HiNative - Language Learning

I think this app is really helpful for beginner up to expert level learners. Not only can you read answers to your questions, but in some cases, listen as well. For ex., I'm having a really hard time speaking the language I'm learning, though I can read it fairly easily. So, the audio portion of this app is super helpful to me. That said, I do think it is ridiculous that you have to have a paid subscription to hear 10sec audios on other questions when you can leave ones for free. Overall 4.7 ⭐️

One of the most useful resourses for learning any language. You can ask native speakers of your target language (no matter what that language is) any question you could ever possibly think to articulate, including questions about pronunciation. If you decide to pay for the premium it's definitely worth it, but even if you don't you won't feel like you're being cheated. I personally think the most useful feature is pronunciation correction. 10/10 definitely recommend this app.

This has been one of the best apps for learning Japanese. When I come across things I don't understand, words I'm not sure how to pronounce, or basically anything related to the Japanese language, I'm able to ask native Japanese speakers and get detailed answers. FOR FREE. And it feels nice helping others who are trying to learn English too. I highly recommend this app for everyone trying to learn or practice another language.

Having personal critiques for your language study from native speakers is awesome! I found this app on a YouTube video. I'm a premium member. However I didn't know the membership amount for the entire year would be taken out of my account all at once. I thought it was a monthly membership. I wish that was made clearer. I guess I'm using it for the rest of the year now. Not really a bad thing. ☺

It is still building community so it's not very useful yet. The app functions smoothly but there is still so much random trash being posted that it needs moderators who can bring the app up to the likes of stack overflow.

the app is really good and has helped me a lot throughout my language studies, but I'm begging the developers to add the option to turn the AI assistent off. the whole point of the app is to get help from other people, and the bot's unnecessary and incompetent blabbering adds nothing but frustration.

Fantastic. Good community on here too. Ask and answer questions, learn and progress.

App is fine, I guess. 99% of the help is in English though, so if you're looking for help in another language you likely won't get it. This app also sends out several hundred emails a day with absolutely no way to shut it off. Deleting my account specifically because of the harassing amount of emails. Edit: they responded with the same link that leads to nowhere useful and ignored everything else, cos they dont care at all about fixing problems 😂 I've already deleted my account and uninstalled

I love this app!! People help me so much with my Korean and Latin, and they correct me if I make mistakes! I definitely recommend this app as it has really helped me progress. Also, everyone is really nice, they dont make fun of the mistake you made, and they are super grateful when I help others!! I have helped lots of people with their English, lots of people who speak Japanese or French or whatever, learn so much on this app! 10/10 definitely!!👏🏻

It's a bit of a mixed bag. I use it for free, so can't complain too loudly. I find it silly that one should have to pay to be able to provide feedback / quality control on other user's voice messages as it cuts out valuable input. And I think it would be a good idea to check for duplicates, there's no point in having the difference between two words explained 500 times, often badly. Same applies for one word questions, for most language combinations an online dictionary will do a far better job.

You can hardly do anything without paying an outrageous monthly fee. You can make a post asking "how do you say this word in this language", but as soon as you try to ask "what's the difference between these two words" or anything else more useful than consulting a dictionary, you get notified that asking real, informative questions is "a feature for premium users only". This would be somewhat justifiable if the app wasn't also littered with ads and spam accounts.

The app itself is lovely. But i have to reinstall it many times.. I don't know if something is wrong, but after a while, like after i posted some questions, my app froze and unable to post anything. It'll just load forever. I tried waiting it once like more than 15 minutes and still nothing happened. Please if this a bug or something, fix it real soon.

The best app I ever used for studying languages. Without it, I would be nothing, or at least my language skills would suffer greatly. I am an avid language-learner (I speak 7 languages), so I bought the premium version; however, I do feel like the free version offers plenty of useful functions as well. The only downside: Every so often I get random pop-ups from the app on my phone trying to teach me random phrases in languages I am not interested in. Why? I don't even speak Chinese...

I wanna say that this app is a great way to study languages more in depth, and help others with the same goal as well. But the main reason I gave 3 stars is that people whose native language isn't very popular will have trouble gaining points for helping out other people. I am one of those people. You should make it easier to gain points for languages with fewer learners. Basically, you should make it more balanced pls.

I like it a lot. It's not without its faults and things you just can't figure out. But by far, a breath of fresh air. I am not even able to compare it to anything. I'm still getting the hang of it. It is a compliment to my painless Spanish book. Also, I can ask about my other Language "Signing"🤛✊👆“American Sign Language is in high demand“.The forum is helpful and so far, no trolls behaving badly. I'm not in it enough,seriously. I will as I have 2 apps to explore &the orther is out of my league

I have so much fun making use of my knowledge in my native language. The internet usually brings out the worst in people. Conversely, with this app, I have so many authentically good and productive interactions with people. It fulfills a sense of usefulness. There are options for all kinds of teaching: correcting pronunciation, comparing words by definition, giving example sentences for words, and my personal favorite peer-review.

It depends on native speakers to correct. They aren't language teachers. I saw that fluent English speakers often (20%?) gave incorrect grammar answers. "A apple." If you are a beginner, that won't matter as much, but if you are intermediate and working on grammar, this is not a good way and it's very inefficient. I'm not counting on getting correct grammar responses for my Spanish because so many English answers are wrong. Too many notifications and all the awards are like for kids.

So far the set-up of the profile already does not bode well. When selecting my native language at first it would only let me pick one. Going back into the section after saving it I then added my second native language, which it then automatically set to "near fluent"...I don't think near fluent can be adecuate for a native speaker. Now I cannot change this, because the section can only be changed every two days. The features of the app will sure prove more useful, but the technology is not great

The software overall is pretty decent. Been with it for year. Probably 4+ however it's sad to see it just declining. They're getting more money hungry. Now if someone writes to you in their language you have to pay for translation. Definitely wasn't the case before. They keep pressuring you to pay money for the software which is ashame.

I did try to use this app but I found a lot of the content you have to pay for, for example if you want to translate an answer it is paywalled, if you want to play an audio answer it is paywalled. I understand the payment options for priority questions obviously the developers need to make money, but the other restrictions seem unjustified especially as they're restrictions on accessing user generated content.