Not familiar with HelloTalk - if I'd like to reach out to Chinese comrades and talk to them, is it like an ESL app? Or just a standard social media thing?
Language exchange! You put in the languages you know, and the ones you wanna learn, and it matches you up with people doing the opposite. It's got like a feed like most social media, and also text or voice or video chat with other people. Also built in translation tools - both machine translation for text and also a way to correct people's mistakes. You get a couple translations a day for free, but membership isn't too spendy for how much use I get out of it. There are also like learning games and stuff, but I just use it for the social media and chatting aspects.
Turns out there are way more Chinese people learning English than the other way around, so I'm never short of people to chat with if I want. You potentially could use it without speaking Chinese, by relying on translation tools and people wanting to practice their English (my Chinese is still poor so when I chat it's like 80% in English), but it's a language learning app.
If you make an account and ask if anyone wants to chat in English you'll probably get bombarded with messages and find an English speaking pen pal in no time.
Not familiar with HelloTalk - if I'd like to reach out to Chinese comrades and talk to them, is it like an ESL app? Or just a standard social media thing?
Language exchange! You put in the languages you know, and the ones you wanna learn, and it matches you up with people doing the opposite. It's got like a feed like most social media, and also text or voice or video chat with other people. Also built in translation tools - both machine translation for text and also a way to correct people's mistakes. You get a couple translations a day for free, but membership isn't too spendy for how much use I get out of it. There are also like learning games and stuff, but I just use it for the social media and chatting aspects.
Turns out there are way more Chinese people learning English than the other way around, so I'm never short of people to chat with if I want. You potentially could use it without speaking Chinese, by relying on translation tools and people wanting to practice their English (my Chinese is still poor so when I chat it's like 80% in English), but it's a language learning app.
I know nothing of the language, but enjoy learning. Will check it out!
If you make an account and ask if anyone wants to chat in English you'll probably get bombarded with messages and find an English speaking pen pal in no time.
I did sign up for a VIP account, and have gotten a few messages already. Chatting with someone about a basic starting point rn actually :)
That sounds awesome! Thank you!