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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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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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Startup: Speakshop.com By Amy Hsuan, Oregonian December 30, 2008, 1:46PM The company: Speakshop.com, Northeast Portland The product: A Web site that connects foreign-language students with Spanish tutors in Guatemala and Nicaragua via webcam. Created: August 2004 Suggested retail price: Tutors charge $7 to $10 an hour. Speakshop.com collects a membership fee from users ranging from [...]

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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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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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Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2007 By Laila Weir How Speak Shop uses the Web to help teachers earn more and students pay less. When Michael Parker sits down to his private Spanish tutoring sessions, he pays his teacher $8 per hour, which is much less than the $25 per hour he was previously paying [...]

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

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This article was written by Wendy Perkins and appeared in the spring 2006 issue of “Thunderbird” magazine. The seed was planted in the winter of 1998, when Clay Cooper ’00 traveled to Antigua, a beautiful, historic city in Guatemala, to soak up some culture and learn Spanish at an immersion school. the experience opened his [...]

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