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>Subject: Re: #6628 Looking for Spanish-Speaking Penpals
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I realise that I am responding rather late to your inquiry.  I 
apologize.  One starting place that we recommend to our students is the 
Tandem Agency which is a free service.  Students can apply individual 
for a partner or classes can apply as a group to be matched with another
class.  

What the Tandem Agency does is pair a native speaker of one language 
with a native speaker of another language.  So if your students are 
English speakers who want to learn Spanish, then they would be paired up
with Spanish speakers who want to learn English.  However, they have 
many other language combinations including many lesser taught languages.

It sometimes does take a while to receive a partner.  It is afterall a 
volunteer organization and there are no guarantees regarding how 
faithful a correspondent a partner may be, but it is a good place to 
begin.

I hope that this helps.  Good luck with your search.

Deanne Cobb


On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:15:06 EDT LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> >From: "John M. Esposito" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Looking for Spanish-Speaking Penpals
> >Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:43:50 -0400
> >Organization: The College of Staten Island, CUNY
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> A number of our instructors have expressed an interest in having their
> students correspond electronically with native speakers of Spanish.  Does
> anyone know of a resource for finding pen/keypals on the Net?  I thought
> that I would throw this question out to the group before I started looking
> seriously.  Thanks, John.
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Deanne Cobb
Language Lab Manager
Language Institute
University of Regina

" the only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, 
whether it is what a good man does or a bad man."  
--Plato 

"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."
 - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2