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  • Spanish teacher training course in Jacó Beach

    Spanish teacher training course in Jacó Beach

    A quick update to share some pictures. These ones are from last Friday when we gathered our “dream team” of teachers at the Academia Tica Jacó campus for a training day. This is part of our plan for continuous development, for sharing ideas and learning new teaching techniques. Also a chance to enjoy some lunch, brownies and coffee with teachers from both our campuses together.

    Although not all of our teachers could join, it was fun! Thanks to all the teachers for their participation and their inputs and to Gabriela for organizing the workshop and the amazing brownies! See you on the next one!

    This training day is not to be confused with Academia Tica’s Spanish for Spanish teachers course 🙂

    Spanish teachers training course - games
    Some Spanish card games spice up the day
    Spanish teachers dream team
    Familiar faces? 🙂

    Una actualización rápida para compartir unas fotos. Éstas son del viernes pasado cuando reunimos a nuestro “equipo de ensueño” de profesores en el campus de Academia Tica Jacó para una capacitación. Esto es parte de nuestro plan de mejoramiento continuo, para compartir ideas y nuevas técnicas de enseñanza. También es una oportunidad para disfrutar de un almuerzo, brownies y café con los profesores de ambos campus.

    Aunque no todos nuestros profesores pudieron llegar, ¡fue divertido! Gracias a todos los profesores por su participación y sus aportes, a Gabriela por organizar el taller ¡y por los increíbles brownies! ¡Nos vemos en el próximo taller!

    Este día de capacitación no debe confundirse con el curso para profesores de Academia Tica 🙂

  • ¡Gracias Sele! Celebration discounts

    ¡Gracias Sele! Celebration discounts

    Costa Rica is out of the run for World Champion, but the whole world cheered as they finished unbeaten in 5th place, just under four of the historically strongest national teams.

    We celebrate this fantastic performance as the underdogs, and all the passion that it inspired not only in Ticos, but in people everywhere praising the names of Jorge Luis Pinto, Bryan Ruiz, Joel Campbell, Celso Borges and Keylor Navas, among others. We would like to honor La Sele’s trip to Brazil 2014 with 25% flash discount!!

    The rules:

    • 25% discount over tuition fees.
    • Only valid for Main Group courses, minimum of 2 weeks and has to be taken during 2014. Courses can be combined with private lessons for a “Combination” course or with a Surf program (charged separately).
    • Special ends: July 31st.
    • Applies for courses taken at both campuses: Coronado and Jacó Beach.
    • First 5 bookings will receive a Costa Rica World Cup Kit!
    • Current accommodation discounts for student residence (Coronado) and shared apartments (Jacó) apply as well (10%).

    We hope you’ll join us with the celebration! For any questions, contact us!

    Learn more about the school & our courses here.

  • Season discounts June 2014

    Season discounts June 2014

    The  sloth brings good news! We’re offering a few discounts for this season:

    • Surf and Spanish course now $495 per week for the first two weeks and $465 for every extra week.
    • 10% discount over the Main Group course for bookings of 2 weeks or more (Jacó Beach and Coronado)
    • 10% discount over single rooms at the Shared Apartments (Jacó Beach) and Student Residence (Coronado) accommodations for bookings of 2 weeks or more

    Please contact us for more information.

    (image via our organic friends at Viandas)

  • New adventures

    New adventures

    Welcome to our new blog!

    Here at Academia Tica we  pride ourselves on high caliber in-classroom instruction, while our students and staff remain active participants in the community outside school walls. For us, language learning is not just about traveling, passing a test or getting a new job — it is about cultural understanding and friendship most of all. This is at the heart of why we have been in business more than 25 years and why we still love what we do. Between one campus on the Pacific Coast and another in central Costa Rica, we have lots of amazing experiences to share and we hope this blog will help show what language learning and pura vida are all about!