Any updates on getting Japanese hiragana/katakana on Skritter?

No immediate plans--a bunch of other stuff would come first. It's tough.

oh, really? Skritter kicks ass, but boo for this.

Kana can be learned over the course of a weekend. Everyone using Skritter for kanji can already read kana. So, I don't think it makes much sense to be added to the software.

People can also learn 70-80 kanji / Chinese characters over the weekend, as we've seen in newsletters that people learn hundreds of new characters within a month. So what are you implying Tanizaki? Your comment goes against what Skritter is for which is helping people learn to read and write Japanese / Chinese and retain what they learn long term

I am not implying anything. I think my comment was pretty direct. If you can't read kana, no kanji learning method is going to be useful for you. Does Skritter teach people how to read pinyin? Do you really think that learning 94 kanji is as easy as learning 94 kana? Is that the argument you wish to make? (FWIW, the top learn in the most recent newsletter averaged just over 17 characters per day - a 35 character weekend, not 70-80).

I disagree with your characterization of "what Skritter is". The answer to the question of "what does Skritter teach me?" is "characters", as set forth in the FAQ. Kana are not my idea of "characters".

Just learn kana. You could have learned them in the six days between when you started this thread and now.

Is kana a phonetic system for reading Japanese? After spending years vainly bemoaning the fact that I couldn't read bopomofo for Chinese, I spent one afternoon on memrise.com and learnt the whole system. There appear to be several kana courses on memrise. If your goal is to be able to read kana, there is no need to reinvent the wheel.

i learned hiragana and katakana in 4 days, writing and reading. i still have problems with writing katakana though. i hardly write them, not often see them written (compared to hiragana or kanji). i just forget these damn little...

Hmmm i agree tanizaki, this app is not for first approaches to japanesse, you need to know the kana and some grammar to make skritter usefull.

Before starting with kanjis, its a good idea to know at least all hiragana. Also, there are lots of resourses for learning kana, and for kanji theres no better app than skritter.

Having kana on skritter would help a little but is definitively not escential.

English isnt my first language so... Srry if there are mistakes hehe

Hey guys,
Everyone has different opinions and that's cool. Just so that you know, I'm not studying or learning Japanese right now. I'm doing Chinese right now, but I think that I might begin Japanese soon.

@Nick
I just thought of a related question. If ya'll do end up putting Kana on Skritter, will that allow people to study phrases/sentences that have both Kanji and Kana in them? So, basically, will that allow users to write both characters and kana for the one item, such as
"私はアメリカ人です" , which has hiragana, katakana and kanji ?

That would be one way to do it, yes. But the integrated kana writing might be optional. We haven't figured out exactly how we would do it.

cool, because I think that would be pretty dope.

I'm curious to hear what others from this thread think about that. I'd be surprised if others don't think this is the ideal way to study sentences and phrases with Skritter, because Japanese has 3 sets of writing systems all used together, and I think if people want to master Japanese writing/reading then this is the way to go on Skritter. Let me know what ya'll think

Hmm thats a good point

@agustin48 thanks for the reply

What does everyone else think?