When I’m looking at “Moments” posted by people on HelloTalk I

usually look people I follow or the other randomly selected ones, but earlier I was looking at the “Classmates” section (i.e. other people who are studying the same languages as you), and can’t help but notice a number of of people who had accounts as native speakers of English (US/UK/Aus, etc.) but clearly weren’t given the mistakes they make in grammar and vocabulary...

Can’t help but wonder at the point of this. Are these people just looking to stalk girls?

By the way, the English term for making an online account with a fake persona is “Catfishing”.

Be careful out there people!

Comments

Suzu

@どJ Thank you.☺︎

2019.04.02 19:28
Anchi0220

@どJ ohh! I see~ 😂 That’s good to know!

2019.04.02 15:36
Monica

@どJ yep😊

2019.04.02 15:26
ChengLin

谢谢你

2019.04.02 14:55
どJ

@Anchi0220 actually interestingly it’s mostly used as a verb; “he catfished me” “I got catfished”. You *can* use it as a noun but it’s less common.

2019.04.02 14:53
どJ

@Monica even though there’s some who aren’t real, there’s still lots of native speakers!

2019.04.02 14:52
どJ

@桃花仙 unfortunately it can be common enough to be useful to know haha

2019.04.02 14:51
どJ

@Lily always trying to help haha

2019.04.02 14:50
どJ

@Suzu hope you haven’t had any issues with them!

2019.04.02 14:50
どJ

@Freddie 👍🏻

2019.04.02 14:49
どJ

@Martyna P there are definitely a lot of non-native English speakers pretending to be native however. I’ve seen some others post similar things.

2019.04.02 14:49
どJ

@油条和豆浆 yeah I’m surprised by how many...

2019.04.02 14:48
Anchi0220

Catfish, cool word!!!🤩 Right! Girls, be careful with the catfishes!

2019.04.02 14:44
Monica

Thank you. I ve noticed that. Luckily I only followed few native speakers. I like browsing what they post which is useful for me to learn English.

2019.04.02 11:29
Lily

Good tips,thanks

2019.04.02 10:21
Suzu

Same here!!

2019.04.02 10:09
桃花仙

catfishing 😁😁😁😁I got a new word

2019.04.02 10:02
Freddie

Absolutely.

2019.04.02 09:57
Martyna P

I think there are better apps to stalk girls. Though it is interesting why 'natives' make so many mistakes. :-)

2019.04.02 09:55
油条和豆浆

You are right ! I found out some guys are fake.

2019.04.02 09:49