Any plans to add other East Asian languages in the future, such as Korean? I'm studying Japanese, but I have a friend who wants to learn Japanese and Korean and would probably LOVE this site.

By the way, I love this site. =P

I'm hoping I can get someone to pay for a paid subscription for me for my birthday. >_<

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Korean was one of the languages with a phonetic writing system (Hangul). Or are you referring to the use of Chinese characters in Korean (Hanja)? According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja

"Because hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese and kyūjitai characters. Only a small number of hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean."

If that's what you're referring to, maybe all that would be needed would be to add those few modified or uniquely-Korean characters to Skritter.

James

Hmm... good point about the Hanja.

But actually, I just have such little experience with Korean that I brainfarted and asked about that even though I've already learned that the writing system is phoenetic. Duh! >_<

Ah well. Thanks for turning my silly moment into a useful point. =)

No worries, there's no such thing as a silly question, but now I'm wondering how many Chinese characters are necessary for those learning modern Korean. If the number is significant, another thing that the Skritter guys might think about is adding textbook lists oriented towards Korean learners.

James

I seem to remember our Korean history lecturer saying that Korean high school students are required to learn 1800 hanja, and that's about average in the population. But if Skritter could do hangul, it would still be very useful for memorising Korean vocab. You could easily achieve this in Anki, though.

I know this message is pretty old, but I wanted to put my two-cents in anyway.

I believe that adding a feature for hanja would be FANTASTIC. Even though you don't really need to know very many hanja as far as reading/writing goes, to know the hanja meanings would be really helpful for learning high level vocabulary. I think that with a few modifications Skitter could be incredibly helpful for people learning Korean.