Epals: World's Largest K-12 Social Learning Network!

For every foreign language teacher, there is a problem that has always been torturing and haunting them: how to make what students directly use what they have learned in classroom in the real life? There are some answers to it. Some teachers choose to make up conversations between students. In the process of listening, understanding, and responding to each other's words, students are able to learn foreign languages. Some teachers turn to the help of summer camps: by taking students where the language was originally from, students are presented with precious chances of talking to people speaking that language as mother tongue. However, it is not hard to find problems with these solutions. The make-believe conversation between students is not authentic enough, while dragging all students abroad presses high requirements on time and money. Is there a way to solve this problem? 


The answer is Yes. The appearance of Epal made all these possible. Epal is by far the largest K-12 social learning network in the world. After a short registration, you will have the access to many precious opportunities to social and communicate with all kinds of K-12 students and their teachers all over the world. My niece, for example, is a primary student in Beijing China. One day, she told me that one of her English teachers had assigned a project to them. The students have to register on the website of 'Epal' and get connected to their teachers' account. Their teacher has already found a Mandarin teacher from Boston looking for opportunities for her students to practice Mandarin with native speakers. My niece told me that the two classes had a social one day, and they were able to talk to each other with whatever language they like as if the two groups are right next to each other. 


There is no doubt that learning from the native speakers is the best way to improve, although this is an opportunity that people normally are lack to access to. The existence of Epal bring hope and solution to this problem. Therefore, as a future foreign language teacher, I would like to share with everyone that is interested in this subject and hopefully Epal will be of help to you as well.