A Spanish Penpal will be a terrific help as you learn Spanish

Spanish Penpals (keypals, the Geeks like to call them) will help you learn Spanish on the web for free. This is one of the smartest things you can do to start using your Spanish and making real progress.

Spanish penpals, keypals, are simply a technologically empowered update of a penpal. Speed and ease of communication give a new power to an old formula.

Interaction with your penpals can evolve into Virtual Chat, ICQ and participation in Spanish Discussion Groups etc. - all invaluable ways to improve your Spanish fluency and learn Spanish on the web for free.

Unless your Spanish is quite fluent, it is unreasonable to expect to find a stranger who will give the time and indeed have the patience to put up with your first tentative efforts at communication in Spanish. To-day, people are busy and impatient. But, don't let this put you off. We all have to start somewhere.

A Language swop is the best way to find your penpals

What about a swop? You could help your Spanish penpals with, for example, his/her English and in return, he/she could help you with your Spanish.

Do not underestimate this formula.


Neither do you need to find an exact match of language levels for you to learn Spanish with your Spanish penpals. If your correspondent has almost fluent English while your Spanish is 'nervous' this should not be a problem. You can always offer help and encouragement in English. Each of you has equal competency in your OWN language, so this is a fair exchange.

What would be ideal in this situation is that you find Spanish penpals who are 'sympatico' ; somebody with whom you can relate, communicate.

Don't be 'hide-bound' in your approach. If you are not confident expressing yourself in Spanish, why not start with just a phrase of two in Spanish and then continue on in English. Ease yourself into this exciting situation.

Your aim should be to COMMUNICATE, to break down barriers; to build friendship. Once at ease with your Keypal, Spanish will largely take care of itself.

Advantages for you of a Spanish Keypal - you learn Spanish on the web for free!

  1. You can have feed-back on your efforts. You can even have your letter corrected. This is a powerful way to learn RELEVANT Spanish phrases and vocabulary; the kind of Spanish that YOU need to use.

  2. Above all, your Spanish penpals, whether communicating in Spanish or in English will open up the rich Hispanic world to you. You will be in a position to soak up unlimited linguistic and cultural information without even being aware of it. This is ideal.

  3. Find a fellow-traveler, someone you have something in common with and you are in clover. Once you get beyond chit-chat about yourself, your family, where you live etc (the kind of stuff you find in the first few chapters of most Spanish language courses) you can then move on to real communication and exchange with your new Spanish friend. Ideally, you will have interests in common: sport; literature; business etc. You will be able to swop info.

  4. The Spanish learning scope is almost unlimited. Real people using real language in a real context. The ideal! You will be communicating regularly in Spanish while all the time you will be able to stay within your 'comfort zone' always so important when learning a new language.

    5. Be clear about the great opportunity presented by having a Spanish penpals: You have one of the best possible opportunities to to learn strategies for opening and maintaining communication in a supportive, helpful environment.

    Find your Keypal here and start learning Spanish on the web for free.

    We recommend the Language Exchange, an impressive, well-run site for Spanish learners. Here, your privacy is respected and your email address will not be abused. They also offer loads of worhtwhile advice and more tools to learn languages. So, good luck with your Spanish penpals and I hope you learn loads of Spanish on the web for free!

    Find your Spanish penpals here - and many more Spanish resources FREE! If you have mastered basic Spanish, you may well be ready to move on the what may be the greatest opportunity for learning Spanish online: participating in Spanish Discussion Groups. This is one of the great opportunities made possible by the web



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