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Welcome to the Newsroom for Speak Shop where you can learn about our Spanish instruction program and our social mission to generate economic opportunity for people in developing countries.

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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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Online Spanish tutoring provider honors happy former clients Portland, OR, (PRWEB) June 9, 2010 — Speak Shop, the award-winning provider of live online Spanish classes and certified B Corp (for benefit company), “We get very nice notes from customers who are about to close their accounts that say, ‘It’s not you, it’s me….’ I thought: [...]

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Rebeca Gonzalez Recognized for Exceptional Online Spanish Instruction Portland, OR — February 10, 2010— Speak Shop, http://www.speakshop.com, the first and only registered B Corporation (for benefit company) offering online Spanish lessons via webcam, is pleased to announce Rebeca Gonzalez as the 2009 Tutor of the Year. Speak Shop tutors are micro-business owners, setting their own [...]

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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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Skype Blog, April 13, 2009 by Howard Wolinsky Back in 1998, Clay Cooper took an immersion Spanish class in Antigua, Guatemala.  He was impressed with the effectiveness of the method. But he told me he was stunned to discover that his tutor, a university-educated man, lived in poverty. He told me that the tutors were [...]

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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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Once a week Steve Milhollin meets his Spanish tutor, even though they’re thousands of miles apart. He lives in Carter Lake, Iowa. The tutor, Claritza Morales, is in Antigua, Guatemala. They connect online through Speak Shop, a California-based firm that offers tutoring to students worldwide and employs teachers in impoverished countries. Milhollin liked the idea of connecting with a native speaker online. But little did he know that his Spanish lessons would blossom into something more – a friendship. Milhollin signed up with the language site last…

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Boston Globe, March 26, 2009 by Jennifer Fenn Lefferts Video technology links students, native speakers   When Jackie Spinos entered her senior year at Burlington High School’s evening academy this year, Spanish II was a top priority. The 19-year-old needed the class to graduate this spring, but the school couldn’t afford to hire a Spanish [...]

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