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  • 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!

  • *quiet laughing*

  • *more quiet laughing*

Hey guys!

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