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- Post Offices Worldwide
Going Postal?
Sending a traditional penpal letter by international mail is a wonderful experience as much for you as your recipient. For reference, here’s a small list of worldwide postal offices on Wikipedia.An Post (Ireland)
Australia Post (Australia)
Bulgarian Posts (Bulgaria)
Canada Post (Canada)
China Post, 中国邮政 (People’s Republic of China)
Chunghwa Post, 中華郵政 (Republic of China)
Correos (Spain)
Correos de Costa Rica [...]
- Review: Penpal-Gate
Penpal-Gate is a penpal finding site with a focus on international language exchanges.
Penpal-Gate includes a forum where you can practice a language with native speakers and an excellent translation tool which should assist you when corresponding with these international penpals. This penpal finding site has 2 modes, a free basic mode which limits you to 4 [...]
- Review: Penpal Post
Penpal Post (more than just hello)
A relatively new penpal finding service with almost 2,000 registered members. The service is completely free to join (advertising supported) and appears to be fairly well moderated.
Penpal Post has a section called ‘Articles’ where penpal seekers can find educational information on 419 email scams, Nigerian advance fee fraud, or other [...]
- Chicago Tribune: A White House pen pal
A personalized letter from Obama!
There’s a wonderful article on the Chicago Tribune today about a High School class who sent letters to president Obama. There was no expectation of a response but as the Tribune wrote: a personalized letter from Obama, along with a photo, arrived over the summer. It wasn’t until Tuesday that students in Kisiel’s [...]
- Review: Penpal Party
Penpal Party has penpals from 173 countries although, despite the name, it doesn’t feel much like a party.
- Penpals Meet after 60 Years
Letter writing helped form a long lasting friendship – which for 62 years has defied a distance of 12,000 miles.
- Letter Writing Tips
You don’t have to be an English major to write successful letters to your pen pal. Write from your heart and use your creativity.
- Teachers: Classroom Penpal Exchange Sites
Although we have not yet reviewed many of these sites, the following is a definitive list of links which will help teachers find student pen pal exhanges for their classrooms.
SAPE: Their primary goal is to find postal mail (”snail-mail”) penfriends for more than 100,000 people in the Baltics and former Soviet Union.
ePals (review): Safely connect, collaborate and learn [...]
- Teachers: Classroom Penpal-Project Tips
The advantages of introducing a classroom penpal project for your students should be considered heavily.
- Review: Penpal Amis (Updated!)
Penpal Amis is relatively new and has few members but is interesting because of the emphasis on French / English cultural and language exchange.
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