Welcome To Spanish Pura Vida
Spanish Online Experience
Learn Spanish in Costa Rica.
Take fun and relaxed classes by highly experienced native speakers. Learn the conversational skills you need to begin speaking with locals immediately.
Live with a Costa Rican Family
Speak the language, live the culture, become part of the community. Immerse yourself in the Costa Rican Culture and community by living with a Local Costa Rican homestay family.
Volunteer in Costa Rica
Make an impact on a Costa Rican Volunteer project. Experience what it’s like to live and work in Costa Rica. We can use your help in benefit of the community.
ONLINE COURSES
Our immersion classes follow a very comfortable and cultural approach due to our limit of eight students per class. Nevertheless, we make sure to stay focused during our classes in order to get you speaking Spanish as soon as possible.
OUR SCHOOL
Spanish Pura Vida Online is located in Costa Rica with native Costa Rican teachers. We are located only 20 minutes away from San Jose Airport. Provide students with an urban cultural experience.
OUR TEACHERS
Our teachers are Native from Costa Rica, ready to provide you with the greatest experience and the most dinamic class. We are here for you and to make your class interactive and fun for you to learn.

Our Mission
Our mission is to teach, to immerse and to inspire a life-changing experience for our students through classroom activities and cross cultural immersion by combining the power of conversation with formal grammatical instruction. This combination has proven to be the most effective and exciting teaching method.
Years Of Experience
Graduates of Spanish
Learning tours
Happy Clients
Students Testimony
This school is the best I know to learn spanish, I've learned a lot since I got to Costa Rica, we never stop learing, so far so good.

Joe Lapenna
US Marine
Our experience at the homestay has been wonderful. Our host have welcome us into their home graciously. The meals are nutritious and so delicious. We are very comfortable in our home and we look forward to having dinners with Marielos and Carlos. Thank you, Randy and Spanish Pura Vida.

Eliane Coutu
Student
Our homestay could not be better, they are wonderful liable in a beautiful home, and we enjoy the company their dogs "very affectionate". Food wonderful thank you Carlos, MarĂa and Spanish Pura Vida.

Aidan
Student
Learn Spanish Online in just a couple of months
About Spanish Pura Vida
Spanish Pura Vida is located in the city of Alajuela, the heart of Costa Rica’s Central Valley. Only twenty minutes from the San José airport, the city provides students with an urban cultural experience as well as with the perfect jumping spot to stunning natural beauty.
Are you ready to learn Spanish?
Do you need to improve your grades?
Do you need to learn Spanish for your work?
Are you learning Spanish for upcoming travel?
Contact Us and we will get you started!
NEWS AND EVENTS
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