I still remember my introduction to Spanish as spoken in rural Costa Rica. I had a good, but inflexible vocabulary, with one word in Spanish for most nouns and verbs. Cerdo was the word for pig, until ...

Learning a new language later in life requires patience, perseverance, and the understanding that, no matter how fluent you become, you’ll probably never reach the level you have with your native ...

Montgomery County fire department employees used a taxpayer-funded tuition assistance program to take Spanish lessons in Costa Rica that included cooking and dancing classes, according to records ...