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  • 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 [...]

  • Review: Penpal Amis

    Penpal Amis is relatively new and has few members but is interesting because of their emphasis on French / English cultural exchange.

  • Poll: Why penpal?

    There are all sorts of reasons why people decide to start corresponding with a penpal.
    Often it is to understand or gain insight into a new culture, or other times it is to learn a new language or build a long lasting friendship.
    Please share with us, which is your most compelling reason for wanting a penpal.

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  • Review: Penpal-net

    Penpals-net boasts over 35,000 penpals including almost 20,000 that have uploaded their photos.
    The front page of the site includes a sort of link exchange which includes some questionable links (be careful not to click any and monitor your children). The penpal listings for the most part are pretty normal and are divided into male and [...]

  • Review: ePals

    ePals is dedicated to connecting the global community of classrooms.
    ePals boasts that members can safely connect, collaborate and learn using their leading protected email and blog solutions for schools and districts. While the emphasis is on connecting classrooms, the site is also available for individual penpal exchanges.

    Penpals: Unknown (hard to know since they are dedicated [...]

  • Review: InterPals

    InterPals is very activity and boasts over 3,000 online members from over 120 countries at any moment.
    InterPals also offers a language exchange with over 130,000 members offering to learn/share their knowledge of English, French, Spanish, German, Korean, Japanese, etc. Further, InterPals paints themselves are the largest ‘free’ pen pal exchange site on the internet.

    Penpals: 300,000 [...]

easy Penpals

Welcome. The purpose of easy Penpals is to provide a current and relevant look at the sites which provide penpal exchanges for letter writing, emailing, keypal and/or language and cultural exchanges. Through our analysis, commentary and your feedback we hope to enable a safe community to those interested in exchanging experiences with penpals around the world and for all ages.

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