HelloTalk

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HelloTalk
Shenzhen XinHui Technology Co., Ltd. (深圳心慧科技有限公司)
Company type Language exchange
Instant messaging
Founded2012 [1]
FounderZackery Ngai
Headquarters
Shenzhen
,
China
Number of employees
50
Website Web version

HelloTalk is a language exchange app and website released in 2012. It is monetized using the freemium model. [2] It was created by Chinese developer Zackery Ngai.

Contents

As of April 2020, the mobile app has around 200 languages to exchange in. It is available on Android and iOS app stores.

History

The app is maintained by HelloTalk Inc. based in Shenzhen, China. The company has an estimated 50 employees.

Over half of the users are from China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The CEO, Zackery Ngai (Wei Lihua), stated in 2023 that the app has over 1 million paid users and makes several million CNY monthly in revenue. [3]

In 2016, the app was reported to have 3 million users. [4] In May 2018, it reached 10 million users. [5] [6] It grew significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 20 million downloads in 2020. [6]

Features

HelloTalk is a freemium app, so certain features are limited or unavailable without becoming a member. For example, free users can only choose one foreign language to find partners for, but paid members can choose up to 23 languages. [6]

After a language is chosen, the user will be paired with native speakers of it who are interested in learning the user's own native language.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Choudhury, Saheli (2016-06-03). "Get fluent in the language of Game of Thrones, or 100 others, on HelloTalk". CNBC.
  2. ↑ "HelloTalk VIP: Lifetime Subscription, save 87%". Geeky Gadgets. 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
  3. ↑ "HelloTalk创始人魏立华专访 | 老外也要学外语，中国在线教育产品全球化之路" (in Chinese). 2023-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Shenzhen-based start-up's app can help you learn Game of Thrones' fictional language". South China Morning Post . 2016-06-03. Archived from the original on 2016-06-07.
  5. ↑ "HelloTalk Language Learning App Surpasses 10 Million Users". Global Banking & Finance Review . 2018-06-01.
  6. 1 2 3 蒋秋霞 (2020-10-16). "HelloTalk: 深耕一对一语言交换学习" (in Chinese).
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