As a student of Japanese, I would love to see a service like this with kanji readings and the traditional characters.

Of course, I'll still use this service for Chinese studies, but this is a fantastic system that would be WONDERFUL for kanji

hint hint wink wink

last i heard the team would like to add kanji/japanese support at some point but there is still quite a bit they would like to do before that is really an option.

As for around the web, Remembering the Kanji (online version being Reviewing the Kanji, http://kanji.koohii.com/ ) is the closest/best that I have heard of but it is for creative ways of remembering the kanji with flashcards and SRS, not writing them.

Of course, the link Skritter has to alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog is a cool japanese resource which is both motivational and has links to other japanese learning materials and sources around the web.

Good luck.

Yep, Hobbes is right. I've actually been studying Japanese since we started the company so that we'd have a little internal understanding of the second language we would eventually support! Of course, now that I've done a year of studying sans Skritter, I'm really looking forward to it being made myself!

We had actually hoped to develop Japanese and Chinese in parallel somewhat, but it gradually became apparent over the last year that we would need to focus just to get Chinese out the door and making money for us lest we run out. Once we start selling Skritter and we feel a little more secure financially, we'll start making the Japanese versions of the characters. We've been developing with Japanese in mind for quite a while though, so hopefully it won't take too long to get a beta version of Japanese out for people to use. I'm hopeful that'll happen sometime in the middle of this summer, as I really want to have *something* just for myself to use by this fall...

Our school uses Genki textbooks for first and second year, so those will be the first lists we make. Do you have a Japanese textbook list you'd like to have available on Skritter?

I'm winding down my first year studies and we've been using Nakama textbooks. I'm not sure yet what second year and beyond uses yet. I'll report back once I find out.

I would love to see a Japanese version of Skritter. I am also using the Genki textbooks so that would be ideal. When Skritter eventually becomes a paysite how much do you envisage charging? And would there be a discount for people subscribing to both the Hanzi and Kanji versions? (hint hint)

We haven't figured out how charging for Japanese is going to work, but that sounds reasonable, stelingo.

If you haven't seen our launch details and pricing yet stelingo, check them out:
http://www.skritter.com/launch
http://www.skritter.com/pricing