Hi, I'm quite a newbie here as well as studying Chinese. (It's been a little more than a week now!) I accidentally ran across skritter last Friday, and I've tried out since. Hell, it's free trial! And I'm a language learning geek. (I feel like I'm spending more time to search for tools than study languages.)
Here I am. After 4 days of trial, my Chinese characters learned has reached 350, and I felt really great when I tried writing some basic characters, like 我,那,or 做, on a paper. I didn't have any trouble to write them. Amazing!
Why am I so amazed? Here is a confession to make. I've teaching myself Japanese almost for 3 years now. I'm quite confident in Japanese conversation. I've been focusing on listening, speaking and recently reading. Writing has never been a part of my study journal. However, now I started feeling stupid for my Japanese lacking writing skill. I mean, at all. When I write a memo in Japanese, all the characters I use are hiragana. It looks like someone who studied Japanese for a month wrote them.
So.
I will keep subscribing to skritter even after free trial. Maybe I need to brush up on my Japanese characters as well. Well, 'brush up' might not be an appropriate word for it.
Huge thanks from Korea. :)