American Penpals (u.s., U.s.a.) - Pen Friends For Exchange Of Language And Culture

Name	Country (City)	Native Language	Practicing Language	Description
person Glenino favorite_border Add to Favorites July 15, 2025	United States (San Mateo)	English	Italian	My name is Glen, and I live in Northern California, just south of San Francisco. I’m passionate about travel, culture, cooking, food, wine, and learning Italian. I spent many years working in high tech before switching careers to teach high school science. About 20 years ago, my husband and I took a sabbatical and spent a year living in Florence—an experience that deepened my love for Italy. Since... See more translate
person Misa favorite_border Add to Favorites July 6, 2025	United States (San Mateo)	Japanese	English	I want to improve my English speaking skill! translate
person Gabriel favorite_border Add to Favorites August 17, 2024	United States (San Mateo)	English	Japanese Spanish	Hi, I'm a student at Stanford interested in learning Japanese/Spanish, and would really love someone to practice with. Let's connect! Gabe translate
person Mark favorite_border Add to Favorites April 18, 2024	United States (San Mateo, California)	English	Spanish	I am Mark, I live in San Mateo, California. I want to improve my Spanish speaking ability to I can volunteer in a program for refugees in Nogales Arizona/Mexico, so want to learn Latin-American Spanish. I studied a semester of Spanish at Salamanca Spain over 10 years ago and am currently reviewing my Spanish with the Great Courses program. I have taught and tutored English as a second languag... See more translate
person Thomas favorite_border Add to Favorites November 9, 2023	United States (San Mateo)	English	Italian	I grew up in an Italian culture in Brooklyn, NY. My grandparents were born in Campagnia, in Avellino. I remember hearing the older members of my family speak Italian to each other. It wasn't expected of the younger generation to learn the language. But now that I am older (I am a retired teacher) I have a sudden motivation and enthusiasm to learn Italian. Perhaps it's to honor my heritag... See more translate
person William favorite_border Add to Favorites September 29, 2023	United States (San Mateo)	English	Chinese, Mandarin	Chinese culture is very interesting. I visited China for the first time in the summer of 2019. Before my trip, I was learning Mandarin, but struggled to understand native speakers because I could not hear the tones. After visiting China, I could start to hear the tones, but my trip ended to soon. I embrace the challenge of hearing and understanding the language. I want to show my respect for ... See more translate
person Steve favorite_border Add to Favorites August 16, 2023	United States (San Mateo)	English	Italian	My name is Steve (Stefano) and I live in California, USA. I am a dual citizen American/Italian. I'm an entrepreneur at heart and love to travel. I would like to move over to Italy (Isola d'Elba) within the next few years. None of my family in Italy speaks English. It would be great to finally have a conversation with my family without having someone translate for me. I can understand it ... See more translate
person Amy favorite_border Add to Favorites January 2, 2023	United States (San Mateo)	English	Swiss German	Hello, I live in Califirnia with my Swiss husband (we’re both dual citizens). We’ll be staying in Thun for a couple months and I would love to improve my Berndeutsch (I’m definitely a beginner). I’m happy to help you improve your English as well. Merci vilmal! translate
person Allison favorite_border Add to Favorites April 4, 2022	United States (San Mateo)	English	Spanish	(I am happy to do Zoom chats too!) I teach law school and am a mother of two adult children. I live California. I have always wanted to learn Spanish and have just started taking Continuing Education classes to do so. I want to be able to converse with people who live in my community who are native Spanish speakers and for whom English is a second language. It doesn't feel fair to me that ... See more translate
person Miao favorite_border Add to Favorites October 5, 2021	United States (San Mateo)	Chinese, Mandarin	Japanese	Hi there, My name is Miao I live in San Mateo. CA. since the Covid 19 I have been studying Japanese on my own, and I think I am at N3 level now, so I would really like to continue studying and making some real Japanese friend near by. We can exchange learning English or Mandarin or even Golf, swim etc...I am a very open minded person, I love to learn and talking about almost anything interesting/... See more translate