Comments on: Skritter review: Boosting your Chinese character learning https://www.hackingchinese.com/skritter-chinese-review-boosting-your-character-learning/ A better way of learning Mandarin Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:17:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Prostavive https://www.hackingchinese.com/skritter-chinese-review-boosting-your-character-learning/#comment-148522 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:17:14 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3856#comment-148522 Great review! I’ve been looking for effective ways to improve my Chinese character recognition, and Skritter seems like a perfect fit. I appreciate the insights you provided about its features and usability. I can’t wait to give it a try!

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]]> By: Is it necessary to learn to write Chinese characters by hand? | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/skritter-chinese-review-boosting-your-character-learning/#comment-142794 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:48:55 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3856#comment-142794 […] is not strong enough to make me write characters for fun, but it’s enough to make me enjoy building a character course over at Skritter and work with Chinese language standards and corrections. I have also learnt at least 6,000 […]

]]> By: Student Q&A: May, 2025: Learning Chinese characters and words with flashcard apps | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/skritter-chinese-review-boosting-your-character-learning/#comment-132482 Wed, 07 May 2025 20:19:19 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3856#comment-132482 […] This week’s podcast episode is a reader and listener Q&A, where I answer three questions about learning vocabulary. This time, all questions come from Skritter users, but my answers will be relevant no matter what app you’re using. Learn more about Skritter in my in-depth review. […]

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]]> By: Cramming vs. Spaced repetition for learning Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/skritter-chinese-review-boosting-your-character-learning/#comment-129614 Sun, 09 Mar 2025 05:15:44 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3856#comment-129614 […] not as common, unless built into apps that some people use to learn Chinese, such as Anki, Pleco or Skritter. It’s a pity that spaced repetition isn’t used more because it has been shown repeatedly to be […]

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