Spanish – Banter, a pura vida life skill
- NOV 06, 2017Costa Ricans take politeness very seriously. Politeness comes before truthfulness, before anything else you need to say. But if the language of politeness is their cultural ba
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Spanish – Here’s Looking at You, Kid
- SEP 04, 2017Choosing words to express politeness is an interesting aspect of the Costa Rican persona. (more…)
Spanish – Yearning for Learning
- AUG 03, 2017Nothing is more gratifying than learning something new, the stages of learning create an exciting process that helps us maintain a young and healthy mind. One of the most exci
Spanish – Seven Motivating Reasons to Start Learning Today!
- JUL 04, 2017Everyone needs a bit of motivation now and then, but no one more than a second language learner. The learning curve is steep and the road to fluency is long. Learning a second
Spanish: Verbs to Live By
- JUN 05, 2017So you are going along learning this word and that, catching phrases, repeating a couple and beginning to understand basic concepts. You have officially leveled up. If you hav
Spanish – Beware of False Friends
- MAY 05, 2017[vc_row full_width=”full_width”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -Prin
Breaking the barriers of learning Spanish
- MAR 03, 2017Learning is the one part of life that makes us truly understand the strength of always taking that next step. Learning a second language is a challenge for the majority of the
Verbalicious
- FEB 01, 2017The one part of learning any Latin-based language that can make you cry Uncle! is the verbs. In English this is not an issue; we don’t conjugate much. In Spanish the verb ch
A pitch of Pura Vida
- DEC 28, 2016As the dry season and the high season kick into gear we locals look forward to the arrival of tourists and visitors. As a recovering New Yorker, I love to see the range of lan
The Art of Listening
- DEC 02, 2016This hurdle can be a true challenge to overcome. I have students who can do all the leg work of the language but freeze when they have to face a native speaker. These feelings