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A Crash Course To Costa Rica Slang and Expressions

You can’t call yourself fluent in Costa Rican Spanish unless you understand its slang. Maybe you already speak Spanish. If that is true, you probably...

The Tico Times’ second book pays homage to Costa Rican life and language

Katherine Stanley Obando discusses bicultural family life, writing as a new parent, and why "manda huevo" is her ultimate Costa Rican phrase. Meet the author of The Tico Times' new book, "Love in Translation."

Who’s on first? Misadventures in language-land

“Who's on First,” the famous dialogue by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello about baseball players with funny names, was first used in 1938 and...

Meet the guy trying to turn emoji into a legitimate, usable language

Fred Benenson is raising funds for an online tool that could translate even complex English sentences into emoji. Unlike other efforts in this vein, Benenson's "Emoji Translation Project" won't just match keywords to their equivalent symbols and sub the symbols in. Instead, it will work much like Google's high-powered translation engine.

Peace Corps celebrates a successful year of teaching English

While “TEFL” stands for “Teaching English as a Foreign Language,” it means different things to different people. For the U.S. Peace Corps, the four-year-old TEFL program is a massive collaboration with the Education Ministry, and this year, that program took great strides.
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Costa Rica Moves 2,700 Corals Deeper to Escape El Niño Heat

Scientists moved 2,700 corals at Isla Tortuga into deeper water as El Niño heat raises the risk of bleaching on Costa Rica reefs.

Costa Rica Ransomware Attacks Rise 39%, Microsoft Reports

Ransomware attacks targeting Costa Rica increased by 39% over the past year, placing us among the world's ten most affected nations, according to Microsoft's...

National Team Defender Among Four Held in Costa Rica Loan-Shark Extortion Probe

Cartaginés right-back Carlos Barahona, 24, was detained in pre-dawn raids in Cartago as a suspect in extortion tied to gota a gota loans.

Costa Rica’s Public Schools Have Lost 180,000 Students in Five Years

Public school enrollment in Costa Rica has fallen 16.5% since 2021 as births decline, while private schools have added more than 12,000 students.