Ipai Language School Costa Rica

Small but historic city, (25 minute bus ride) 11 km north of San Jose (40 minute bus ride to the airport), with easy acces to zoos, museums, gymnasiums, discoteques, swimming pools, restaurants, shops, and much more
The coffee growing capital of Costa Rica, surrounded by green mountains of coffe plantations
Near Poas and Barva volcanos
Herdia combines the tranquility of Costa Rica and the
speed/rush of a modern city in which you can still find lots of people lazily sitting at the park benches eager to please a tourist
This city, near the capital without acctually being in San Jose, consist of about 75,000 mostly upper middle class people
Heredia is right in the middle of Costa Rica with a climate between 80º f to 70º f all year round
It has connections to anywhere in the country
On Sunday mornings and Thursday nights local bands perform, for free, in the central park
It hosts the National University, from which IPAI is three blocks away

Jaco

Pacific party town with about 3.5 km. beach
Close to Manuel Antonio and Carara National Parks
First developed beach town in Costa Rica which still boast lots of wild areas, paths to hike and see monkeys or toucans and upscale places with super views of the beach and magnificent sunsets
It has lots of internet cafés
It posseses a huge infraestructure of hotels, restaurants, souvenir and surf shops, etc
It has many travel agencies and tour conections
There are two other smaller beach towns (Herradura and Hermosa) in about 25-minute bike rides
It is located close to mountain canopy tour areas, waterfalls and view points.

IPAI's Spanish Course works to make Spanish as easy as possible for you to grasp the language and immediately begin using what you've learned in real life situations. We use an oral placement examination to assess you level of proficiency and place you with students of your same level. Our staff is bilingual, well prepared, experienced, and very patient. Apart from your class hours, you will have opportunities to go on short excursions to local bars, discothèques, movies, other nearby towns or beaches, short hike to the mountains, and some of the other numerous destinations Costa Rica offers