learning spanish

The Spanish spoken in Costa Rica is more or less the same as standard Castilian Spanish except for one big difference that confuses many...

In a previous article I offered some valuable tips to help English speaking travelers to Costa Rica (or elsewhere) and expat residents improve the...

One of the most daunting tasks that newbie expats are faced with is learning everyday Spanish survival skills . Most expats do not even know...

Anyone thinking of relocating or traveling to Costa Rica should at least acquire survival level Spanish to survive and enjoy what the country has...

You can't call yourself fluent in Costa Rican Spanish unless you understand its slang. 

A visit to Costa during the Christmas holidays can you tell you a lot about Costa Rican culture and people.

Spanish can be melodramatic.A telenovela or novela is a Spanish language soap opera. Telenovelas seem to be the opiate of the masses in Latin...

You can't call yourself fluent in Costa Rican Spanish unless you understand its slang. 

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...

La farándula is a group of local characters consisting of figures from business, sports, politics, modeling, entertainment, rich and beautiful people and the famous. I guess you could say it is sort of like Costa Rica’s version of the Jet Set.