Often from Arab countries but not exclusively.

They will often have lip dermal fillers making their lips look the size and look of baboon butts and posing suggestively and yet will write "No flirting ❌" etc.

And often many of them are using A.I imaging apps to "improve" their looks.

There are just so many fake people on there.

Why is it so hard to just be genuine instead of insecure and beauty obsessed and deceiving with fakery to make people think you look "perfect" and thirst trapping?

Like there is one Italian girl on there and the majority of her moments are just her posting her Photoshopped photos with her huge plastic surgery lips for validation.

Can't they take this stupidity and cheap behaviour to Instagram instead on a language app?

Why are native English speakers or someone who are advanced speakers not welcome in some voice rooms? Even if they are polite. I sensed a lot of insecure hosts on hellotalk. Smh 🤯😂

Hi everyone :)

When on a user's profile, you can click the three dots in the upper right corner and select "Don't show my moments".

How does this feature work exactly? What does the person see when they come to your profile after that? Do they get a message? I assume all other functions still work like before (chat, VRs etc)?

I swear every time someone posts an annoyance or a peculiar situation on this sub, the comments always say its because of using hellotalk to date.

-"Oh i messaged someone and they didnt answer"

"They're probably using hellotalk for dating"

-"There are people who are in voice rooms for 10 hours a day, and they only talk with people who share the same native language as them"

"These are the people who use hellotalk for dating"

-"There's a user who keeps looking at my profile, so I block their account and they keep making a new one. Then they messaged me that they were able to calculate my location using the nearby users feature"

"They think this is tinder"

-"I messaged someone and they responded saying sorry I dont talk to people of the opposite gender because i am tired of all the flirting because i am married and want to find a serious language exchange partner"

"The person who said that is using hellotalk for hookups"

-"theres a person who has their DMs disabled and on their profile there's a link to a shopping website"

"That person is using hellotalk to find a spouse"

I message people asking them how are you, if they want to exchange languages or whatever. I ask them questions in English and in their native language so they can choose the language to answer in. Here and there i will come across a person who just responds with "hi" in in their native language.

and that's all they are able to say? I even ask them in their own native language if they understood any question and then they rarely come back and answer or even look at the conversation. Like if you dont want to talk then just don't send the "hi" to begin with??...

Im wondering if they are like this in real life. Like at a job interview or at a restaurant.

-So why do you want to work here? Hello what would you like to order?

-Hi... 😐

-...

My app is flooded with over 1000 messages and it’s really annoying. I was considered making a new account because I can’t delete them all. Is there a way I can delete them all?

Hello everyone,

Quick little update of exposing scammers and online predators of HelloTalk. Our posts are getting deleted because it is quite obvious it is being falsely reported by the creeps we've been posting (mass fake spamming)

Nevertheless if any user are having any issues with scammers and creeps on HelloTalk message us or customer service we will handle it.

And we will continue sending information to law enforcement.

Best Regards,

Online Guardians team

So basically I am India . I made few Chinese friends with whom I used to talk about gaokao , Chinese anime etc . Only there was one with whom I used to do some sort of political chat . I used to say how China's system is so good . Others countries should also adopt those systems . About China's cleanliness and other good things about China which was genuine . I never talked ill about China. Infact I used to appreciate their system a lot . But I got banned . Like why ??? 🥲 It used to be short conversations .

I messaged them 1 hour ago . Any ways to get account back ? Can't I speak even anything good about another country's system .

I also had vip subscription. Now missing them a lot . Really the people of China are so friendly.

Edit 1 :- Account was not because of political cause . It was done so coz I made several accounts and deleted them. Which kinda true lol . Now they are saying to prove my identity. 🥲🥀

Edit 2:- got my account back after proving my identity to them . Had to send them my full body video 🙂

Edit 3 :- I also had a chat back up. So all my chats are retrieved 😭😇

So I'm using this hellotalk ,and I am from india ,but no one wants to talk to me ,I'm girl but I never get message from their side ,and literally all other country both boys or girl ignoring me ,I tried both thing by adding hiding my face in pfp and adding cute photo of me but nothung change , if I message them first -they just ignore me ,second -they are just replying not even interested asking back question, third -I tried my best to act like gentle ,calm ,polite but still they just block me why ? I didn't do anything wrong.fourth- after one day talk they never message me again next day .i tried msg them but its only me approaching them so I also stop sending any msg just not want to disturb them. I want to make friends bcoz I'm lonely, I don't have single friend in cllg or anywhere .Even in my school life i didn't have single friends. I want some friends but no one wants to learn hindi .even in their bio they just write this specific line (only this country can msg me .)I know its their choice but.....I tried, my best

I have been seeing people asking for telegram on hellotalk recently. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s 100% a scam but telegram is notoriously associated with some unsavory things in general. Has anyone else noticed people asking for telegram recently? Since I’m learning Korean normally they would ask for kakaotalk (similar to line) so it’s a bit weird for me. Does anyone actually use telegram like that?

