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Originally Posted by manaboutown
BTW, Costa Rican Spanish is different..
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When my wife and I were in Costa Rica, a guide on a birding trip suggested we might want to spend a couple of weeks doing an immersion learning of Spanish. He said that it was also best to do that in Costa Rica as, "We don't have an accent!" It cracked me up that he said that so seriously. Everybody who speaks a widely used language has an accent of
some kind!
One other advantage of Spanish is that you can actually use it locally, especially if you like Mexican or Cuban food and go to authentic restaurants run by people from those countries. I don't know how often you'd get to practice French at any restaurants around TV. But then, my own taste in food tends to run more towards Mexican than French, so I could easily be wrong!