hi guys and welcome back to love English I'm Layla and I'm Sabra and today we've
got a rather different lesson for you we are going to be reviewing an app that
can help you learn English and as well explore the English culture and it's
actually a universal app because it represents a hundred and ten languages
which is a lot of languages really so it is a language and cultural
question-and-answer app it's basically creating a community for people learning
about other languages and cultures which is incredible so it's called high native
guys and they've asked us to do a review video which we have done and being very
impressed in fact I'd go so far as to say we love it
we really do so Sabra and I are both learning Italian and we love the Italian
culture so we have decided to actually use the app ourselves see how it'll do
so guys it's free which is fantastic everybody loves a freebie I do but if
you wanted a more specialized service and what your questions aren't quickly
then you could go for the premium service so there is that option as well
but if you just want to use it on a day-to-day basis it's free which is
fantastic the other great thing is that you can sign in from iOS Android and
Laila you can even get it on your web browser so we'll put a link in the
description box below to this lesson and you don't need to download any software
which is brilliant so basically guys it is a platform where native speakers will
ask and answer questions to each other so for example I could go on there and I
have tell you about that later and I could answer questions about British
culture correct other people's sentences and help them out with their English but
I could also ask for example a question in Korean and I could say how is my
Korean for this or I could say where's the best place in sale to drink soju
Korean vodka right and of course you can also ask native speakers to define terms
for you in their language they can also correct your sentences so if you're
practicing the language that you are learning they'll correct it for you tell
you if it sounds natural or not and there is even a pronunciation feature oh
yeah ward yourself okay guys so we are
actually gonna trial this out it's a review so we really want to test this
app and see if it really lives up to our expectations that's right I tried it
earlier and I really really liked it but we're gonna walk you through it step by
steps and show you how it works so I downloaded it earlier and I'm just
gonna go into the app now okay so here we are on the app now you can
sign in with Twitter Facebook if you have a lang-8 account which is the the
makers of this app of high native however we're just gonna go with our
email address so you need a username let's call ourselves love English see if
that's available looks like it's not love English someone else has lovely 21
our age huh there we go and our email address is
love English love learning I'd I love learning at gmail.com at gmail whoo
okay we're on so once you have logged in and signed up then you can choose your
native language now we're going to imagine that we are non natives hmm
we're imagining that English is not our first language pallav new non-glare okay
so which is your native language our native language is you wouldn't be
French okay French and the language we are
interested in early hindi we're interested in how to learn about here
but we can't test if the answers are right in Hindi yeah okay so they were
interested in English English where is English oh there we go
English English UK English us let's go English UK yes thank you very much okay
my English UK now the great thing about this app is you can also say what level
you are at so if you look you've got beginner beginner intermediate
intermediate or advanced so this that really is for everybody that's the great
thing let's say that we're beginner intermediate let's say that we're
intermedia okay into okay alright so there we go so we can
add you can have more than one language but we're just gonna stick with English
for now right okay now do we want to receive the newsletter sure okay great
okay so we're gonna get a newsletter you don't mind a newsletter you can unselect
that little arrow I'm guessing okay so we've got lots of
different features and it walks you through all of them and it gives you
yeah is this natural so we're just gonna go through this so guys we're going to
go through some of the types of questions that you can ask so the first
one is how do you say this which makes total sense and I think okay so we're
gonna test some of these question features that you can ask hi native see
if they actually work so I've already asked how do you say
bonjour imagining I'm French in English okay so I typed in Bonjour Oh nan joha
surprisingly no and I entered that and the answer came back and the answer did
come back got your notification early oh well my notification okay so go to
cancel from here you go to notifications and somebody said oh so a lovely person
so someone is replied and said good morning which is absolutely correct
Bonjour would translate to good morning and English so really quick really
really fast I don't think you can expect it to always be that fast but obviously
if someone's online and they're willing to answer your questions it's great
fabulous yes so if you were for example in Korea and you wanted to know how to