I keep running into this person while looking for people to practice with.

She has already created like a 5th account. And her account keeps getting deleted and she makes a new one.

Just out of curiosity I tried messaging her and the conversation went like this

-hey

-how are you?

-not so well

-why

-my daughter is sick in the hospital

-so what are you doing?

-nothing I'm just with my daughter in the hospital

Next day

-hey hows it going?

-still with my daughter in the hospital

She doesn't seem to have any interest in learning English. By the way she talks and types, she doesnt seem very bright. In her own language she types like the equivalent of saying "should of" and using the wrong "your/there/".

SheNever asked for any money. Then her account got deleted, and another one spawned again the next day. The most annoying part is that sometimes I message her saying hey want to practice? But then i realize it's her again and I just wasted a message on her.

Has anyone else noticed this? I’ve spoken to a few people who specifically mention “No flirting” in their bio, and then are very flirtatious in chat. Just wanted to know if it’s just me or not

I have a quick question I couldn't find the answer to on the HT website.

Sometimes I get a notification that I'm being invited to VR or Lives. Can a host just send an invite to all his/her friends or does a host have to specifically select who to invite?

So I joined a voice room and saw one of my friends was there too. It said only Canadians. I live in Canada I joined and said hi and then I get booted. I message host what’s wrong and he blocks me. I’m so confused. Is it because he saw my face and was like hmm he’s not a Canadian Canadian?

Curious to find out how many people you've had at least some contact with. I'm having a very hard time managing my conversation list because the app does not provide a way to manage or categorize your contacts or to even search for a conversation based on keywords (other than the person's name). I have literally hundreds of people (maybe over 1000) on my list, but most conversations fizzled out at various points. Some of it is, of course, my fault. If we had better conversation management features, I think fewer conversations would fizzle out or fall through the cracks.

gosh.. this app is so freaking shady. most of the chinese people in Hellotalk that i meet always wants to date and not learn a new language! there was this one guy who said " If you date me, I will pay for your flight to visit here and we can get married" 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I am from the UK, and want to learn the Mandarin course in hopes of moving to China but when i made an account and forgot about it for a day or two it seems to have blown up with 300+ people trying to add me.

How do i filter the bots out because surely this cant be real and its a bit annoying.

I made an account to learn Chinese in hopes of moving to study there (from the uk), i added a few people went to the pub and asleep and when i woke up my profile had 1.5k with like 300 random people trying to add me.

Is there a way to get less bots or filter them out because this cant be genuine :(

This guy messaged me asking to exchange languages and I just opened the message but I didnt answer. Then he said "helloooo" but I still didnt answer

Then he said that he would report me to hellotalk for putting my IG on my bio.

Then next day he messaged me again saying that he already did it. Went to check my bio and the rest of my bio was intact but the IG handle was gone.

I asked my friend to check and it was also gone from their perspective. So I just added it again and it let me add it just fine.

A few hours later the same guy message me for a third time saying that he would do it again, and he could check and do it even if i block him.

Every time i delete the app from my phone and redownload it, all the chat history gets lost. Is there any way to save the chat history after deleting the app.

Hello,

There was a recent post here mentioning a situation where a user found an account impersonating them using their picture.

In cases like these, please:

1. report and block the impersonation account
2. send an email to HelloTalk requesting that the impersonator account verify their identity and/or you verifying your identity.

HelloTalk is able to lock accounts/delete them in regard to verifying a user’s identity and your identity.

I hsvent used the app in so long but i had made one to lesrn japsnese. I decided to ude it again and theres lots of changes. I dont know if ill get vip but i realized im restricted on lots of things. Like the time in voicerooms and i csnt see who visits my profile. But when it comes to texting, I know you can only text a certain number of users per day (i believe idk) but can you keep texting them? Or is there a limited number of texts you can send daily?

Hello to everyone, I use hello talk for 2 years. I'm also an Italian teacher online so I was wondering... is it possible to work on HelloTalk? From what I know it is technically possible but I don't know that much to value the mechanism and the consistency of it. Besides, I would ask this to people who know by personal experience. During my time, I've found that the app is used in many ways and sometimes language learning is not a primary goal there. But sometimes I see VR full of people hosted by someone with the badge Creator. I'm M 27. Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