用英文写email给外国
笔友
其实写英文信只要诚恳、用心，对方一定可以感受到，而报以热诚的响应。
本站提供了一些 key pal/笔友的网站，可以结交来自世界各国的人。这些网站有的要你先登录名字及email address即可，有的要加上一封信，或长、或短，随意啦!
key pal/笔友的网站，可以结交来自世界各国的人。这些网站有的要你先登录名字及email address即可，有的要加上一封信，或长、或短，随意啦! 要如何选择key pal呢?
可能很多同学会说：当然要找英国或美国的native speaker啰！嗳！话是没错，可是你想想看，爱和外国人写信的native speakers会很多吗？事实上是不多。 那么有什么人喜欢交key pal？ Well, 很多，且来自世界各国；多为non-native speakers，如韩国人、日本人、土耳其人，等。
但是网络的无远弗届，也会带来危险的。我们提供下列的警讯给你参考:
1. 当对方问一些关于你的身体方面，或性经验方面的问题，表示这个人通信的目的不单纯。无论他或她是那一国人，这样的问题都是不合宜的。
2. 当对方与你通信后，企图劝说要求你与他/她用视讯工具见面；此时需预防有不雅画面出现，最好有家人一起在屏幕上出现。
3. 不可随意藉旅游之便，安排见面，极其危险，最好有朋友一起去见面。也有的人会在朋友不再跟随后，与对方单独见面，而险遭不测。
4. 若有笔友强调他是某校高材生，领奖无数，或是有极高的社会地位，或是有显赫的身世；很可能，实情不是他所描述的那样。
5. 网络世界是最迷人的隐密世界；也是最危险的隐密世界。千万要步步小心，三思五想而后行。即使是同性的笔友，也不可冒然见面，或许有其他的危险。
这样英文会进步吗？
当然会；因为写作是一种运用生产性技巧(production Skill)的沟通方式，必需将心中想的写成文字，若只看别人的文章，是无法使自己的文笔更流畅、精练的；故对方是否为native speaker，并非很绝对必要。况且，世界上有很多non-native speakers使用英文，只要你与对方谈得来，友谊是无国界的。
下面是一些用email沟通的 A. B. C. (基本原则)，供同学们作参考：
A. 开头怎么称呼呢？
a. 若不知道对方是谁，则写Dear Sirs, 较为正式，也可写Hi, 或Dear all, 较为亲切。
b. 若与某一个人第一次通信，则直接称Dear XX, 是一种不论亲疏，通用的形式。
B. 开头怎么写？
a. I learned your name from the web site XXX and would like to make friends with you if you feel the same.
b. Glad to have received your email. I enjoyed reading your letter very much. This is my first time writing to a friend outside the country and I hope that you and I can get to know more about each other through email.
c. This is really an exciting experience writing to you. I would love to tell you more about myself.
C. 写些什么内容好呢？
a. 自我介绍:
I am a seventeen-year-old girl studying at Tai-Shan Senior High. I do a lot of studying every weekday for the big exam I have to pass for college. But I do love to write. I write diary every other day, and draw pictures next to my writing. There are usually more things to write in two days than in one day. On weekends, I make bracelets with beautiful beads and give them to my friends as a gift. They all love it and also try to make rings, bracelets, and chains, etc. Now it’s a fashion in my school!
b. 介绍家人:
My parents both work and I also got a brother studying at a junior high school near our home. A family of four is quite typical in Taiwan. My father is an electronic engineer working for an LCD monitor company, and my mom works in a business office as a secretary. My brother is a lot younger than me, but he and I can play together. We play basketball together on weekends. We also play video games and he always defeats me.
The whole family doesn’t seem to get together very often because we are all very busy during the weekdays. My mom cooks sometimes but more often she would pick up some takeouts on her way home from work. My dad often comes home later than 8:00 p.m. and has his late dinner. By then, he would be just too tired to talk much; only watching sports on T.V. We kids are also busy studying and do not need to talk to him or bother him with anything.
On weekends, the family does get together a lot and go outing very often. If not, my dad and I would have a heavy fight with the video games. I win most of the time, but sometimes he wins. That’s cool, right? Three of us often make bets on who wins the games. Sometimes the bets can go on for two weeks so that there would be enough games to get the points.
c. 介绍自己的好朋友：
My best friend in school is Lee-hwa. She has been my friend since our first year in senior high. We study together and go shopping at the little store near our school. We both love the little things there. You know, beads and cuties. Sometimes, we go to a teahouse on our way home and have a bubbled black tea after the tiring lessons in school. All the teas offered there are jumbo sizes in large beautiful brandy glasses. We can sip the tea and talk for almost an hour and then go home. You know what? We planned to go to the same college TOGETHER!
d. 描述自己居住的城镇：
The town I live in is a busy one named Hsin-Chuan where there are a lot of stores around my home. A 7-11 store is right at the first floor of out apartment building. If I feel hungry I can just go down stairs and get a pack of instant noodles from the store. The store has a 24-hour service. Other stores in this neighborhood open till ten or eleven at night.
