Name: Awesome FREE App for Learning Japanese! // Get Help From Native Speakers
Uploaded: 2016-09-26T06:52:17.000Z
Duration: 8 min 42 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Today's video is sponsored by the makers of the app

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that I'm going to tell you about in this video.

a big thank you to them because it is such a nice change

that wants me to help them advertise because

Are from companies with really lame products that

when these guys contacted me and I downloaded their app

So big thank you to HiNative for supporting my channel

and I hope you guys are all interested in this app as well.

So what it is is it's a community of people that are all learning different languages

Japanese because most of you guys  are interested in Japanese

But you can actually choose which languages you would like to include in your own

personal community where you use the app.

So I'll go through the whole thing with you guys

I'll start up a new account, and I'll show you how it goes.

I made an account a few weeks ago, and I've actually been using it.

It's been helping me out when I'm translating my videos into Japanese

So if you guys are language learners like me, I would definitely suggest that you download it and try it out.

Alright, so, this is what the app looks like.

It will ask you to sign up with any of these options or you can also just sign up with your email, which I prefer doing.

and then the next screen will ask you what languages you speak.

So you put your native language in the top there

and you can add more if you are completely native in two languages

And then down here you can add which ever other languages you are studying.

And if you are looking for Chinese, it's under Simplified Chinese, or, I guess traditional for the other one.

Capable of making simple questions. Can understand simple answers.

And... i'm currently studying Korean, so I'm going to put Korean in here

So there we go, you get your languages and once you are all done, click next.

Now, it will give you a short explanation of the app.

HiNative is a Q&A platform for asking questions about language and culture to native speakers.

So it's basically just a community of language learners.

You can answers questions too! So, yeah, it's totally up to you.

You can use this app for asking your own questions

but if you see some questions on here that you feel confident in answering yourself

you can help out people by answering their questions.

So, let's try to answer your first practice question.

What do you eat for breakfast in your country?

And now, It will show you how you can ask a question.

So there are several formats of questions you can ask

and then there is a blank for you to write whatever you want to say.

so these are all the different types of questions that you can ask.

How do you say this, does this sound natural?

And then there's like rating systems, where they can choose how natural the sentence you wrote sounds.

Please show me some example sentences with blank

What does this mean? what is the difference?

You can ask the difference between two terms  or two phrases is.

And then there's free question where you can ask whatever you like.

So, how do you say this in... yeah let's go with Japanese.

Last time I did this, I got an answer right away and someone's like, "Hey, I watch you videos!"

And I felt really stupid cause I was like, "How do you say this in Japanese?: Peach"

Once you've got your questions all typed up, you just press post!

So there's my question at the top there. If you scroll down, there are some other questions that people have asked.

Now these questions are all about Japanese. If you'd like to see the Korean questions

And Simplified Chinese, because I also said I can speak a little bit of that.

So it only shows the languages that you are interested in here.

Which is nice, it keeps it nice and stream-lined. It doesn't get crowded.

So let's just wait a few minutes and see how long it takes for somebody to answer my question.

I know there are quite a few native Japanese people using this app.