Christopher Howard’s Guide to Costa Rican Spanish

Christopher Howard’s Guide to Costa Rican Spanish by Christopher Howard is a second edition pocket-size guidebook published by Costa Rica Books in 2005. This practical resource is designed for travelers and English-speaking residents of Costa Rica, focusing on the nuances of the local Spanish dialect. It includes pronunciation exercises, useful expressions for everyday situations, and vocabulary relevant to business and legal contexts, making it a handy tool for navigating the linguistic landscape of Costa Rica.
Readers will find a unique collection of Costa Rican slang and expressions, known as tiquismos, along with a brief English/Spanish and Spanish-English dictionary. This guide emphasizes practical communication rather than serving as a comprehensive language course or textbook. With 248 pages, this edition is compact enough to fit in a pocket or purse, ensuring that it can be easily accessed while exploring the country.
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An innovative one-of-a-kind pocket-size guidebook for Costa Rican-style Spanish. It is specifically written and designed for travelers and above all English-speaking residents of the country to learn the nuances of the local language. It contains practical pronunciation exercises to help you sound like a native Spanish speaker, useful expressions for everyday situations you may encounter in Costa Rica, tips and short cuts for learning Spanish, vocabulary including business and legal terms, social situations, a SHORT English/Spanish – Spanish-English dictionary and more. This guide is the ONLY source for Costa Rican slang and expressions (tiquismos) in English. If you are thinking of moving to Costa Rica this book is a MUST in order to survive. Because of its handy size it can easily fit easily in a pocket or purse so you can have it with you at all times as you work your way through Costa Rica’s linguistic jungle. Readers should NOT expect a complete course in learning the Spanish Language NOR a textbook but a PRACTICAL introduction to Costa Rican-style Spanish.
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