The weather here is hot and humid, I sweat a lot in summer and it is not always cold in winter. We don’t have snow is the city but there is a little snow in the mountains. If there is snow, hundreds of people would all swarm in the mountains and take a lot of pictures there. I have not seen snow because I do not have the time to go. I am always studying.
I live in Tai-Nan at the southern part of Taiwan. The weather here is nice and warm all the time. Sunshine is everywhere even in winter. I ride bicycle to school and most of my classmates do. It takes about half an hour to get to my school. Even though this is a large city it is not as crowded as Taipei. How about your hometown?
e. 介绍自己的学校及同学：
I studied at Tai-Shan Senior High School. We study almost from the morning till the end of the day. Really! We have a lot of pressure from the big exam to enter college. The juniors in my school even go to school on Saturdays. Do you have the similar pressure?
Well, I do get to relax on weekends. My family sometimes go out to the country and enjoy a nice day together. My Dad thought I should just relax and forget about school, and my Mom said I looked pale and should come out to have some suntan. But I only worry about the many lessons I have not finished studying. How can I explain to them that I need more, more, and more time to study?
f. 描写自己喜欢的人、事、物：
There is a vender come near the school every day who sell extra large egg pan cakes at the price of a medium size. I often get one in the morning for breakfast and munch on before my classes begin. Wow! It has surely won my heart. A lot of the students in my school begin their school day with this egg pan cake and feel happy and content the whole day. We all praise on his pan cakes every day and the old vender seems very happy. He never misses the morning shift even on a rainy day.
There are a lot of ice and drink shops near my school. My classmate and I often go get some cold drinks or ice plates after school. Ice plate has all kinds of sweet beans on shaved ice. It is especially thirst-quenching in the hot summer here. Some girls love to get Pearl Milk Tea, which is milk tea with little brown chewy starchy balls in. Almost all the girls love to chew the balls. But I do not like this tea that much; what I like most is lemon tea.
A friend of mine gave me a beautiful bracelet of colorful beads as a birthday present. She made it herself. I love it very much and always wear it to school. It adds color to my boring uniform which I have to wear from Monday through Friday. On weekends I found it matches the color of all my outfits with its variety of colors. My friend is also very happy to see me always wearing it. I am sure we are going to be good friends always.
g. 描述最近学校发生的事：
We had an athletic meeting this past week for the celebration of our school anniversary. I was in the rally of 4000 meters and the team members often stay after school for training. We had more time together running and chatting during the breaks and got to know more about one another. We were the third runner up at end of the race but we all felt very content to have many more good buddies than before the training.
h. 描述最近的计划：
My mother told me that I should study English more so that I could go to a summer camp at my uncle’s hometown in Canada. I got so excited that I could go and spent the summer with my uncle’s family. We are very close when he came back to Taiwan and he often invited to visit him some time. Now it is true that I am going to Canada. I now write to him through email almost every day and he sent me the program of the camp and the things I should prepare before I go. Studying English a lot harder is of course the most important thing I should do now.
i. 描述最近台湾发生的事，且作一些短评：
SARS has greatly affected Taiwan recently. Hospitals and people
Are quarantined for infection of SARS virus and some people
Became severely traumatized physically and mentally. We also
have to check on our temperature even before we get in school.
Now things are quite under control but we are still taking
precautions to prevent infection of SARS.
I am taking good care of my personal hygiene and found my classmates are all very careful in this matter. There are things in the world that requires teamwork; no one can be just an onlooker. Every thing and every one affects one another. It takes the effort of many people to accomplish one big job. You cannot be too selfish and you cannot be too self-centered. You also have to watch out for everyone’s safety. Don't things in the community like crime, public sanitation, and earth care all apply to the same rule?
D. 结尾及祝福语怎么写？
a. Well, I have to stop here.
Wish you a wonderful weekend.
b. Write me when you have time.
Have a nice day.
c. Write soon and I’ll be looking forward to your letter.
May you be happy all the time.
d. Drop me a few lines when you find time.
Wish you all the happiness.
E. 签名之前的谦称怎么写？
a. Yours,
b. Sincerely yours,
c. Cordially yours,
d. Truly yours,
e. Very truly yours,
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