A Central American vacation wasn’t a trip I had planned out, but apparently it had been planned for me long ago without my knowing. I’ve told this story numerous times in the past, so I won’t bother to bore, but it’s just funny how things work. I can’t even count the hours spent planning to see hill tribes in Chiang Mai, Thailand before my partner and I had re-routed our trip into San Jose, Costa Rica. It was a complete 180 in terms of what we had set our hearts on experiencing. I recently shared the condensed version with a nice chap who had the time to listen or waste and saw a woman a few days later bumping around the town in a shirt that had today’s nugget of travel wisdom. Shall we?
Today’s word is a Spanish word from Costa Rica:
pura vida – pure life, good life, good living
Amerispan, Cactus Language and IMAC are all good starting points to learning abroad. A free membership at Spanish Unlimited gives you the opportunity to learn a new word everyday by email, gain pen pals and hear audio of the words. Their website is actually a good resource tool for many different Spanish related topics. I won’t even begin to list some of the texts out there that could further your studies because there are entirely too many. If you know of some language books that would be useful please feel free to list them.