500 Messages in 12 Days
Bismillah.
A long things I want to write in my HelloTalk's moment, but got cut a lot because of the 2000character limit.
Let me just post here.
As usual, disclaimer, there will be a lot of broken grammar and poor vocabulary. I welcome any correction in comment.
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*500 Messages in 12 Days*
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| Her nickname is written in Chinese, but She's Algerian. |
As a person who rarely chat often. This is surely an achievement.
Months ago, instead of just using English/Korean in my head, I install some international social media that can help me practice more those 2 languages. I install Slowly, Bottled and Hello Talk.
🐌 Slowly
Slowly is nice in the beginning. I really enjoy improving my language there through reading and writing letter.
The problem next is.. my overthinking habit often makes me think more before writing a letter. And it exhausted me. To write and revise not only once sometimes twice in my head, before writing it later. It disappoint me also, as people mostly only reply letter without even giving any question as the feedback. It makes me feel as if I'm interviewing someone. Lol. As a curious person, I do like to ask a lot. But there's a limit to it.
At first I like slowly because of the pacing, but later, I found out it didn't match my overthinking personality. So now, I still use slowly, not actively exchanging letter, but just reading open letter, to get to know many people without even interacting with them. It's a good place to learn language too, if somehow an Arabic/Japanese/Korean letter come up in my Open Letter board.
🧴 Bottled
It kinda mix random letter sending + uploading 24h limited story (it's called diary there).
There's a whole lot new things I learn when I first joining that app. A lot of disappointment in the first place, cause most people using that app for dating app >< while I'm not there for that at all.
But I like how the app is noise free. And thankfully in a very few people I met (whether through throwing/keeping bottle/joining public island), I found friends who like to read and discuss book. So now I mostly go to there to read our private book island, or chat with a few people I am comfortable to randomly ask for a topic I want to discuss.
👋💬 Hello Talk
Finally talking about what the title is about lol. What a long prolog.
Anyway, I join firstly because I want to improve my Korean language skill. Cause in Bottled there's almost no one speaking Korean. Or may be yes, but I just didn't meet any of them.
But as I use this app, I mostly speak and learn English. I still listening and read to korean book. But a almost never practice speaking Korean here.
Anyway, my chat in HT is almost unused. I found that joining or hosting VR as a place to learn more. Connecting with people in chat is not easy. I don't know which user is active and willingly to learn together. Not, until I found this Algerian Girl on an English group that I already removed from.
Thanks to her willingness to stay connected and practice English by either chating or sending voice note. This 500 messages is the proof. I remember I disappoint her once, and it almost makes her don't want to chat with me again. It's a lesson for me not to promise joining someone VR if I'm not sure whether the timing is match or not. The guilt is something I personally should work on.
Anyway that's the story. Thanks HT for this reminder. It's a good app that knows how to make each user experience to stay connected and active in this app. The birthday reminder, the thank you button if someone else sending gift/likes to us, and this... a 500 messages milestone.
What about you? Tell me about 500 messages milestone, with whom you got it, and if you haven't got it yet, what kind of person/topic that maybe can makes you continuously send messages to/about?









