ABOUT BePolyglot
BePolyglot
is dedicated to creating multilingual speakers
in an ever increasingly connected world. It does so by taking advantage
of the myriad of similarities that exist between the five major
Romance languages and by connecting the student to anytime and anywhere
online access to native speakers.
BePolyglot
targets the challenge and opportunity that lies in learning similar
languages, by providing a systematic method for effective learning.
It shows how the five languages interact, what is similar and different,
and derives rules and insights into how to avoid mixing words and
grammar structures.
BePolyglot
is a for-profit social enterprise. It is a social
venture in the sense that it builds on the language capabilities
of native speakers in developing countries and it empowers them
to invest their earnings for the benefit of their community. These
speakers earn the exact amount that the student pays for the online
native speaker access; these speakers, in turn, give back to their
community by investing part of their earnings in community initiatives.
BePolyglot
ensures its sustainability through the initial membership fee, which
generates just enough profit to provide complementary comparative
language material and to cover its operational expenses.
Araceli
Jimenez is a housewife who lives with her 5-year-old son and her
husband in the village of Atoyac in Guerrero, Mexico. The state
of Guerrero is one of the poorest states in Mexico, with one third
of the population living in extreme poverty and with violence as
a recurrent theme. Araceli provides immediate online Spanish language
support to students from all over the world who need last-minute
Spanish help, either with their Spanish class homework or their
conversation skills. With what she earns, Araceli is able to invest
in an English language school in her community that charges a modest
fee that many children would otherwise not be able to pay.
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