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What are your thoughts on penpals?
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Starfallen
Groupie
United States
Joined 5823 days ago
43 posts - 49 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: Japanese

Message 9 of 13

14 January 2009 at 1:19pm | IP Logged

I think it's a great way to learn! Being able to have meaningful conversations with real people helps the vocabulary to stick. It also forces you to constantly figure out new phases, and of course you get to learn fun things like slang...stuff you wouldn't normally see in a textbook.
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joaopferrao
Pentaglot
Newbie
Portugal
Joined 5810 days ago
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Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French
Studies: Icelandic

Message 10 of 13

14 January 2009 at 3:31pm | IP Logged

My penpal is a prisioner in a portuguese jail. He speaks English (he's from South Africa) and that's the language we use to write the letters.

Sometimes I wish he knew Afrikaans to teach me some, but he doesn't...
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Ajijic10
Diglot
Senior Member
Mexico
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Speaks: English*, Spanish

Message 11 of 13

14 January 2009 at 7:34pm | IP Logged

wharrgarbl wrote:

I go to a penpal website (I don't know if I'm allowed to link to it, since that might be considered advertising or something), and I often talk to native Spanish speakers there, and it really helps me with my Spanish. And it's always fun helping people with English too. So yeah, penpals are good.

I think you can link it. I for one would be interested in visiting the site.

Thanks
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SamD
Triglot
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United States
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Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian

Message 12 of 13

15 January 2009 at 10:08am | IP Logged

I have had some great experiences with penpals. If you have the chance to get a penpal who speaks your target language, by all means do so.
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wharrgarbl
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United States
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish

Message 13 of 13

16 January 2009 at 12:09am | IP Logged

Ajijic10 wrote:

wharrgarbl wrote:

I think you can link it. I for one would be interested in visiting the site.

Thanks

It's http://www.interpals.net/

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