Top Websites for Christmas E-Cards in Foreign Languages

If you have a friend or loved one in a non-English-speaking country, why not send them an e-card from one of the many foreign language e-card websites? Or perhaps you would like to send a greeting to an old friend from a foreign language class in high school or college. Test how well your memory and your old classmate's memory have held up since you left school with a card in French, Spanish or German. There are even websites with cards in Japanese and Latin. If your memory is lacking somewhat, though, these all have English translations.

German Christmas E-Cards
Visit Deutsche Gruß- und Postkartenfor holiday e-cards in German. They have e-cards depicting either the interior or the exterior of the Stille-Nacht-Kapelle (Silent Night Chapel) in . Cards are available with a caption or without. Each e-card can be customized with a song and a personal message as well. The page also offers suggestions for German greetings appropriate for Christmas. (Deutsche Gruß- und Postkarten)

Spanish Christmas E-Cards
The website 123 Greetings has a great selection of Christmas E-Cards in Spanish. They have 12 Spanish Christmas E-Cards, some funny, including a dancing reindeer and sombrero-wearing, guitar-strumming Santa Claus singing "Feliz Navidad," and some more subdued, like the one depicting three little angels gathered around Baby Jesus in a manger. (www.cards.123greetings.com)
Feliz-Navidad.net is another good source for Spanish Christmas E-Cards. This website is entirely in Spanish, but if you are not Spanish-speaking, just look for the Christmas icon. Choose from a number of festive greetings. (www.feliz-navidad.net)

French Christmas E-Cards
At Heavenly Greetings, you may a create Christmas E-Card in French. You have a choice of background and font colors, as well as font size and type. Customize the card with your own title and a personal message. (www.heavenlygreetings.com)

Norwegian Christmas E-Cards
On the website, A Touch of Troms, you will find a nice selection of Norwegian Christmas e-cards. There are a variety of funny and sweet Norwegian e-cards with traditional Norwegian illustrations and Norwegian greetings. (A Touch of Troms)

Russian Christmas E-Cards
Irina Guthrie designs and sells beautiful gold-embossed and gold-stamped Russian greeting cards on her Russian Cards website. You may send any of her lovely designs as free e-cards as well. Each is customizable with a personal greeting and message, both of which can be translated into Russian. (http://russiancards.iile.ru/)
Another source for Russian Christmas e-cards is the website Soviet Posters. Featuring artwork reproduced from Soviet originals, the e-cards on this website make interesting, attractively historical greetings. (Soviet Posters)

Other Foreign Language Christmas E-Cards
At neuvicenperigord.com, you can create a Christmas e-card in one of 50 languages, from Arabic to Swedish and Inuit to Vietnamese. Simply choose from one of three templates, and then personalize that card with a "Merry Christmas" message translated into any of the available languages. You may also add a title to the e-card, as well as a personal message, and a melody. (www.neuvicenperigord.com) Search for the term e-cartes on this website, as it is all in French until you get to the e-cards section.

Surprise your non-English-speaking friends with a holiday greeting in their native language this year. The above websites contain holiday e-cards in many foreign languages, allowing you to send your Christmas greetings around the world.