Bocas del Toro: A Tropical Paradise Awaiting Your Discovery Located on the northeastern coast of Panama, the province of Bocas del Toro stands as a tropical paradise ready to captivate your senses. With its pristine beaches, lush rainforests, and vibrant marine life, this stunning destination offers an abundance of activities and experiences that will leave you breathless. Isla Colón, the...

Meaningful travel Your travel in 2022 can be different from before, more meaningful, so to say. Meaningful for yourself cause it enriches your life, for example, through making your own life better by discovering and learning new things about the world and yourself. But also cause you to do something good for the world, for our planet, the only one...

 About taking online Spanish classes   You might already know … we have always been very proud about our product: Spanish classes in a natural setting; meaning that we teach Spanish in and around our hostels, in the garden, on the balcony, all in the open air. We have teachers that love their countries (Costa Rica and Panama) and their...

General Description: The St. Francis Emmaus Center is part of St. Bryce Missions Love in Action programming in Costa Rica. The center provides a safe, comfortable place for Cabecar mothers, who must journey long hours on foot to have access to medical care, in the days just before and after the birth of a child or in the event of...

La Tortuga Feliz is a non profit organisation, driven by volunteers for volunteers, to protect marine turtles in Costa Rica. Tasks: In the months March through August, you can help with the realization of the project objectives, mainly by patrolling the beaches at night in shifts with the local inhabitants, looking for nesting sea turtles. The turtle hatchery is manned...

Struggling to learn the irregular verbs? How do you know a verb is going to be irregular? Well, first of all, just like in English and other languages, the verbs that we mostly use tend to be irregular. Just think of the verbs “to be” and “ to go”. These verbs are also highly irregular in Spanish. This means that...

When you start learning Spanish, your listening skills will develop more rapidly than your speaking skils. As a result, you understand more than you can express. A good way to keep improving your speaking skills is to talk to yourself as much as possible. With nobody around you, you don’t need to worry to make mistakes or sound funny. I...

Coming soon to Bocas, the Sailing Spanish Classroom, including 4 hours Spanish and a full day aboard a beautiful ocean-going catamaran, including a beginner’s immersion Spanish class. Lunch, snacks, drinks, swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, sailing, fishing are all included on this trip. Numbers are limited. Book now at Spanish by the Sea,  Calle 4 (behind Hotel Bahia) Bocas . Group bookings...

Spanish at Locations Schools in Turrialba, Bocas del Toro, Boquete and Panama City prepare students for official D.E.L.E exams in San José and Panama City. The prices vary around $100 per exam. We will guide you through the inscription process that you will complete directly with the examination centers at the universities. If you want to know which exam level...

The method a school chooses for its students to learn Spanish should be based on its theory about how people learn foreign and second languages. Although learners vary in learning styles (which means: they all use different strategies), we strongly believe that for you to learn Spanish, there are three essential conditions that we need to meet. Students should be:...

It’s possible to speak Spanish in a way that is 100 percent grammatically correct and understandable and yet not be using the words and phrases that a native speaker would use. How can you avoid that? The more you immerse yourself in authentic content on a regular basis and the more you hear the right way of saying things, the...

In this article I would like to point out the conclusions of various investigations that have been done to find out what kind of strategies, techniques and activities help a person to learn efficiently. The general conclusion is that a good learner does not necessarily have a high IQ level, but is active and just knows “how to learn”. Looking...

Define your objectives: Why you want to learn Spanish … Since you are reading this blog it is unlikely anyone needs to tell you why you should learn Spanish.  At some point you felt it necessary to learn Spanish.  Still, you may wish to define the “why” it is important before you seek the right Language Learning Situation (I will...

I will be doing my utmost to inform you about learning Spanish. Why, how, when, where, and with whom you can learn Spanish are just a few questions that I will be addressing. Anyway, ¡bienvenidos!,/ welcome!   Ins Lommers

Some students, especially when they are not learning Spanish in an immersion situation (learning while living in a Spanish speaking environment), lose motivation and enthusiasm. What can they do to become motivated and enthusiastic again? I will list a few ideas to maintain your motivation: 1. Change the language in you email account to Spanish. By doing this you are...