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Name: Jonathan R.
I just read about your instant translation service in the New York Times today. I just tried it out, and it is fantastic! This story should have been on the front page. I have friends in various countries, and we email each other in stilted, broken English. Now I can write freely, and they understand. This is truly amazing.
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Name: Barbara C.
School: LaSalle, Illinois, USA
My Kindergarten class has had the honor to become e-mail partners with Durham School in Australia. The students that we shared with are physically challenged. They have made a tremendous impact on my class, as they have a deeper understanding and appreciation of how it feels to be handicapped.
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Name: Constance
School: National Kaohsiung first University of Science and Technology
We started the correspondence from this semester. So far, my students and I are having great time reading the emails from the students in another American school.
Just one thing I want to remind of those teachers who are interested in the project---start as early as possible and get the full list of all your students' emails as fast as you can. It will save you a lot of time and students will have more time talking to each other.
In addition, don't worry about your students' English ability, they will find out their own ways to communicate with their e-pals. Also, for those students who don't live in English-spoken countries, the e-pal programs let them learn the culture and the daily spoken English that they might not learn in the classroom.
The most important part is students will have the motivation to learn English in class because they want to know the correct way to write to their e-pals in English!
It really helps!
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Constance
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Name: Maria A.
School: CIDI, Madrid, Spain
It's a wonderful experience. My students are epals of a USA primary classroom, they write letters, send photos and draws. Their teacher has came to Spain, and we've met, epals really works!!! Thanks a lot
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Name: Ciaran B.
School: St. Patrick's BNS Wicklow Town, Irelan
During a four week period a group of my pupils communicated via e-mail with a group of pupils in Dysart Iowa. It was a most exciting project and it opened up an area of the USA to us. We would like to think that Ireland was opened up to our friends in Dysart too. Both teachers are still in communication with each other and some of the pupils continued on after the project ended. well done epals.com :-)
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Name: Donna D.
School: Thurgoona Public School, Thurgoona, New South Wales, Australia
Just a quick note to say thank you to those people that contacted me so promptly. My class now has 2 schools to write to as a result! epals is a great service and quite a few of my colleagues are looking forward to starting up the same sort of thing. Thanks again!
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Name: Mrs. Marylee D. San B.
School: Saint Scholastica's College-High School, Manila, Philippines
We are very pleased and relieved to have found this site on the Web, where we can have safe, pleasant and relevant chat with other classrooms interested in same things we are in. Thank you for being here.
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Name: Bharti S.
School: Amulakh Amichand Bhimji Vividhlakshi Vidyalaya, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Our students have benefited tremendously with the cultural exchange that we've had and I wish to thank you for making it possible!
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Name: Greet M.
School: Studio Macadam, Diemen, Netherlands
Children and teens who can tell us interesting things about the world around them can open a window to another world for hospitalised and homebound children.
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Name: Marcia V.
School: American School of Bilbao, Berango, Vizcaya, Spain
A great way for young people all over the world to increase their understanding of one another and decrease ethnocentrism and racism.
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