HiNative - Language Learning التقييمات والمراجعات

Wonderfully Diverse

HiNative is a great way to learn about language and culture through our peers around the world. Even if you don't have any questions to ask others for an extended period of time, or you aren't even learning a language, this app can be a great way to learn about things you never would have know about otherwise. Not to mention you can meet interesting people through it as well.
(I live in the U.S, and the other day I talked with someone in South Korea through HiNative which I thought that was pretty cool).

There are two things I'm not crazy about with this app. One, is that you are unable to hear other people's vocal answers to questions that are not your own, unless you pay money for the app. (I mean, language is a spoken thing, c'mon). The second thing I don't necessarily like is that HiNative has an annoying habit of sending notifications at night while I'm trying to sleep. You can just turn off notifications for that, but then I don't get the occasional interesting question from the app. They just need a better idea of time zones for they're users I think.

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Thanks for this feedback. We're currently working on balancing the regular and Premium versions and will keep everyone's comments and opinions in mind as we continue development!

Awesome, But

I love this idea, and I think it's been very well thought out and implemented. I have a few suggestions for the developers though. I teach esl English - I have a passion for the language and for helping others. I actually found this app addictive, it felt really satisfying to help people express themselves well in English. But in the end I had to give it up, because with all my other duties, I couldn't justify the amount of time I was spending on it. Perhaps there could be some small monetary compensation for people who have proven themselves to be in the top, say, 0.1% of that particular language. That would improve the quality of the whole app, if people like that could be more motivated to spend time on it. Also, perhaps there could be a friendly "strike" system for those who are labeled "highly rated" , say, if they get 3 or 5 disagreements then an actual person could look through their answers and see if they still deserve that title.

Life-changing, underrated self-study resource

The system of and concept behind this app are great. After graduating college and not being in Japanese classes anymore, it’s a great resource for checking in with native speakers without the need for a teacher.

Compared to other apps like HelloTalk, which is more suited for socialization and meeting other language learners, this app is great for getting reliable feedback from actual native speakers. The “does this sound natural” feature is especially helpful because if it sounds natural, natives will vote it as natural very quickly.

And it has a system where the more you help others, the more your reputation goes up, and the more likely it is that your questions will show up at the top and get more answers. In fact, I’ve never had any of my questions ignored before. Just be helpful to others and ask well-worded questions and someone will help you out. It’s really a great little community.

The amount of free features in the app is great as well, and there are almost no ads. But even if I had to pay some fee, this app would still be worth it, because it helps me so much as a solo learner. It seems like the app is being improved a lot recently, so I think they have big plans ahead.

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Thank you for your feedback! If you have any suggestions for how we can improve it, we'd love to hear them! Please feel free to contact us at support@hinative.com.

Putting trust in people who may not actually know what they’re talking about

So I haven’t actually asked anything on here yet, but I have tried to answer a few of the questions for English myself since on studying a few languages I do know a fair bit about grammar and how to point out and explain things. What I’ve noticed immediately is others who claim to be native level may not actually know what they’re talking about or give accurate solutions. Yes, English can be hard, but the amount of errors that can be spotted in “native” level solutions makes me hesitant to ever ask anything in another language on here.
Yes, English is my native language and there are things that I second guess myself on constantly (it doesn’t help that I’m dyslexic) but giving somebody just starting out a solution not only riddled with errors but also with WRONG information as to why it’s done that way can set them back YEARS in learning (I know that can sound hyperbolic, but it’s true in many cases) I’ve seen SO much of this littered in this app. I really don’t trust it, and the fact that I see so many people suggest using it is just disheartening.

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We're sorry you didn't like the app. If you have any suggestions for how we can improve it, we'd love to hear them!

Posting ANYTHING in this costs money

You can answer questions and help all you want for free — and I do like to help people — but you cannot post any sort of question without paying money, regardless of your contributions. This was not made clear up front nor even when selecting any of several post types; instead, it let’s you type out what you want to ask or say and only when you click to post it does it tell you must pay.

I realize that the companies that make these apps need to make money, of course, and so I would expect added value for money — prioritized questions, extra features or helpful templates, things like that.

This app is very good at encouraging you to contribute your time and expertise to it while obfuscating that you won’t be able to ask for anything yourself until you cough up $$$. Again, I really enjoy helping people with editing and language but now knowing everyone paid this company for every question they asked while the help was from my own freely provided time and expertise. I feel used.

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Thanks for this feedback. We're currently working on balancing the regular and Premium versions and will keep everyone's comments and opinions in mind as we continue development!

Love it!~ I have a suggestion though!

As the title says, I love this app! It works smoothly for me and even though I'm not paying monthly (I'm considering it), I stil have access to a lot of great featured! Answers and replies are quick and it's a joy to learn other languages as I help others learn as well! One suggestion I think a lot of users could benefit from is a HiNative chatroom and the ability to add friends. I'm meeting a lot of great people from around the world that I would love to add as friends and keep in touch with (without having to whip out social media). A chatroom could be a bunch of public chatrooms made for users to practice chatting in the languages they want to learn without having to do it under asked questions. I know some users who simply want to work on speaking and writing to others in conversation. Keep up the good work on the app!

So helpful!!!

I love this app so much! I’ve been using it “on and off” for years and recently started using it more frequently again. When we ask questions, there’s always a template you have to pick for your actual question, but in the midst of my “off” season with this app, they added a feature where even free users can add a comment under the template to elaborate on your actual question, and I loveeeee that they did this!!!!! It makes the app much more convenient for getting your questions answered, and this also allows for more discussion amongst people’s answers! I like getting to help answer other people’s questions that they have about English, and I usually only ask questions about Korean or Spanish!

Great idea but translations are needed

A key flaw in this app is not understanding what some people are saying. If someone is writing a question in another language about English, how am I meant to understand and answer their question? I know there are the 4 uses of google translate and a subscription to translate infinitely but 1) not everyone has the financial means for that and 2) that feature is crucial for this app to be useful. Theres also a flaw in the “how do you say this” section because if a user is asking in their foreign language and the reader doesn’t speak it, then there’s no understanding there. At that point the google translate feature can be used by the reader but that almost defeats the whole purpose of asking a question to a native speaker when the reader is just giving them what the asker could have put in google translate themselves.

This is an amazing app that has huge potential if it was developed a bit more.

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Thank you for your feedback. We will keep it in mind as we continue developing the app!

Amazing app!

I’ve been learning two languages for years now, those languages being Japanese and Spanish. I never had trouble with Spanish, as every school I’ve went to provided students with Spanish classes.

However, I never had the money for Japanese classes, and schools don’t commonly offer those (especially not for free), so I’m mainly self-taught. I got this app recommended by one of my high school teachers, who’d briefly lived abroad in Japan; Ever since, this app’s been installed on my phone.

This app is so amazing and people are so kind and willing to assist you! I’ve actually learned a lot here! Highly recommend it for those learning any language, no matter which one it is!

Great app but I think some things could be addressed.

So far I’ve used this app for 3 days and it is doing wonders. I like how I always get a rely to my questions within the same day. There are two things I would like to see changed though, the biggest being the bouncing effect that a reply has. It doesn’t let me read the message clearly until it goes away and it even makes me dizzy. Maybe implement a “new message icon” on top of the message or some other indicator. The second is the fact that there is a limited selection to the Spanish language. It little confusing to see Spanish from other countries when In fact they are all pretty similar except for informal situation. Maybe just keep one label that says “Spanish.” Other than these small issues the app is really great.

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Thank you for your feedback. We will keep it in mind as we continue developing the app!