If you are interested in being part of this exclusive team of professionals, please Contact Us. Besides Spanish teachers, we are also continually hiring people passionate about customer service, tourism, sales, marketing, human resources, SEO, management in general and other areas. If you have what it takes to be part of the best of the best, what are you waiting for?
Lorena Pitti - Current School Director in Boquete
- 30 years old
- Single with 1 son
- College degree in Liberal Arts with specialization in English
- 100% Fluent in English
- An extremely patient person: she really cares
- Head of the Customer Service and Sales Department
- She has just been appointed as the School Director in August of 2008 thanks to her people and management skills
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Our expert with beginners and retirees, Lorena has received more gifts from students than all the rest of the staff put together. Her students simply adore her and see her as a true friend. She also teaches low-intermediates. She is very patient and will be with you until you master every specific topic.
Janeth Martínez - Current Academic Director in Boquete
- 31 years old
- Married with 2 children
- Current Academic Director
- University degree in Spanish
- She is the teacher who most research has done at our school and because of this she is in charge to revise each of the learning materials produced by the rest of the teachers and that are used in class each day
- Main responsible in the training of the rest of our Spanish staff
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Janeth is our most dynamic, fun and interactive teacher. She will always keep your brain moving in class. She can teach students of all ages and levels as she is one of our teachers with the highest academic level. A very special person that is also a nature lover and enjoys excursions with our students during the weekends.
Erica Tapia Tapia
- 34 years old
- Married with 1 daughter
- College degree in Liberal Arts with specialization in Spanish
- University degree as a Spanish teacher
- She is currently our Academic Coordinator
- Our most experienced teacher
- Chilled out and easy going
- An extremely smart and patient teacher
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Erica can handle students of any level and teaches all our courses except Spanish 4 kids. A natural leader she also keeps track of our student's advance throughout our level system and supervises the creation and classification of new teaching and working material for all of our Spanish courses.
Bladimir Víquez
- 33 years old
- Married with a child on the way
- College degree in Liberal Arts with specialization in Spanish
- University degree as a Spanish teacher
- Masters in Liberal Arts with specialization in Spanish teaching
- Fluent in French
- Cultured free thinker
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Our specialist in advanced students, Bladimir also teaches intermediates. He will make you work a little bit harder and will push you to advance as fast as you can. A well read teacher with a high cultural level who has written several award winning poems and short stories. He will always provide enjoyable and interesting conversation within the classroom.
Nevele Chambers
- 36 years old
- Married, 2 children
- College degree in Liberal Arts with specialization in Spanish
- University Degree as a high school teacher
- Currently learning English
- Inquisitive and always looking for ways to do her job better
- Although she has only taught at our school for a short time she appears to have the experience of a veteran
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After devoting 10 years of her life to raising her family at home, Nevelé decided to go back to the professional world and fulfill her vocation: teaching! Nevelé is characterized by always wanting to learn and to find new ways to do her job better. She has certainly secured a slot in our team due her commitment to her job.
Katherine Vargas
- 30 years old
- Single, 1 daughter
- College degree in Liberal Arts with specialization in Spanish
- University Degree as a high school teacher
- Currently taking a Masters in Superior Education
- A perfectionist: she is not satisfied until she is the best at what she does and this is why Katherine has gained the respect of all of her colleagues in such a short time
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With an inviting big wide smile Katherine welcomes her students to the class. She can explain each topic in so many different ways. This versatility comes from her commitment to excellence. Katherine is extremely aware that each student is different and this is why she devotes so much of her time in finding a way to explain the most difficult topics.
Vielka Alvenis Miranda Espinosa
- 36 years old
- Married
- College degree in Liberal Arts with specialization in Spanish
- University degree as a High School Teacher with specialization in Spanish
- An extremely effective Spanish teacher
- Not afraid to give an opinion, Vielka always challenges every single person that works with her
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One of our best Spanish teachers, she got an offer to work with the government and we were not able to retain her full time but during the summers she still works with us and remains as an external consultant for academic matters. She can also handle any type of students. Vielka is very smart, always looking for new ideas and continually seeking excellence in what she does.
Julio J. Santamaría B.
- Co-founder of Habla Ya at age 23 and CEO of Tourism Generation, Inc.
- Married, 2 children
- Engineering in Electronics & Telecomunications by ITESM in Monterrey, México
- In charge of Strategy Planning, Marketing, Human Resources and Sales (as well as partnerships with agents)
- Webmaster, Content Writer and Search Engine Optimizer
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If you need anything, look for Julio. He is here to do what it takes so that you can have the best Spanish learning experience. Have a question? He has an answer? Have a problem? He has a solution. Let him exceed your expectations.
Carlos Raúl Cabrera Toledo
- Co-founder of Habla Ya and the school's first Director and Manager at age 23
- Single
- Industrial Engineer by la USMA in Panama City
- Responsible for hiring most of Habla Ya's current teachers
- Vice-President of Tourism Generation, Inc.
- Currently...
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If you want to party, have fun, go out dancing, play some soccer or go on a hiking trip, Carlos is your guy. He always knows what is happening in town and even if you are not a student he is always looking for people to go out and have fun with.
Irma Changmarín Isaza
Irma Changmarín, an industrial engineer that discovered that teaching was her vocation, had 5 years of experience in teaching Spanish as a foreign language in Panama City when she went to Sevilla and took the renowned course for teaching Spanish as a foreign language at the famous institution CLIC IH Sevilla in Spain.
- Joined Habla Ya at age 34 in January of 2006 during 1 year
- Engineering in Industrial Engineering
- Masters in Business Administration
- Diploma for teaching Spanish as a foreign language in Spain
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Irma trained most of our current teachers in the latest advances made in the Communicative method for language teaching and together with the rest of our teachers she set the foundations to design and built our initial level system and syllabus.
Lucía Alvarado Cantero
Lucía joined Habla Ya on a temporal contract during 3 months to do the training of our first teachers. Our first teachers had Spanish degrees from local universities but no previous experience in teaching Spanish to foreigners. She could not stay any longer due to Panamanian immigration laws.
- Joined Habla Ya at age 25 in August of 2005 during 3 months.
- Degree in philology in 2003 from Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José.
- Previous experience at Costa Rican Language Academy, Forester Instituto Internacional and WAYRA Instituto de Español.
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Panamanian Spanish Schools are very recent in comparison to their counterpart in Costa Rica. In Costa Rica you can find more than 70 or 80 language schools throughout the country and several of them have been around for more than 30 or 40 years. In Panama you will not find schools with more than 15 years of experience in teaching Spanish. This is why we decided to import Lucía's experience from Costa Rica.
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