French Email Greeting Cards

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French email greeting cards are a great way to communicate with your friends from French class, your teacher (or your students) as well as a wonderful resource for keeping in contact with native French speakers you have met.

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Everybody loves getting mail, and getting email can be just as motivating and exciting. An ecard is a great way to let someone, whether far away or living next door, know that you're thinking about them. Whether it's someone's birthday or you just want to say 'hello' or 'I miss you', an ecard can be a great way to stay in touch.

Even if your special someone doesn't really speak French, it can be fun to send a French email greeting card that doesn't have very much text on it. The person will appreciate the novelty of getting a card in a foreign language, and hearts dancing across the screen, in addition to knowing who sent the card to them, will probably help the receiver figure out that the words je t'aime splashed across the screen have something to do with love!

Websites for French Email Greeting Cards

Both of the websites below offer a full selection of free ecards. Of course, there are other online sources for sending ecards; however, many of these sources are not free. Since these two are free, they are two of the most commonly used sites for sending greeting cards en français:

Dromadaire: With more than 5000 free greeting cards online in French; Dromadaire is the most popular site for French people to use to send ecards to their friends and family.
Hallmark: This link takes you to the French & Belgian Hallmark site, where you can send free ecards from Hallmark. This site is a great option if you are sending an ecard to someone in America because the name 'Hallmark' is known and trusted, making the receiver more likely to click on the link to the card in the email.

French Email Pals

If you have met native French speakers at a summer camp, at your school, or while traveling abroad, French email greeting cards are a great way to keep in touch with these friends and acquaintances. If you don't know any native French speakers and would like to meet some in order to be able to practice your French with native speakers, you can try visiting French chat rooms online in order to meet people. This can be a great way to practice your French once you have a considerable knowledge of French. Of course, the chat rooms can be overwhelming if you are only just beginning to learn French because all the abbreviations and slang used, on top of having a limited French vocabulary, will make being able to follow the conversations just about impossible.

For Teachers and Students

French teachers can use ecards to send their students a fun birthday message or a 'how are you?' card in the middle of a summer vacation. Most students really enjoy receiving something of this sort, and if you're lucky, you initiating the move will inspire your students to start sending each other French cards. Before you know it, your students are practicing their French outside the classroom, without you having to assign anything!

Students too, can send a teacher an ecard in French, which will not only be a nice surprise for the teacher, but also an appreciated gesture. Send classmates an ecard to celebrate French holidays. Ecards have been around for quite some time, but sending them in a different language brings all the original fun back into sending and receiving ecards!

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