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The Beaverton start-up is making strides in social entrepreneurship By Christina Lent The Beaverton Valley Times, Nov 29, 2007, Updated Oct 30, 2009 Clay and Cindy Cooper are pioneers in creating a new online language teaching industry. It’s been two years since the Beaverton couple launched Speak Shop, a unique online company that offers fair [...]

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OPB – News Radio BY KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL Portland, OR  October 29, 2007 3:35 p.m. Listen to radio broadcast. Starting a new business is difficult at the best of times. But if you’re also trying to make that business altruistic, the job can be doubly difficult. One Oregon couple is using their computer — and friends [...]

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by Karen Leggett http://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/IE_MayJun07_ActiveEngagement.pdf

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Adoptive Families March/April 2006 Here’s a chance to learn Spanish by speaking one-on-one with tutors in Guatemala – without even leaving your living room.  Speak Shop enables students around the world to take personalized Spanish lessons on their computer via videoconferencing, allowing for instant audio and visual  feedback.  At $5 to $6 per session, Speak [...]

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Fair Trade Online Spanish Tutoring Company Delivers Social and Financial Benefits Beaverton, OR (PRWEB) February 16, 2006 — Speak Shop, http://www.speakshop.com, an award-winning pioneer in live online Spanish tutoring, has been named a semi-finalist in the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC). GSVC is a global business plan competition organized by the Berkeley Haas School of [...]

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Professionals link up with private tutors in Guatemala from their home or office PCs. Portland, OR (PRWEB) September 8, 2005 — Speak Shop, www.speakshop.com, is an award-winning pioneer in online foreign language tutoring. Medical and legal professionals use Speak Shop to take face-to-face Spanish lessons with experienced tutors in Guatemala — when they want, without [...]

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Article printed in Sustainable Travel Report, Vol. 3 No. 7, July 2005. The Sustainable Travel Report newsletter is available at http://www.sustainabletravelinternational.org. When you travel, knowing the local language can mean the difference between a good trip and a great one, staying healthy, getting lost or sitting on the most beautiful, silky sand beach you’ve ever [...]

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Speak Shop puts Guatemalan instructors face-to-face with students all over the world, and no one has to leave their desk. For the first time, these tutors can benefit from global e-commerce.

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