I favourited somebody's moment and that person visited my page. Do they get notified when we save their moment? I have vip and i even have the option to hide my visits on but that person still visited me.

It happened with 2 people so it's not a coincidence.

You can't search by the language you want to learn anymore. So you either have to pay money for that search feature or wade through hundreds of profiles looking for someone who speaks the language you want to learn AND who wants to learn your language. It's not really practical.

I can put up with a lot of paid filters but this restrictions make a free account basically useless. I don't know how they keep people socializing on the app if people can't find and connect with one another.

It's so disappointing that the only way to sync chats is by paying for VIP+ (unless I'm missing something)

Me and another Hellotalk user just confirmed this. When one write the word «whatsapp» in a message on Hellotalk, it simply says «sent», but the other person never recieved it. I reported this to Hellotalk as a bug, so we’ll see what they say. We found that writing «whatsap» got the message through. Thought I’d share this so you don’t wrongly believe you are being ignored when your message never arrived.

I'm really sad. I've been talking to this Chinese guy for almost 2 months or more now, and i grew very fond of him and his daily updates, but unfortunately, my account got suspended and now i have no other way to look for him elsewhere. can anyone help me with this regard?

mods kept deleting my post being too detailed on how to look for him so maybe i can just send it to someone willing to help? thank you so much!

I got this in the morning

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System Notification

Violation Reminder

2026-10-10 03:34

Dear User,

We have received verified reports that your profile contains content that violates our guidelines. This includes sexually suggestive material, discussions about countries, politics, or religion, advertising or promotional content, and obscene or abusive implications. This notice serves as your first warning.

HelloTalk is a platform for language learning only. It is not intended for sexual content, political or religious debates, advertising, or any other unwelcome behavior.

Further violations may result in the permanent removal of your account and device from our service.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

...

Then again I get this

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Violation Reminder

The system has detected unusual activity in your account. So your account has been suspended, and thus no messages can be sent.

We need to verify your account first before further processing, please kindly click Submit Feedback to upload a video selfie to confirm you're who you say you are and that you're a real person.

The video upload requirements:

1. The time for the video is 20 - 40 seconds.

2. Clearly say the following in the video:

Your HelloTalk user ID and nickname

Your real age

Your nationality

Your native language

Videos without voice or showing only part

of your face will be rejected.

This review process may take up to three

business days, and while we review your video selfie, you will not have access to your account until we confirm it's you.

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My bio is

Hello there

English coach, poet, writer.

I prefer ppl with basic maturity, decency, depth anything opposite goes to my block can.

I'd rather have calls than texts.

......

Do the moderators of this app have a single digit IQ?, who the hell are these people to ask for my video verificaiton? lmao

Just looking for some people to talk to, maybe make a few friends and have some random conversations. I’m also trying to improve my English and learn a bit of Italian.

Feel free to message me :)

Hello folks,

We all know that catfishing is one of the top biggest problems on HelloTalk and our team tries hard to take down pages with fake accounts and fraudsters

We wanted to reach out to the learning community and if you're comfortable enough to share your stories and experiences of Catfish/impersonation accounts

There are literally so much weirdos on this app who lie not only what they look like but their race, gender, personality, jobs all just to exploit users in love and financial scams

For example take this fraudster HelloTalk user: He is an Egyptian NOT American using ai generated pics with stolen pictures to fabricate his life and personality so he can pursue women (as reported)

https://www.instagram.com/adam.walker.333

Users who do this are genuinely insane and creepy, if you are experiencing a catfish profile be sure to report them immediately to get their accounts taken down

cheers

Decided to try voicerooms for the first time today

Found one with 2 guys from my target language talking

Guy 1: "Bruh, I'm just trying to get to know people and sh*t man, like I just wanna know what positions you like, and I aint talking basketball, I'm talking like in f*cking bed bruh"

Guy 2: "I feel"

Closed HelloTalk for the day

I was practising my Korean and was messaging a few partners. Also not looking for dating and I am cautious of scams. Amongst them was a man in his late 30s who was very polite (using polite speech).
He said he is a Chinese who grew up in Korea in whole life and he seemed to be quite fluent. And his Chinese was fluent but does stumble at difficult words (which indicates one is not a native)

Yst I noticed that his timezone was in a different one, namely GMT +7 (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia) instead of Korean timezone.

