Penpal

Hello! I've heard of penpals before and I always thought they seemed awesome! But quick question, do you have to know (or be learning) another language to have a penpal? Because I speak English and only English, but I've always wanted to learn Japanese. And I thought "what better way then learning by making a friend across the world?". I would extremely prefer someone who's close in age. So if anyone's got an answer or just wants to try it out and see how it goes, I'm all up for it. (This whole Japanese thing would be awesome but I'm willing to try with people that speak a different language.)
Female/16/US
Hobbies: watching anime (very wide variety of genres), reading manga (especially yaoi), music (both listening and playing), playing kingdom hearts, pets.
Btw, I am a very logical thinker, so if you don't like people that are more logical than emotional, you might not like me... Oh and I love having arguments! (Not mean ones, mainly logical) ╮(￣▽￣)╭