Language Penpal Resources

Penpals, Chats, Voice Chats, Language Exchanges and Forums

These language penpal resources will help you start using your new language. All of these sites are great for finding people all over the world who can help you learn your new language. You can start by just lurking in the language forums or looking for penpals, or you can dive in with live text chats, voice chats or complete language exchanges. Use these language penpal resources as a primary tool in your language toolbox.


My Language Exchange This great site helps you to find penpals, text chat and voice chat partners for a language exchange. Lesson plans, online word games and forums all help you learn your new language with other learners and native speakers.

Phrasebase A language learning center loaded with resources, a forum, learning tools and an enormous community of active language learners. One of the best language penpal resources.

LanguageTrade Connect with other language learners with an internet voice connection for free. Go beyond penpals and actually speak with native speakers to really improve your newly acquired language skills! Also, visit the excellent Language Bin section for general info on learning languages.

FriendsAbroad A large and active community of language learners. Seek out penpals all over the world. Read my Review of FriendsAbroad.com

Polyglot Learn Language Another active community and forum of language learners from all over the world.

How to Learn Any Language A great resource for self-study language learners. Includes a forum with lots of great insights from serious language learners and lots of articles on language learning.

LanguageTraders.com Another great resource for finding language penpals and chat partners.

LanguagePenpals.com Find more penpals to practice and study your new language at this site.

LanguageBuddy.com Find penpals and forums on learning languages at this free site.

Lingup Find penpals, chat partners and meetups for your new language.

SharedTalk.com Online community of language learners. Live chats, penpals and an e-mail feature.

xLingo This language penpal site has an internal email system, chats and forums for registered users, which is free of course.

Zuiop.com A site for finding language exchange partners.

Lingozone This site helps to make language learning a little more fun. Engage penpals or language exchange partners in wordgames or test yourself with your own online vocabulary lists.

Penpalnet.com A very large community of penpals from around the world.

Language Tandem A site to find penpals for a language exchange.

The Mixxer The Mixxer is a free educational site hosted by Dickinson College for language learners and teachers to find a language partner for a language exchange via Skype.

The Penpals Network A site for finding language penpals. The Penpals Network - Make the World Smaller.

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