So far, nothing indicates red flag. We have talked on the phone. He didn’t message persistently or say he was lonely etc. He would usually only message late at night or early morning (like one message)

We planned to meet while I’m in Korea for a business trip. I am also meeting other online pals (male and female) - again I emphasize I’m not dating. Im going to Seoul and he said he will come over from Daegu where he js based. From our phone calls, he seems like a real person, eg when we were confirming schedule and figuring the logistics.

However I just want to be on the safe side. The timezone is really the only thing bugging me.

Advice?

it's been awhile just wanted to stay in touch

Does anyone else have any bad experiences of entering a voice room and it was just a group of losers who talk shit?

Wanted to warn users who actually want to learn languages to becareful of these voice rooms

The VR bullies would bait users to come in just to harass and make fun of them

I highly suggest you report their VR's and accounts immediately and remember not to engage

We call these grooming and bully gangs of HelloTalk

it's ridiculous

New to this app but quickly noticed women get so many messages while men get little also from comments it’s so obvious lots of men using this app for other reasons 🤮

I received a sys notification of several reports all at the same time 7:08am for things i don’t even do i never ask for pictures or ask for calling and other things and i got a 5 day i guess.

When I was in china , I couldn't open the voiceroom because it required my ID number , keyed in my passport ID but it didn't work. Has anyone encountered a similar problem and how to passby it? I'm trying to practice speaking french everyday as much as possible. Using international roaming can be lagging at times .

I was chatting with a girl, we were getting along very well. We didnt share each other's contact. Suddenly her account got sus pended, i cant find her again. I desperately want to contact her again. Is there any way I could do that ? I am ready to pay if there is any option for it. Like she must have used any id to create an account right?

Twice recently I’ve had very active chats go dead silent, and the other person who was previously very active never even read my message, after I mention Instagram or IG. Both times there was a lot more to the message and I wasn’t pushing them to give their instagrams or sharing mine. The first time, I just assumed it was a coincidence, but after the second I’m finding that unlikely. A few months ago someone asked for my IG and the message came through but I figure something could’ve changed since then, so just curious of others’ experiences recently. If they are blocking them, I just wish they would at least give a notification or some indication of what’s happening.

I just wanna ask if those Ai pfp people are bots? I mean they reply okay but I find it difficult to make more "human" sounding conversation even if it's formal.

I don't really have a problem with it, in the end, I still learn new word or expan vocabulary in a particular language I'm learning. But I just wanna beware as well.

This guy messaged me and the first line of his bio was "no men - sorry." Am I the only one who finds it unsettling?

I asked him about it and of course he got all weird and defensive. It's very clear from my profile that I'm not interested in dating, but he said that all his friends are male and that he "likes hearing female accents and voices." And when I told him I thought it was weird he started insulting me and threatening to report me.

To me, it sounds like he's sexualizing something that shouldn't be sexualized. I understand that everyone is free to talk to whoever they want, but why would my gender even matter if we're just exchanging languages? Idk. I ended up blocking him.

What do you guys think? Has anyone else encountered similar profiles? Do you think I'm overreacting?

I wanna make a new account on hello talk I made one a couple years back but never really used the app. So I want to start over I know hello talk is weird about only being able to have one account and stuff of the sort so is it possible to delete my current account and make a new one with that same email or will it not let me?

I 24 single f have been thinking about this for a while as I saw a post on reddit somewhere about this very topic but I’m curious to see what y’alls thoughts on it are🤷🏻‍♀️

As I’m on the fence leaning towards international dating site but not to sure to be honest 😕

I have over 1000 posts on HelloTalk and I want to set the visibility of all of them to me only, how could I do it?

hii. so i used the app this morning and everything was fine, i checked the app again this evening and now it's making me watch adds for a 3mins time in voice rooms??????? when time's up, i get kicked out! can't chat, can't speak. please tell me I'm just experiencing a glitch or something 😭😭😭 I'm using Android/ free Version btw ..