japanese as well. Even if Hiragana doesn't happen having one of the kana "alphabets" would be a nice treat. :)

Just curious about the creator's thoughts on this or if it's in the works somehow. There are a billion flashcard programs to remember the Kana but I still have trouble remembering how to write some of them.

2000 review limit

2010-08-30T04:28:50Z

tonkfodder: Noticed over the last few weeks when I havent had much chance to skritter the items due has hit a limit at 2000 items. I know previously when I have been away for a few weeks it would go way past this. Its a little annoying as you work a while knock off a few hundred and it resets every time to 2000 so no way to know what is the real value? Is this a new feature I have missed, i.e. setting a limit? or is it possible there is a problem with the account?

Nice skritter moments

2010-08-30T03:17:25Z

Mandarinboy: While skrittering is always very fun, some moments are extra memorable. I had one such this weekend. I went to Mount Fuji to climb the mountain. Since I am the stupid person I am something did get wrong with my buss trip and i where dropped of in a small city in the valley below and not at the 5:th station where people usually start from. Due to this I had to walk some extra 70 Km by foot. Since i would not make it in time for the sunrise this time (I have been there before) I decided to take a rest on a very scenic spot in the forest and sit there to do some skrittering while the sun where rising. That where a truly memorable moment. Such moments are like mnemonics, a very goo way to remember characters. Others have had any really memorable moment with skritter?

radicals

2010-08-29T00:36:07Z

SGRuixue: This isn't exactly a skritter question, but I don't know who else would know how to do this. Does anyone know if Microsoft IME can just type radicals? I want to make a list for my students of the radicals in their full character form AND how they appear in characters, but don't know how.

Using a mnemonic should mark the character as so-so

2010-08-28T22:14:03Z

wispfrog: or maybe even forgot.

How about it?

Manually add characters

2010-08-28T17:22:26Z

aharlekyn: I cant seem to manually add characters today. Not in the list cram and neither in the practice everything. Is this just me? Maybe its because I am doing Chinese on a Saturday evening.

Numbers

2010-08-28T07:25:01Z

aharlekyn: Is there a list with all the major numbers from 1 to say a 1000 000?

Will This DigiPro tablet work with skritter?

2010-08-27T23:44:54Z

yechan831: DigiPro USB 4x3-Inch Graphics Tablet with Cordless Stylus Pen
http://www.amazon.com/DigiPro-4x3-Inch-Graphics-Tablet-Cordless/dp/B000YLBE9G

Its a great deal if so. I cant really afford anything much more expensive than this, so I really hope it will be suitable.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks also Skritter.

Ryan

cloze deletion practice

2010-08-27T13:59:44Z

jww1066: The new sample sentences feature is amazingly helpful. It has me wanting to reinforce those sentences by practicing them in Anki. Would it be possible to include the sample sentences in the export, together with their pinyin and English translations?

It would also be useful to hide the English definition for items with sample sentences, so we have to use the sample sentence as the prompt. I'm not sure if everyone would like this, though I think it would be good for them... ;)

James

scheduling for so-so words

2010-08-26T11:39:11Z

jww1066: I'm not really sure how the scheduling works, but my impression is that "so-so" means "reschedule it at the same interval". How does this work when we're practicing a word and get a single character wrong?

Just now I was practicing a multi-character word that has a rare character in it, and that word is the only place where I study that rare character. I got everything right in that word except the rare character, which I completely forgot how to write, and Skritter marked the word as "so-so". (This mostly happens to me with words of more than two characters; it seems like Skritter marks the word as "so-so" if I get a certain proportion of the characters right.)

Now, if the word is marked as "so-so", doesn't that mean it's rescheduled at the same interval? So, if the word was last studied 6 months ago, won't it be rescheduled for 6 months from now? And if that's the case, how will I ever learn the rare character? Or is there some kind of special logic that applies when the word is the only place where we're studying a character that we got wrong?

James

stroke order for 车

2010-08-25T18:03:53Z

jww1066: MDBG says that the horizontal stroke on the bottom of 车 should come before the vertical stroke, while Yellowbridge says the vertical stroke comes first. On Skritter, when practicing 车 by itself, the horizontal stroke comes first, but in 轮 the vertical comes first. Is there an official standard for this?

James

SuperGenPass vs. Skritter

2010-08-25T07:01:21Z

Christian: Anybody else using SuperGenPass (supergenpass.com) to generate a Skritter password? I'm always annoyed when getting a login page on Skritter, because on some of them, SuperGenPass works, but on most of them, it doesn't. Does anybody have a clue why?

Dear Skritter Team

2010-08-25T03:45:13Z

Bohan: Dear Skritter team,

Please please please make it so that when we want get rid of the words in Scratchpad, we can get rid of all of the words at once, rather than clicking on the X's next to each and every word. This is very tedious and a waste of time. It used to be SUPER easy; all I had to do was hi-lite all the words and then click Delete, or Backspace. It used to take 2 seconds, now it takes 60-70 seconds. I kindly ask you to do something about this

Progress bar on section cramming

2010-08-24T20:09:06Z

aharlekyn: I just crammed a section of a list for the first time and noticed that there is no blue/green 'progress bar' at the top left and the green + button is also missing. Is this suppose to be missing?

I found a nice way to add words to my study list is to cram a list and after that go to the practice everything. It seems it wont work so good with the sections of the list as I dont have the same control.

No biggy though. Could just overcome it by keeping to my old habits.

wiki for learning chinese

2010-08-24T13:52:39Z

wb: Hey guys...

The Skritter gods are very busy, so I just set up a simple wiki for learning chinese.
http://ch.wibr.de
Have look at it, though there is not much to see yet. I edited the page about pronunciation as a suggestion what it could look like. For now everyone can just edit everything, so feel free!
My English may be crude or wrong, corrections are welcome.
I know that there are several clever people hanging around here who have been learning Chinese much longer than I have, so I would appreciate it if you could share your wisdom for the benefit of everyone ;-)

meaning of 身上

2010-08-24T12:19:04Z

murrayjames: 我们父母身上都有长处和短处。

What's the meaning of 身上 here?