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[jiaojiao87]

Hellotalk is a mainland-based company.  I don't find this filtering surprising, and am surprised that you do ?

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9 hours ago, jiaojiao87 said:

Hellotalk is a mainland-based company.  I don't find this filtering surprising, and am surprised that you do ?

 

Actually, this is my second time on HT and the block wasn't there the first time. 

 

What's particular annoying is I have paid money and severely restricted in the very thing that hellotalk was designed for. ....

 

I am not interested in Taiwanese Mandarin. There's a Chinese woman based in South America who responds to my ad hoc request but she's a bit wierd talking to me in Cantonese and asking all sorts of funny personal questions. Her Mandarin Chinese accent is also pretty regional south China and it's the thing that I am trying to avoid!

[大块头]

@Flickserve Maybe try HiNative instead? They're a Japanese company (original developers of Lang-8) so you won't have to deal with any mysterious filtering issues.

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17 hours ago, 大块头 said:

try HiNative instead?

 

Thanks 

 

 Had a look. It’s not quite the right fit.

 

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On 2/3/2021 at 2:13 AM, jiaojiao87 said:

I don't find this filtering surprising, and am surprised that you do

 

 

The filter is there for people based in HK (I am in HK) and Taiwan. You don’t have this problem. ?

 

They said they can’t remove the block that mainlanders have on my moments but at least I can see all of the mainland Chinese posts.

 

Wish I had known this before paying. The best feature is the instant access to a language exchange or in your case 100% Chinese.

 

The first time round was good except my mandarin level was too low. I deleted the app to stop it distracting me and worked at shadowing lots of sentences.

 

They said they will to try and come up with a solution.

 

I tried VPN but couldn’t change my location.

[roddy]

That's the first time I've heard (which is not to say it hasn't been going on for many years) of that kind of finer-grained Greater China-specific blocking.

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On 2/4/2021 at 3:18 PM, roddy said:

That's the first time I've heard (which is not to say it hasn't been going on for many years) of that kind of finer-grained Greater China-specific blocking.

it came about after the 2019 riots in Hong Kong. I saw a lot of political posts and I suspect HT hadn’t at the time developed a means of moderating the posts. 
 

Anyhow I managed to work out a solution to my special status. I used an app to change my phone’s location to another country. I put up a test request for exchange and got a lot of almost instantaneous responses. Phenomenal. Previously I might not even get any replies in half an hour.

 

Had a great exchange with a guy in Shanghai. As we say in Cantonese, 搞定！

[骏马的丕沿?]

我自己来插句话……
 

我也很感兴趣，因为身边的人都不怎么对中国文化感兴趣，于是我一直没有伙伴和我一起练习中文。

 

从某科学的角度看，可以说我是母语者，普通话相当好；我相信咱俩可以共勉学习，相辅相成。

 

要我说，遵循只说普通话的原则的所谓的中文桌，才是最好的中文桌形式。

 

嗯，就这样吧……我期待着你的回复。共勉共勉—加油！