Hey guys!
If you follow our Twitter, you probably know that's where we post most of our updates,
and respond to the majority of comments.
After several years of twitter,
hundreds of YouTube videos later--
some of them going viral like our fox village video--
and basically all of Jun's cooking videos,
do you know what video we consistently get the most comments about?
A sponsored video
I did a year and a half ago for a language exchange app
where you can make friends in other countries.
Turns out, like I titled my video,
a lot of you actually did end up making friends
and you still tweet me about it all the time.
Which is actually awesome, I´m really happy for you.
So for the 370,000 of you who subscribed since that video,
probably including all of you who keep messaging me
and asking me how you can make penpals and friends,
you might really be interested in this app.
And for those of you who already know about it:
they have some new functions, which I'm gonna go over today as well.
HelloTalk is a free phone app that basically acts like a social media site,
except you post in the language you're trying to learn,
and native users of that language correct you.
And then, in return, you help correct their mistakes.
You set up a profile
with as much or little personal information as you want
stating the languages you're learning
and how proficient you are,
and other users who are learning the language you speak
and speak the language you're learning can send you messages.
You can limit who can send you messages if you want
by age, gender, language etc.
and they're very strict about the app not being used as a dating site
so it's easy to block and report anyone
who starts making you feel uncomfortable.
They have features like translation, transliteration,
voice-to-text and audioreading.
And the newest function that they added is called "moments",
which is kind of like a Facebook wall or Twitter feed
except, again, it's for language learning,
so everyone can correct anyone else.
Okay, let's find a new friend.
So I'm gonna use the feed function,
and this is just random people.
And I'm gonna look for someone interesting.
Aaaw, kitty! Okay.
So here's Amber,
who posted about a kitty...
and people already corrected her English.
Oh cool, she's online.
And oh, she's my age, too! So that's great.
And I can message her.
So I sent her a message and she can respond to that
if she wants to talk to me.
I wanna see what else she has posted.
So... *laughs*
I think we can be best friends.
"My parents came home from America this week.
They brought present for their friend and other my family,
but they forgot to get me one for me."
So I can correct this.
So if I click on "correct"
...my family, but they forgot to get one for me.
So I've corrected this.
And you can write your own comments, too,
and respond to them
so you can be friendly.
Oh hey! She just posted something new!
"This heater is very..."
...wait a second....
this looks like...OMG!
HAKU!
Okay, so we made this Haku account, like, two hours ago
while we were planning this video
and right away people started liking his posts
and like adding him as a friend
and I feel kind of bad about that
because he's not a real person, he can't follow you back
I'm really sorry.
But thank you all for everyone who was
being super proactive and friendly to Haku.
Anyway, I really think this app is super useful,
tons of Japanese people here use it,
you will--pretty easily, I think--be able to find
Japanese people to talk to.
In real life I've talked to some people who use this app
and they've told me that the've spoken to
Japanese people on it,
who then mentioned that they watch our channel.
which was really cool.
So thank you guys who watch our channel
and I´m sorry about all the people who message me still
that I haven't responded to because
it's too...there are so many people,
I wasn't expecting that many people to follow us
when I gave my username in the last video.
So...I won't do it now although it's pretty easy to find.
If you have any experiences with HelloTalk
that you want to share, you can post them down in the comments below.
Thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you later. Bye!
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