Interpals: Penpals & Languages

Meet people from all over the world on Interpals — the original pen pal and language exchange community, online since 1998 and home to 8.5 million members.

Find someone in another country to write to. Practice a language with a native speaker. Make friends whose everyday life looks nothing like yours.

MAKE FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD
• Search by country, city, age, and the languages someone speaks or is learning
• Browse real profiles and photo albums — no deck of cards to swipe through
• See who viewed your profile and who is online right now
• Message requests keep your inbox yours: you decide who gets through
• Join groups around shared interests and post to the community feed

LANGUAGE EXCHANGE WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS
• Find a tandem partner: you help with your language, they help with theirs
• Practice real conversation — the everyday phrasing textbooks leave out
• Built-in message translation for when you get stuck mid-sentence
• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Indonesian, Hindi, Dutch, Polish and hundreds more

SEND MORE THAN TEXT
• Share photos and GIFs in chat
• Build photo albums on your profile
• Comment on photos and posts

A COMMUNITY, NOT A DATING APP
Interpals has been bringing people together since 1998. There is no swiping and no matching game. Members come here for genuine friendship, curiosity about other countries, and long correspondences — plenty have been writing to the same pen pal for years.

YOUR SPACE, YOUR RULES
• Block or report any member at any time
• A moderation team reviews reported profiles, photos, and messages
• You control what appears on your profile and who can contact you
• Minimum age 13

FREE
Creating an account, searching for members, and sending messages costs nothing.

Whether you are getting ready to travel, studying a language, planning to study abroad, or you simply want to talk with someone on the other side of the world — start on Interpals.

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