Are Skritter planning on having any sweepstakes to celebrate Thanksgiving? Seems to be a common practice amongst the cool websites these days :)

Wouldn't make Skritter less cool to me if they weren't

A sweepstakes! I hadn't heard of that. I guess we're out of the loop. We are running the monthly challenge:
http://www.skritter.com/newsletters/10-11#challenge

I think that and the logo Skritter are the extent of our holiday spirit for this one. We're all out visiting family and trying to 胖 up a bit.

When I first read this thread, I thought of the challenge, too. It is helping to keep me at it even though so much else is swirling around. BTW I like the Skritter logo figure all decked out for Thanksgiving!

Not a complaint, but not everyone on this site is American!
As this site is aimed at learners of Chinese from all parts of the world, it's the Chinese festivals that should be noted :)

What about the minority of learners of Japanese?
Let's just celebrate everything ;-)

Unfortunately, it's not as easy for us to find, say, Dragon Boat Festival garb for our Skritter as it is to get pilgrim stuff over here. If people like the festive touches, perhaps we can hook up some more variety.

By the way, Japanese learning has been growing significantly on Skritter of late. Chinese is still bigger, but Japanese is catching up!

@ Nick - So, it isn't enough for me to be able to read English, simplified characters, AND traditional characters? In order to understand these forums, I now have to be able to read Japanese too?哎呀！

はい！