The vacation plans were not what my 12-year-old daughter, Sofia, wanted to hear. Sitting in the car on the way home from school last June she crossed her arms defiantly as I told her excitedly about ...

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 ...

You can’t call yourself fluent in Costa Rican Spanish unless you understand its slang. Color: Literally is a color like red, blue, etc. but in Costa Rica can also mean shame. ¡Qué color! Is a common ...

With a score of 65.8 in The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom, Costa Rica is the most economically free country in the traditional five-nation Central American bloc. It is ranked ...