Russian Pen Pals

[Alex]

Dear Klawa,

Sorry, I am not a colleague. Just a curious person who likes SEELANGS very
much.
When I subscribed to this mailing list almost 7 years ago one of my first
question was:
"is there any international mailing list for communicating in Russian?".
Seelangers are
always very helpful and they suggested me some options. But I wasn't
satisfied by
existing lists and decided to establish a new one by myself. For a couple of
years
I've managed to gather some nice Russian speaking e-pals from Latin America
to
Japan. Sadly enough I had some personal problems and couldn't pay attention
to
that forum for some time. They could use the list without my assistance of
course,
but it seemed my guidance was crucial and without me the list faded away.
Since then I never met a decent mailing list for that purpose. I asked my
kids if
they or their friends (their schoolmates) would like to correspond with
children
of the same age (and maybe interests) abroad. They expressed a deep
scepticism about that idea. The world has changed!  Half  a century ago
children were eager to have pen pals abroad but mostly had a little
option...
These days when a computer is in every house (and even in countryside!) and
there are internet cafe on every corner, kids prefer to play online games
rather
than writing letters to each other!

By the way, did you mean mainly e-pals or "snail mailing" too? And of what
age?

Aleksander, Ukraine

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