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Video chat Spanish lessons are helping individuals improve their fluency and connect across cultures Portland, OR (PRWEB) July 14, 2010 Speak Shop, the award-winning provider of live Spanish lessons by video chat, has now delivered more than 15,000 hours of one-on-one Spanish lessons. “I remember asking our first customer, ‘Do you think you will be [...]

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Untours Catalog, Fall 2009 Clay Cooper had always struggled to learn Spanish. It wasn’t until he studied in Guatemala at age 31 that he finally succeeded. During that trip he also learned that hard work and education did not always pay off. With limited opportunities in Guatemala, even his university-educated tutor lived in poverty. That [...]

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Speak Shop Leads the Industry in Social Performance Standards by Becoming the First Language Instruction Provider to Achieve B Corp Certification PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Speak Shop, http://www.speakshop.com, a pioneer in online language tutoring via webcam, reported today they have been certified a B (Benefit) Corporation. B Corporations are a new kind of company that uses the [...]

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Ode Magazine, April 2009 By Jill Replogle Twice a week, Margo Griffin, who lives in Denver, Colorado, has a one-on-one Spanish lesson with her teacher, Mayra Juárez, who lives miles and miles away, in Antigua, Guatemala. Both attend from the comfort of their homes via the Internet, a webcam and an innovative socially responsible business [...]

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The Miami Herald, March 09, 2009 By Jill Replogle Twice a week Margo Griffin, who lives in Denver, Colo., has a one-on-one Spanish class with her tutor, Mayra Juárez, who lives in Antigua. Both attend the class from the comfort of their own homes via Internet, webcam and an innovative business called Speak Shop. Offering [...]

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San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 2009 By Susan Fornoff Judging from comments on last Sunday’s “Five Places” list of oceanfront hotels, readers want cheap options. “Outside of a campground for not-so-rich weirdos, where can you stay by the ocean for under $79 a night?” one asked. Another reader commented: “I know a really good seaside [...]

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Lisa Monforton, Calgary Herald Published: Saturday, February 21, 2009 Hablas espanol? I can’t count the number of times of I’ve gone to Mexico and vow the next time I return, I’ll be able to converse with a cabbie or utter more than “Cerveza, por favor.” Night classes or Spanish for Dummies DVDs can be helpful but [...]

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Lowell Sun, January 24, 2009 By Bridge Scrimenti The sound of Spanish vocabulary and laughter echo around Kerri Piette’s kitchen table. Each week Piette takes Spanish lessons from Leonor Chivichón. However, Piette lives in Carlisle and Chivichón in Guatemala. The two women connect through Speak Shop, a business that offers Spanish lessons from native speakers [...]

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BrainstormNW, April 2008 By Lisa Baker THIRD WORLD POVERTY IS AN OVERWHELMING THING. Those who have seen it with their own eyes return home chastened by the experience but can think of no earthly way to make a dent in the misery. After all, what can one person, one family, one couple do by themselves [...]

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Edutopia, March 11, 2008 By Laila Weir Here are four steps to adding that je ne sais quoi to your language lessons via free Internet resources. One of the biggest challenges for foreign language teachers is to expose their students to authentic speech by native speakers. Another is to immerse them in the culture of [...]

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