okay real talk today every youtuber who does language learning channels is recommending
this app and that app and it's going to change your life and it's going to make
you super fluent and it probably won't and they probably didn't even use it themselves when they
were in the process of learning that language but you see it's not just about the app that
is gonna make it or break it in your language learning it's about how you use it and if you're
using it the right way or not this is my big secret today all right if you want to know it then
stick around because you're going to find out well all the shy people out there are not going
to like this but you have to talk to human beings if you want to study a language it's key and no
app is going to be able to replace that Emi san would you believe i met 200 people 200 people
yeah getting better at a language means making a lot of mistakes through interacting with
other people but luckily there are apps out there that can help introduce you to people
over the course of about three years i met over 200 people for language exchange through this
app hellotalk whether it was in person or on the phone i was doing this about
two or three times a week it was huge for my progress when learning chinese and japanese
all that marketing hustle out there would like to tell us that we can just easily open up an
app on our phone and practice a little bit every day and become fluent but that's not how it works
if you want to improve your speaking skills in another language don't start with an app
do what i did start with pimsleur that's how i started with japanese i listened to audio lessons
every single day on my commute after a few weeks of studying use the hellotalk
search feature to find someone in your area or someone you can talk to
on the phone who's a native speaker and that is the best way to reinforce what you've learned
okay we're going up to the station the first person should be waiting there don't feel nervous
After you. Thank you so much.
oh yeah when you come to language exchange make sure you come prepared bring something you don't
necessarily have to uh just follow the book but it's good to have a book with you
Did you do your makeup okay so normally when i do language exchange today's gonna be 30 minutes 30 minutes so
30 minutes of japanese 30 minutes of english we will start with english i'll bring my A-Game
today emmy brought her a game to study english
i brought my A-Game.
now i'm not saying that you can't learn anything from an app even hello talk has some cool features
like this sentence correcting feature here which is pretty useful but a lot of the thing that
makes people fail is that they put way too much emphasis on stuff like this and they have really
high expectations when it's just a tool a lot of people get frustrated with some of the apps out
there for language learning they think oh this app is no good that app that app is no good especially
an app like hellotalk the trick is a lot of people are using it the wrong way if you're frustrated
with it it's probably because you're sitting there waiting for people to come to you you're not going
to people and they're also waiting for you to come to them so why not make the first move in fact you
should you need to utilize the search features so i searched for people in the tokyo area i looked
through all the different districts of tokyo to find people that were close to me and and free
and they had a lot of spare time just like i do if you want to do language exchange online then the
world is open to you because they can literally be anywhere in the world you can talk to them
so that's how you do it you need to utilize the search features don't get frustrated and say
this app is no good nobody wants to talk to me you got to ask did you make an effort yourself
and if the answer is no then well that's why it's not working so i'm encouraging you to
sign up sign up today it's completely free there's no reason not to sign up just give it a try
and start sending messages this is the trick this is what nobody else tells you in these youtube
videos about language exchange or about hello talk is you've got to use the search features
nobody uses the search features i can't figure out why send out mass messages and
the more you send out the more likely someone's going to respond you're going to get someone
to practice with because as it turns out everybody's just waiting for everyone else
to make a move it's like a very boring game of chess so just go out there make the move first
and that's how you do it you kind of put yourself out there you know like with many things in life