Esperanto
If you learn Esperanto, you can correspond with everybody from an advokato to a knabino:
http://www.china.org.cn/world/shi-window/index3.htm
Similarly:
http://www.china.org.cn/world/shi-window/korespondi_d/01.htm
Why are there so many people dez. kor. Esp. in Krasnoyarsk? What's it like in Krasnoyarsk these days, and what kind of Esperantist community is there?
I think there's something to be said for the pen-pal phenomenon, although when I tried it in elementary school we seldom got beyond one round-trip's worth of letters. Maybe that was my fault.
