# Spanish immersion in Costa Rica

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-immersion-in-costa-rica/67433>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 3, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-immersion-in-costa-rica/67433 "2001-06-03T15:25:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-immersion-in-costa-rica/67433/1 "2001-06-03T15:25:14Z")

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I have always wanted to do a Spanish immersion program. I have always wanted to go to Costa Rica. I have two weeks of vacation that I must take in the next four months.

Have any of you out there done one of these programs? Do you have any recommendations for me? Is it a worthwhile thing to do for two weeks?

There seems to be a couple of dozen of these programs that I’ve found from searching the web. In some of them you are supposed to board with a family but I’d rather live in a nice hotel.

Thanks,  
Haj

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-immersion-in-costa-rica/67433/2 "2001-06-03T15:34:48Z")

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I haven’t done it in Costa Rica, but I did it in Spain (a four-week course). Haj, you _really_ should live with a family. That’s where you’ll really get in your practice of the language. Two weeks isn’t nearly enough time to really learn anything if you aren’t _completely_ immersing yourself in it and you won’t be if you’re living on your own.

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**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-immersion-in-costa-rica/67433/3 "2001-06-03T15:58:44Z")

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I recommend [Amerispan](http://www.amerispan.com/), a program that has Spanish language schools in Mexico and other Latin American countries, including several in Costa Rica. You can live with a family (they arrange this) and there is a small student/teacher ratio. Buena suerte!  
Jill

[Edited by JillGat on 06-03-2001 at 11:02 AM]