The magic of Friendships & Fluency.Elevate your Spanish naturally through our nurturing social atmosphere. The key to fluency is putting people first and having fun doing it! Your first week is to relax, learn the local lingo and just slow down to our "pura vida" pace of life. Adapting to family and community takes a few days as you orient yourself to different sounds, foods and people. We enjoy making you feel at home. So don't laugh at our English and we promise not to laugh at your Spanish. This is a truly unique opportunity to experience the rural high school culture of Costa Rica.
The crucial role of peer interactionPeer engagement transforms language learning from a solitary endeavor into a social, interactive, and dynamic process. It enriches Spanish with lively engagement, making it not only educational but also enjoyable, thereby elevating language learning into a new social realm.
Social inclusive immersion: Engaging with peers fosters a sense of community and shared adventure. This sense of belonging encourages lifelong language connections, where individuals continue to explore and improve their Spanish skills even outside formal educational settings. Natural Language Use: Interacting with peers provides opportunities for natural conversational practice. Students can engage in everyday discussions, enhancing their speaking and listening skills. Increased Motivation: Healthy competition and collaborative projects among peers "breaks the shyness", encouraging interaction from local teens creates a positive and fun environment - boosting motivation, empathy and friendship. Retension Soars: Immersed in a real community is unforgettable, language comes alive -its impact builds confidence while forging independence and self-reliance. open enrollment
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Grow your Spanish with us.Summer is a beginning, a chance to reach out beyond your own world and embrace another. Can travel inspire greater connections? Yes, by going beyond the structure of tourism and engaging the true adventure of real people and community. Adventure leads to new discoveries, it makes us look deeper at ourselves which summons a new strength and openess. We hope you will grow with us and we hope to grow from you. We invite you during summer - but we hope your experience leads to greater friendships and new opportunities you never imagined possible.
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Peace of Mind.We embrace you into our lives. Taking care of all the details so you can put your energy into living just like a local high school student. We muster with students everyday to coordinate activities and support individual needs. Additionally, we supervise homestays, making sure each student is healthy and happy. We are supported by both the high school directors and village community leadership. Secondly, we invite parents to come get to know us at "pre or post" trip. We'll help with arrangements.
Ilba Prego, Program Director and her staff are on-cite and supervise all aspects of the student experience.
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The leadership.The courage to step out of your comfort zone is the beginning of leadership, true leadership is about creating deeper and honest connections. During your journey with us you'll meet the caring people who lead our social and community programs. Openness is the beauty of our small community. We know we all have differences - we must find common ground and bring our shared values forward.
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Our Community Challenge - approx. 70 hrs.
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Share with us your talents and laughter! |
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Costa Rica
Youth Exchange Tilaran, Costa Rica Director - Ilba Prego call or whatsapp 011-506-62516085 (Costa Rica) [email protected] |
Did you know?
We offer flexible dates Our high schools are in session. 100% of tuition- stays in our village We are Central America's oldest high school summer exchange. We offer an accredited semester program |