Language/English/Tips/Best-Sites-or-Apps-to-Find-Native-English-Penpals
Find a native English friends (or penpal) is one of the most effective ways to practice a language for free and improve your English skills and other languages too. It is not easy to speak with natives when you cannot travel easily. Fortunately, several websites and apps are there to help you.
In this article you will find our selection of the best language exchange websites and apps to help you practice English and all languages.
PolyglotClub.com
Polyglot Club is both an online and offline language exchange community. Polyglot Club allows you to Find English Penpals via a search engine. You can specify the language level, native or not, gender, location. If you are learning or teaching several languages, you can add them in the search and therefore find more matches. If you live in the same city, the site encourages you to meet in real life to make your learning more interesting. Real life events are also organized throughout the world. Look at the list of upcoming events here: Upcoming events. If you feel like organizing a gathering and there are no events near you, you can create one.
Livemocha.com
Livemocha is one of the most famous online conversation exchange communities worldwide. Enjoy, you can easily find people who can teach you English .. It is wide enough to give you a wide range of interlocutors with whom you can chat online via their messaging and integrated chat. Livemocha provides a Google translator and also conversational scenarios that can refer participants. You can even use it to submit a working paper that you would like to check the language.
Site italki
Italki is also an online community. Each user must clearly specify the level of knowledge, allowing you to choose people who have a similar level. If you have an intermediate level of English, you must select partners with equivalent in your native language to make the conversation more fun and fluid. If you do not have time to do a language tandem, you also have the option to pay your course.
SharedTalk is more a chatting platform. It is a native community of all countries with which you can exchange for voice chat or instant messaging. The search engine is basic (only spoken language and the desired language), you will then sweep the descriptions of a few hundred members if you want to choose the most appropriate. Best to see who is logged in when you arrive and make your choice among them.
Site MyLanguageExchange
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com
MyLanguageExchange is an old platform displaying thousands of members worldwide. You can make a finer selection after a first broad research on the home page. The site is not very nice but it is quite effective, it also offers conversation plans to help you to create scenarios that will make you talk on a daily topic. If you want more contact members via email or chat, you will pay a small fee.
Application HelloTalk
HelloTalk is an app (Android or Iphone) allowing you to find partners to practice directly on their smartphone or tablet. It is possible to discuss in writing or send small audio messages (like WhatsApp). It is also possible to communicate via voice or video call as soon as your level will allow it. Finally, the application offers a wide variety of tools to help with communicaton (written translation, oral ...). You can pay a small fee to have more options.
Speaky
The "live" feature allow you to find a language exchange match very quickly. One immediately sees people online and available to chat and talk right now. With the menu "find friends" you have the opportunity to study well the person's profile before get in touch with him/her. The search engine allows you to filter to identify native speakers or see the most active ones.
So, no time to waste, start learning you English. You have no excuses now.