Intercultura Language School Costa Rica - Beach/ City Campus
Location
Costa Rica: Heredia, Samara
Description
With two unique locations - Heredia and Playa Samara - Intercultura Spanish Language School offers you the opportunity to experience Costa Rica from two very different perspectives and provides total immersion in the Spanish language and culture. Each campus and region has a distinctive character, way of life and charm.
Move easily from one campus location to the other, without any interruptions in your learning process due to the consistent teaching methodology, class structure, materials and philosophy at both schools. And the best of it - you'll experience two different lifestyles of Costa Rican culture.
Spanish Classes & Cultural Activities
Intercultura Language School offers a series of 18 courses designed by curriculum specialists, using interactive small groups in an environment of total immersion in Costa Rican culture. Classes are 4 hours per day, Monday to Friday. Our professors are university trained and credentialed to teach Spanish as a second language. We give all teachers further instruction on teaching in the context of total cultural immersion. Academic credit through several accredited US university programs is available (e.g.. Brookhaven, Austin College, and Duke University).
Intercultura offers at both campuses fun cultural activities which are all free of charge for our language students: Latin Dance, Latin Music & Cooking Class, Zumba, Yoga, Arts & Crafts, spanish film nights, conversational class, eco-hiking, biking.
Tours to see more of Costa Rica.
We also have a tour guide on staff who can assist individual students/groups in creating tailored tours/excursions. Mention finding Intercultura on GoAbroad.com and receive USD25 off your Spanish class program price!
Teen Program - combines beach and city stays!
Every summer, Intercultura Costa Rica offers a Spanish Adventure immersion program for teens which allows adolescents to practice their Spanish and immerse themselves in Costa Rican culture. In addition to intensive Spanish classes, our teen summer program offers a variety of fun, chaperoned adventure activities, which will immerse teen students in the local culture and expose them to the amazing variety of wildlife and eco-systems in Costa Rica. The Teen Spanish & Adventure Camp takes place between late July and early August in a 2-week session which combines beach and city stays. From Monday to Friday, teens take 3.5 hours of Spanish classes per day with our fully credentialed professors, who have been specially trained to teach adolescents in a fun, communicative and real-life context, using the Intercultura textbooks designed specifically for adolescent learners.
Classes take place at our beautiful colonial city campus in Heredia and at our beachfront tropical campus (with air-conditioned classrooms) in Samara. In the remaining half of the days, teens engage in activities such as surf classes, coffee plantation tour, horse-riding, hiking through rain forest to swim and visit waterfalls, beach bike-ride, community service activities, ecological hikes, canopy zip line tours, bonfires and music on the beach, Latin dance and evening outings, arts & crafts class, and more. On weekends, students visit the highlights of Costa Rica, such as the live Arenal Volcano; Monteverde rainforest; and Manuel Antonio Beach and National Park. Weekends provide a mix of tour activities and free time to shop, eat and meet & mingle with the locals. Mention finding Intercultura on GoAbroad.com and receive USD25 off your Teen Camp program price!
Volunteer Program
Intercultura offers a volunteer program for all students who have completed a minimum of two weeks of language study with us. If you are interested in volunteering in Costa Rica, exploring Latin American culture and local communities, and spending some of your time abroad dedicated to helping others, Intercultura can help you achieve these goals. You can choose to stay in a city program in the Central Valley, or near our beach campus on the Pacific Coast. Our programs focus on development, education, health, social work and the environment, with volunteer opportunities for people of all ages and interests.
Intercultura offers a unique program, where you can work helping others and at the same time rely on the infrastructure of our Language Centers, with our full-time, multilingual support staff. Our volunteer program is a non-profit branch of our Centers, and a large part of student payments are used to help fund scholarships and materials for local schools, animal rescue projects, community development initiatives, and programs for at-risk children and youth.
Highlights
Intercultura Language School offers both group and private Spanish courses in an immersion environment. Homestays are available to help students both immerse themselves in the culture as well as the language. We also offer a variety of activities that are free to our students, such as Latin Dance classes, cooking classes, group and individual intercambios, etc. We have specialized programs available for teenagers, 50+ groups, and others. We can also generally tailor our programs to an individual or group's needs. Intercultura has a tour guide on staff who can assist in creating a specialized tour or excursion to suit your individual tastes. We have volunteer programs in both our beach (Samara) and city (Heredia) locations.