HelloTalk, the 1st global language and culture exchange community, connects you with native speakers of other languages (English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, and 100 more).
KEY FEATURES
- Search for people whose needs match yours
- Practice your target language with native speakers via text/audio messages
- Free audio and video call to better practice your listening and speaking skills
- Share moments with other members and get Likes and Comments
- Learning specific features: Translation, Transliteration, Grammar correction, Text to voice, and Voice recognition to improve your writing/speaking skills
- It’s not curriculum based, it’s communication based. You have no homework. Instead, you’re having fun while learning
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN ANOTHER CULTURE
When you learn a language with real people, you will learn more than just a language. You'll be exposed to a different culture, and a new way of seeing the world.
In HelloTalk, you get connected with real people who might be your “penpals” that can help you with your Japanese grammar/accent, explain Chinese culture to you, be your travel buddy in France, and even be your friends in the country you expat in.
It helps you overcome language barriers, see the cultural diversity, and prepare for culture shock before you travel/study/expat in a foreign culture.
pastel_p1xel_punK added HelloTalk as alternative to LingoTheory
Comments and Reviews
I love all the chat features. It's easy to see all my gramatical mistakes when my partner corrects me.
I paid for a lifetime account on this app so that I could use it to help people improve their English conversation skills in voice. I had a room for about two weeks that was quite popular called "English Practice" & it was always populated. I lost my account due to being banned because of what they claimed was due to being reported to many times which was a lie. Instead my account was banned because of the review I left for their app on the Google Play store because they refused to get rid of the troublemakers on their app which open rooms to lure poor saps in so that they can kick, and harass them till they get scrip banned & loose their lifetime accounts. HelloTalk made it painfully clear in my multiple emails with them that they were more interested in the money then they were in cleaning up the app to make it a more safe environment for the people who actually wanted to use it for what it claimed to be for in the first place, when in fact its nothing more then a pay wall on pretty much everything useful. So good honest people who want to learn get harasses by idiots, and HelloTalk devs allow it to happen. One even told me once that if those people were upset with being scrip banned that they could always create another account & buy a new lifetime VIP. If that doesn't say money is more important, then nothing does. Common sense, isn't so common these days.
I mean seriously...
And by the way its a shame I can not post images here as I have proof of my VIP account along with my room being pretty popular & my more then 774+ hours at a time having it open because it was so popular. Plus the fact that my account was only two weeks old & I had a little over 900+ followers. I mean numbers don't lie, and plenty of people on their know me as AWFordJr or TonyFord. If you ask the right people, they will tell you that I helped them to open up & that I helped them to no be afraid to speak to an English speaker as I was nice to them & gave them a safe place to practice where no one would make fun of them or bully them.
I really miss all those who came to my room daily from Iraq, China, Russia, Japan, and other countries. I never discriminate, and my help is always 100% free.
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