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  • Finding Your Niche in Costa Rica: Sports and Outdoor Activities0

    Costa Rica is a country with an immense number of things to do. In fact, the only difficulty is getting the time and the opportunity to do all of them. Yes, I know that many other countries offer a vast array of sporting and leisure activities, but where else could you enjoy these sports in

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  • Where am I? Getting directions in Costa Rica0

    Even our taxi driver was lost. “Where’s the mango tree?” he asked the person on the cell phone. The taxi sat idling on the side of the road as the driver spoke to the host of the party that we were going to somewhere in the hills of Escazu. He nodded his head and then

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  • Tasting the Great Food of Costa Rica0

    Have you ever tried ‘speckled rooster’? It’s the national dish of Costa Rica, and not what you’re possibly thinking. In Spanish, ‘speckled rooster’ is gallo pinto, and many Costa Ricans religiously eat it for breakfast. It is one of the many appetizing dishes on offer in this beautiful country. Due to Costa Rica being one

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  • Lexi-tico: Gato0

    GATO (ga-to) And now, the time has come to talk about one of those strikingly polysemic words Costa Ricans have -and use- in a variety of situations. Chances are, if you do speak Spanish, even at a beginner level, that this word is probably one of the first one hundred you ever learned. I mean, at

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  • Lexi-tico: Gallito0

    GALLITO (ga-ʝi-to) Most Costa Ricans have a thing for diminutives and, you probably know this by now, right? And chances are some of these words have already been incorporated into your Spanish language arsenal. Words like “momentito” (jiffy), or the much used “toquecito” (jiffy),  chiquito/a (little boy/girl), and/or others ending in -ico (pequeño/pequeñitico), the latter two translating as

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  • Lexi-tico: Polaco0

    POLACO (po-la’-ko) So, in Spanish, we would use the words brasileño/brasileña to refer to a Brazilian national, for instance, -a male and a female in this case-. And the same word endings are used with most nationalities. So, it is no surprise that a national of, say, Poland, is called polaco or polaca. So, what

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