HiNative: A Global Q&A Platform to Learn Language and Culture

Advances in technology have had arevolutionary effect on education, making online education more accessible toeveryone. These advances have also provided opportunities for development ofapplications or websites that could prove helpful to the process of languagelearning and teaching, by offering tools that could be used both inside andoutside of language classroom. Among a myriad of language applications,HiNative is an app that has recently been developed. The application provideslanguage learners with opportunity to improve their vocabulary, sentencemaking, and even pronunciation. one-on-one direct feedback from speakers ofdifferent languages has made HiNative a popular option for those who try totake control of their own language learning. This app could also be used tofamiliarize learners of a language with its culture too. This review provides adescription of the attributes of this application and tries to point out theadvantages and disadvantages of using this application as a supplementary languagelearning tool.