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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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Tourist Guide Dies in Flash Flood on Pérez Zeledón River

A tourist guide died yesterday when a wall of water came down the Río Barú in Pérez Zeledón and caught a group of roughly...

Argentina’s Navone Hands Djokovic His Earliest Grand Slam Exit in 20 Years

Novak Djokovic’s bid for a record 25th Grand Slam title ended almost as soon as it began Sunday night, with Argentina’s Mariano Navone pulling...

Wife of Extradited Trafficker Detained at Costa Rica Airport

Costa Rican authorities detained a woman sought in the largest organized-crime investigation this afternoon, moments after she stepped off a flight from Switzerland at...

Wildlife Trafficking in Costa Rica Moves onto Social Media

Currently unknown numbers of wild animals are illegally pulled from Costa Rica's forests, rivers and coastlines every year, according to the Attorney General's Office,...