To be penpal friends

A pen-pal relationship is often used to practice reading and writing in a foreign language, to improve literacy, to learn more about other countries and life-styles, and to make friendships. As with any friendships in life, some people remain pen pals for only a short time, while others continue to exchange letters and presents for life.

Pen pals (or penpals or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail. A modern variation on the traditional penpal arrangement is to have a keypal and exchange email addresses as well as or instead of paper letters. This has the advantage of saving money and being more immediate, allowing many messages to be exchanged in a short period of time.

Many people, especially ESL people, start overseas correspondence in order to improve their English or any other foreign languages.
There’s no markers, and there’s no given subjects - you can write whatever you want to let your pen pal know about. Through pen-palling, you will get to enjoy writing in foreign languages (at least much more than paper exams!), therefore your language skills will improve. Even if you correspond with your pen pal in your first language, you will get to know how to organize your thoughts to clearly communicate your ideas to your pen pals on paper so you will be able to increase your written communication skills.

To start a Penpal relationship, just create a new thread in this category, talking about you and what you are looking for.
We wish you to find nice people to be keen with.
I know that some of the teachers in this forum well interested in this "Pen-friend" idea, and I'm sure they will enjoy to have a correspondence with you, either by email or regular mail.

In this topic tell us also what improvement we could to to make the Penpal category better.

Enjoy the the thread ,

The ESLC Team