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sporto505 wrote:

IMHO, Costa Rica is a great country to live in but not a good country to learn espanol in.聽 Ticos talk fast and cut off syllables in their words.聽 It is to me almost impossible to understand because even if you can recognize a word, in spanish context is everything.聽 .聽 If you want to learn spanish, go live in Columbia for a few years.聽 In general Columbian's pronounce their words and speak much slower.聽 Get to where you can understand what they are saying THEN move to Costa Rica and you might have a chance of leaning Tico espanol.聽 聽
Go online to find a woman with your requirements list.聽 That is how I met mi novia.聽 I would take a Tica over a gringa any day of the week.聽 No offence to any gringa reading this, just my own experience.聽 Tica's love their FAITHFUL mates, and their families.聽 If you get a Tica your getting her family too.聽 If it's a poor family it is their natural expectation you will help them.聽 Hence the prior ATM comment.

I learned Spanish at a school in San Jose (after having studied quite a bit in the USA with non-native teachers). In San Jose the school I went to taught very proper Spanish.

And most of the people in San Jose speak better Spanish than in the back country and beaches here.
I can almost always understand the people in San Jose. But in the country side where I live I can barely understand them at all sometimes. My friend (Tico) speaks very bad Spanish and he mumbles and slurs words etc and I have learned to understand him about 80% of the time but still I have to ask him to repeat stuff often. My wife spoke fluent Spanish and even she had trouble understanding some of the people around here! She also had a Peruvian friend in the US who spoke so fast she couldn't understand her half the time!

I think the only way to learn the Spanish "of the back country" in Costa Rica is to first learn Spanish then just spend a lot of time talking to people in the region you live in. But yea, some of the people "out in the country" are VERY hard to understand. In San Jose I understand almost everyone. Not here in the countryside.

Bottom line is I don't think there's anything wrong with learning Spanish in Costa Rica. Wherever you learn it you will likely NOT find it easy to understand people in the campo or countryside in Costa Rica. But you will eventually learn enough to understand most of it.

And it takes years of practice for most people to speak and understand Spanish fluently. But you will learn much faster when you live in a Spanish speaking country and/or have a Spanish speaking girlfriend!

And some learn faster than others.

What I will say is that it is, to me, ESSENTIAL to learn Spanish if you're going to live here. Without it you will miss out on too much! Just jump in, start learning asap even if it's just online, and study the books for verb conjugations and vocabulary meanings too. All that will focus you and you will learn faster. Also try watching tv like soap operas in Spanish - if possible, with subtitles in Spanish so you can see the words as they speak them.