I have my self been using Skritter for many years and moved recently to China. My daughter is studying Chinese in an international school on native level. Since she have missed out two years she is behind the other students in Chinese writing. She have been getting scores around 50-70%. After signing her up for Skritter she have had every 听写 with 100%. That includes tones, pinyin and characters. Major improvement that resulted in her teacher calling me for a meeting to tell her how we had achieved this improvement. We now spend less time each day doing her Chinese homework but are getting better result. Very well invested money I would say. She is also picking up a lot of English at the same time giving her even more value. My other daughter is still to young for this(4) but next year I will probably get a third account for her as well:-)

Inspiring. Thanks for sharing!

How old is said daughter?

Other than that, congratlulations. :)

Yes, that's a great testimony. Thank you for sharing it.

Great story. Ah to be young and have a brain that can readily absorb new information. Mine is so stubborn.

It is very encouraging to hear this. I had three years of Chinese at the university and remember vividly how much hard work I had to put in. When I discovered Skritter I realized that relearning something I had no contact with for 30 years is not only possible, but also highly enjoyable. My only question was, would this knowledge translate to the real world successfully. Hearing that your daughter had such success at school in my opinion validates this method absolutely. I truly believe this is the way education shoud go. The most boring part of learning any skill is the dry process of memorizing, and Skritter has turned that process into a fun game.

She is 8 years(9 according to the Chinese way of counting) and is in grade 3(4 in the Chinese system). She did study year one in a Chinese public school when she where one year to young. After that she come back to Sweden for a few years where she did not study much Chinese at all.

One funny thing is that she very often have to correct her teachers pinyin and tones. They do frequently spell wrong and/or use the wrong tones when they do the pinyin. I push her to always use Pleco to look up every word she is not 100% sure of and when she learnt something in Skritter that the teacher spell wrong.

Yes, the brains of children is truly amazing for learning languages. Since they do not think to much, just absorb it is so easy. They do not spend any time at all learning radicals, origin, decomposition etc but still manage to absorb large amount of characters. She is already on 3000+ characters she can read. Her reading speed is amazing. I read very fast in my native language but she reads twice as fast in Chinese.

About Skritter, Yes that is a game for her as well as for me. I never have to push her to study Chinese anymore. Similarly we use Raz-kids for her English. That is lovely books on-line with quizzes, reading etc. She is often picking up her Ipad and "play" with those programs since it is fun. Learning should be fun and I feel that Skritter is fun for all of us.