say how do I say how are you in Korean someone would reply and say that's great
brilliant now for our learners we really want this app to help you stop using
Google Translate as much because you're actually relying on a native speaker
here yeah google translate is not always reliable because things don't always
translate the way you put them in directly to a translator it will
directly translate instead of looking for an equivalent phrase which we might
use so yes this works much better it's like having Google with a person
yeah okay questions so uh does this sound natural okay so this question is
about English UK right so does this like ... so does this sound natural let's
try i fancy going to the cinema that's very natural let's see if they know that
I'm fancy let's try I fancy to go oh yeah testing them out
cinema cinema cinema okay alright so we just post question yep
okay done all right so we'll wait post Sabrah
knows how to use this better than me okay we'll wait for our answer the options are
natural a little unnatural unnatural or I don't understand you okay so we'll
have a look back in a minute they correct you on that one let's have a look in a
moment we'll check back please show me examples
with what does this mean or what's the difference so I think they could correct you
on that one if they wanted to they could say no in this case we would say I fancy
which you all know it is going isn't it let's see if they know okay let's try
another one Leila what does what does this mean give me a funny word what does
scrumptious mean in English scrum how do you spell scrumptious tea IOUs you put
it there ooh in a text okay I think you need to ask what does scrumptious mean
what does scrumptious mean and there we go question mark yeah okay post let's see
if they know scrumptious meaning delicious meaning lovely she's doing the
work for the app wait so let's have a look if I got any notifications yet
not yet nearly oh yeah okay and I think we should really look at the pronunciation the
please show me how to pronounce or how's my pronunciation okay I can do a do
want to do a something so we have to there's a record here so I'm gonna press
record I'll do an Italian accent okay ready I want to go to a coffee shop
how is my pronunciation my pronuncia
how is my pronunciation cool success, we've got something on someone's answered that
that was your notification. Oh was it my notification? I just....someone notified me immediately
what does scrumptious mean okay uh what scrumptious mean,
something delicious really cool, that is correct really cool
Can I comment and say thank you thank you so much I just wanna say thank you its polite, so guys
if you were going to visit England or to visit America imagine how useful this
would be to ask questions about words you didn't understand or phrases you
wanted to know were correct or checking the pronunciation of things maybe you
were worried that somebody didn't understand you and you wanted to know
where you mispronouncing it could record yourself and see while we're waiting I
can tell them that earlier I went on the app and I asked a question so I said I
was interested in learning Hindi and I asked a question I said how do you say
Laila you're my best friend and apparently it is in Hindi we want you to
tell us guys is this correct hopefully it is Laila need to a Mary sub say Aikido school
Laila - Mary sub say a keto stove that should be Leila you are my best friend in
Hindi oh it's so useful 110 languages actually is very very very very clever
we've been very impressed and the other thing we should tell you is that as a
native speaker yourself of whatever language you speak as your first
language you can respond to questions being asked by people asking those
questions and you can see here oh I've got an I've got an answer I'll just tell you
this you can see here that if you respond to them how do you say hello how
do you say hello how are you in English UK I could write back and tell them okay
so let's have a look my notification how do you say bonjour I know that's the
same one scrumptious he's talked back to you ah what's he said something
delicious thank you so much I was giving you an example yeah great
you said like for example a scrumptious breakfast
you can like it and you can give him make this featured answer yes and then I
believe that you get tickets and points for how many questions you've answered yeah
and well you do it which is also great so it really does feel like a community
which I think is fantastic very exciting okay okay so we haven't got
the pronunciation back when I do I'll let you know okay so I think that's
enough about hi native if you do want to check it out then you can go to the
links in the description below and of course you can also just go to the App
Store and download it yourself for free that's right guys go ahead and do it
have some fun we've had some fun with it Leila that's really cool it takes a
little bit of figuring out but it's it's quite straight forward
yeah its very straight forward once you get used to it yeah thank you so much hi native for
asking us to do a review for you we had lots of fun and as we've said we've
really enjoyed the app and we're sure that lots of our students will as well
and we will be using it thanks very much bye guys