The Spanish spoken in Costa Rica is more or less the same as standard Castilian Spanish except for one big difference that confuses many people. Spanish has two forms for addressing a person: usted ...

Of the many frustrating, funny, difficult, and wonderful situations one encounters in the daily life of being an expat in Costa Rica, two items that are frequently at the top of list are difficulty ...

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, July 26 (UNHCR) - Bangalay came to Costa Rica by accident. He arrived while travelling from his native Côte d'Ivoire, heading towards what he believed was the United States.

This post, which will be published in two parts, is a version of one previously published on the site Afroféminas. The original post in Spanish can be seen here. When I was little, my mother told me ...

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP >> Seventh and eighth grade students from Newtown Friends School (NFS) journeyed to Costa Rica in March for a cross-cultural, language immersion experience. The trip included ...

As recently as 2023, the term pura vida finally entered the dictionary of the Real Academia Española, which defines the words and phrases used across the Spanish-speaking world. This particular ...