Spanish Language Services in Portland, Oregon

Marina Walberg was born in Buenos  Aires, Argentina  and lived there until 2007. She started teaching English as a Second Language in 1996 and was trained as a teacher at "Lenguas Vivas" in Buenos Aires. Teaching has been a wonderful journey since then.  She worked in an elementary school classroom for ten years and during that time also tutored children with learning difficulties in private lessons.  Experience taught her how unique and gifted each human being is and how we all benefit from that diversity.

Teaching Spanish in Portland has offered her a unique opportunity to share her culture with students. Marina enjoys introducing grammar topics using the comic strips, songs, and short stories she grew up with as a child and young adult. She believes that through these resources  Spanish can be understood and learned at all levels. One of her goals is to provide a warm and friendly learning environment where students are encouraged  to speak the language no matter how much or little they know.  She likes to encourage her  students to take risks and allow themselves to make mistakes, since she believes that those are ultimately the most valuable learning experiences they can have.

In her free time Marina likes to practice yoga, take walks with her husband and swim in Oregon’s beautiful rivers in the summertime.