Reviews for HelloTalk - Learn Languages

Probably going to move to tandem or some other similar app. Used to be good, but now it's just become a premium scam and it's hard to meet anybody now. I've had lots of conversations that the person blocked/reported after only a minute of chatting. I asked "where are you from?" on an app about meeting people internationally and got restricted. I used to have a lot of fun posting things and getting hundreds of likes and comments, now I want my wasted premium money back.

A really great app for connecting with native speakers of your target language. I have been using this for months and it doesn't really have any draw backs. Just like on any social platform, weird and untrustworthy people will message you, but you can just report and block them. I really love this app, it is so helpful in learning laguages, and even has it's own classes you can take (even ones with live teachers). You can easily use it for free, or pay extra for a few additional features.

No other app has given me access to native speakers of a target language! It's so easy to correct someone's writing in the app but I'm most interested in practicing my speaking, but unfortunately, HelloTalk doesn't have a great option for this. You can send voice messages, but they can only be 60 seconds and it's very difficult to have a conversation like that. I hope they update the app so you can make phone calls so I don't have to go to a different app to do this!

While this is a nice app for regular language partner use in a variety of languages, there is a MAJOR issue regarding synchronizing with the web version. Messages regularly delete themselves, and are wiped from the phone and the computer, despite being normal conversation that does that violate any rules. It's purely a matter of synchronizing messages, which fails more often than not. Makes keeping track of conversations incredibly frustrating. Both phone and computer connections are good.

It's an amazing companion app for learning languages. Finding people to talk to is easy. I really want to give this 5 stars, but the number of notifications I get from this app is insane. The number of people who try to talk to me is enormous, some of these people send me 5 or 6 messages at a time before I can respond, and the app sends me a notification for each one. It turns my phone into a constantly chiming device. This app needs to really limit the number of notifications it sends.

Tried using it to help me learn Japanese. I didn't find this app to be a helpful at all, in all honesty. It's mostly just foreign guys trying to hit on Japanese girls as something of a substitute for Tinder. Out of 10 people on here, maybe 1 or 2 were genuinely interested in helping TEACH Japanese rather than solely taking in English lessons or seeking more attention on their posts. Of course, the scene of different languages might be different. This was solely my take as a Japanese learner.

This is a very good app because I can learn languages by speaking to native people and not to AI. The people are very friendly and serious about learning foreign languages. I also can help those who are learning English. The only downfall to HT that it is very limited. A subscription is needed to do the extra activities, make more friends and have unlimited translations. I have to use Google translate to get the translations when I run out of my daily translations which I only get about 5 daily.

I personally really like this app, and have learned quite a bit just within a couple days of having it, especially through corrections of my "moments" posts. Speaking of moments, I wish there was an option in moments to be able to post videos, as there's some clips of my hobbies I would like to share. If there is a way to post video clips and I just missed it, then this critique can be disregarded :)

I really like the concept - it makes it super easy to learn from native speakers (the best way!). I really don't like how the app limits how much you can translate, and I have to either pay, or take an extra step and use Google/Microsoft. You can't even just remove the translate button; each time I tap a message instead of holding it, I'm presented with an ad to pay for the app. It calls itself free to communicate, but it's not as free as it sounds.

Works very well, lacking stickers (unless I can't find the others) but the app is very fast and very simple to figure out. It's unfortunate that there isn't a word-for-word dictionary lookup, but perhaps that's something that can be added in the future. Edit: 7 years later, I've gotta lower my rating. The app is basically unusable is you don't pay. Everything you press leads you to the subscription screen. Nobody messages back anymore. Notifications don't seem to arrive on time or at all.

I love HelloTalk! I feel like my Japanese is getting better, but it's actually fun to learn! I've met some awesome people on there. The translator works very well. You can download a Japanese keyboard to go with it and type Japanese words and I've felt like that's been a very helpful combination for my learning. You do however have to pay if you want access to certain things on there, such as giving gifts, lesson articles, and unlimited translation.

It's not as good as it seemed. I did meet a couple of people in here, but there aren't just many people to talk to. On top of that, it is getting buggy. I mean, my chats aren't saved if I delete the app and reinstall it. An audio advertisement about Bumble(dating app) pops out of nowhere when I'm using the app. When I go back from a user's profile, I get a quick advertisement(in one second), and it dissappears. It's getting really buggy and annoying. It's time to delete this app.

Decent app for practicing language learning although it takes more effort than it should. Lots of spam/people who dm "hi" with no profile filled out (maybe bots)? There should be a requirement to have at least some of your profile filled out before you message Notifications should be able to be fine-tuned more. E.g. i don't want to be notified when someone I'm following creates a voiceroom, but there doesn't seem to be a way to fine-tune that without disabling all post notifications entirely.

Unfortunately, if you want to get much out of this app, you have to pay money. If you're talking to someone you can only translate what they say 5 times a day, and there are many other limitations. I was fine with that, so I purchased a premium plan. But I found out that the main thing I bought it for (the learning center where you can study and learn new words) is a different subscription all together!!! I'm premium and I STILL have FIVE MINUTES of study time every TEN HOURS!!

The app is pretty amazing to be honest. Messaging is free, and though there's a limited translation, I can handle that just fine with a translation app so it's not issue. Met people who want to study and teach as well. The VoiceRoom has been really helpful too, BUT there's a concern. When I encounter issues with my network connection, it says "LEAVE"... . Edit: The problem has been fix in the updated version. Thank you for your hard work. This app and its team are amazing ❤

I like the new hellowords feature. its good to pick up new vocabulary but I dont like that studying is limited to one category a time. Unless you pay to study more. I'm already a VIP member so an additional subscription on top of that is ridiculous. The audio lessons are nice also but again another individual subscription feature. I'd be willing to pay a few more dollars a month for a bundle, but I wont pay for each separately. No thanks.

Concept is good, but as a woman, you see a lot of men in your inbox who are not looking for language exchange. They're not learning your language or speak the language you're learning. It would be a massive improvement if you could choose to only make your profile visible to e.g. other women. I'm interested in language exchange, but if people are just using this as a potential dating app, then I'm out.

I enjoy this app, I wish that people would list their hobbies/interests. when they don't it's more difficult to have an enriching conversation. I also wish I was matched only with native German speakers, as my purpose is to learn German, not just help people learn English who also can't help me. my only real complaint is that hello talk sends messages where people do, so I think it's a new friend saying something... and it's not, which is disappointing.

Didn't complete my profile the night I downloaded this app. Was going to do it later when I had time and a better pic for it. But my account was locked when I was going to finish the profile about a day after downloading. This was Wednesday night. I didn't message anyone because the profile wasn't complete but apparently it didn't matter. Friday morning is when I found out it was restricted. Haven't heard from them after a day with an email to their support.

A good source of language partners and conversation. But the app itself just kinda sucks. * The ads have to be in violation of Google's TOS. Just awful, blatant scams, I've seen some flavor of those "your device has a virus! click here or you will lose everything!" ads 30+ times. * Conversations are only saved locally, so if something happens to your device without being backed up they're just gone. * Sometimes repeatedly takes focus away from the keyboard when typing until I restart the app.