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TalkAbroad founder discusses Silicon Valley, Omaha startup scene
In January of this year, Todd Nichols began working full-time on his startup, TalkAbroad, a company using online video conferencing to connect American college students learning a foreign language with native speakers abroad. The idea for the Omaha native’s startup came about while working for a micro-finance organization in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he learned to…
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TalkAbroad connects U.S. college students with native speakers
Foreign language study, which is central to Todd Nichols’ company, TalkAbroad, wasn’t central to his early college career. “I found the memorization of words and the grammar studies to be pretty dry,” said Nichols, an Omaha native. His outlook on learning a second language changed, however, when he studied abroad in Cuba and put what…