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What Students Say About Intercultura...
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From: George Beckley
To: Susannah Kenley (Intercultura Costa Rica)
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:24 PM
Subject: gracias
Hola Susannah,
¿Como está? Espero que usted tenga un buen semana!
Bueno, quisiera decir "muchas gracias" a usted y a la Intercultura. Tuve una buena experiencia, y disfrute mucho la opportunidad de habla y aprender la idioma española. Espero que yo regrese alla en el año proximo y quisiera decirles a mis amigos sobre su buena escuela.
Hasta luego!
George Beckley
Seattle, WA
From: Lindsay Jones: lindsayfields@hotmail.com
Hola!
Me llamo Lindsay Fields Jones y fui estudiante en Intercultura en 1998. Hasta diez anos, mi espanol es mas o menos. :-) Siempre pienso en Costa Rica y espero que un dia, puedo regresar con mi esposo y mi hijo a visitar mis amigos de diez anos! Voy a escribir en Ingles ahora.
I wanted to send an email to your school as it is a long overdue THANK YOU for what your school has provided me. In 1998, I was still a college student and spent 5 or so months studying at Intercultura living with Felix y Emilia Segura Montero and their 3 daughters, Lorena, Darlene, and Carol. To this day, I am still in touch with them and we even talk to each other using the web camera every now and then!
I see that Intercultura has grown over the years and that you now have another campus! Que Bueno y fantastico!
Also, I am sure they won't remember me, but Marcelo and Vanessa were some of my teachers while I was studying. Marcelo made us listen to songs in Spanish and find the missing words and fill in the blanks on his worksheets. We listened to Ricky Martin and Shakira BEFORE they became huge successes in the US, where I am from. I was so proud to go home and say to my friends, "I listened to Shakira in SPANISH" before she came out with her English hits! Same goes for Ricky Martin.
Also, Vanessa was an incredible dance teacher and I still LOVE to dance salsa and meringue. I work for an International Business School and when we have fiestas, I am always dancing with the Latin Americans! My husband is from the UK and knows how to boogie, but not like those Latin's! Vanessa was great in organizing outings to the clubs so we could practice our dancing skills!
My experience in Costa Rica has remained one of the best and most happy times of my life. I loved every day and think about the great times very often. I celebrated my 21st birthday in Costa Rica, and I will never forget the kind, gentle nature of the Ticos.
So, again, thank you for everything you have provided for me and for all of your students over the years. You are a great school and keep up the great work.
Have a lovely day and maybe one day I will come back and visit with you again.
Adios!
Lindsay
From: John Duvall jtd4603@hotmail.com
To: info@interculturacostarica.com
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: Muchas Gracias
Hello,
I know that to make this email legitimate I should be writing it in Spanish, but I am still traveling and unfortunately do not have the time to spend on such an email. I also do not want to wait any longer to thank you all for an amazing experience in Samara.
For four weeks I lived in Samara and traveled through Costa Rica. Everyone that I met on my trip was incredibly friendly and I left Costa Rica with a great fondness for the country and the people who live there. In fact, I left wishing that I had four more weeks to spend in Costa Rica.
Intercultura is an amazing place with full of amazing people. Nelsy was an excellent professora who made learning spanish fun and manageable. I looked forward to going to class every day and I plan on continuing to learn spanish at the university of Colorado.
Thank you all for such an amazing experience. Perhaps I will see you all again in the near future.
John Duvall
From: Olga.Dobson@bbh.com
To: Centro de Idiomas Intercultura
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 3:22 PM
To all Intercultura staff
I want to say thank you for the bottom of my heart for the wonderful time and teachings you have provided to my kids James and Simona Dobson. They were happy to be in Costa Rica and would love to return. James Dobson would have loved to spend more time there! (I was thinking that a month was way too long but i was wrong!).
James told me he learned more Spanish there in 3 weeks then he would have here in US in one year.
I am very very grateful to all of you for the wonderful experiences you have offered these kids!
Please forward this e-mail to all Intercultura staff and especially to Barbara.
You are the best! Thanks again
Olga Dobson
From: Alice GLEISES liloo_lop@hotmail.com
To: Laura Ellington
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 7:31 AM
Subject: RE: intercultura
Un grand merci à toute l’équipe de Intercultura pour cet accueil si chaleureux !!
J’ai passé 4 mois extraordinaires au sein de votre école, que ce soit à Heredia ou à Samara. Pendant cette période, j’ai pu découvrir en profondeur cette école et son personnel et je dois dire que tout a été parfait. L’organisation est surprenante, les professeurs sont compétents et tous très agréables. J’ai adoré le mélange de cultures et la bonne ambiance dans toutes les langues qui règnent au sein de l’établissement. J’ai également participé aux activités et aux excursions, ce qui m'a permis d’apprendre beaucoup sur la culture latine mais aussi de rencontrer de nouvelles personnes qui sont aujourd’hui des amis dispersés au 4 coins du monde.
Encore une fois pour cette incroyable expérience qui a marqué ma vie, je vous remercie ! Un merci particulier à Laura.
Los extraño mucho !
Pura vida,
Alice Gleises
From: "Jan Sharoff" Jan.Sharoff@Adams12.org
To: "Barbara Miller ICCR" <barbara@interculturacostarica.com>
Subject: Re: Re(2): Teen Spanish
Dear Evelyn, Barbara,Laura and Tyrone,
I want to thank you all for giving my daughter, Julie, a great
experience.
When she and Sarah got off the plane, I asked them on a scale from 1-10
with 10 being the best how would they rate their experience at
Intercultura they both said 10 and wished they could have stayed longer.
Both of them want to return to Costa Rica because of the great experience
they had. They traveled to many interesting places, learned a lot,
practiced their Spanish and had a lot of fun. They both have been
studying
Spanish every day at school for six years and said that this program
helped them a lot because they have never been exposed to native speakers
and needed that experience to improve. Julie also liked the other
students and had a lot of fun with them.
It is such a popular program that an assistant principal from my school
district was studying there at the same time Julie was. But even though
I knew several adults who attended Intercultural, I was worried about my
daughter traveling alone to a foreign country. It turned out to be a
great experience for Julie. She said her host mom was waiting for her with a
big sign and both moms took very good care of her and were better cooks than
me! She loved all of the activities and said they were geared toward
teens. She really liked her teacher and chaperones. Also, your program
saved me money beucase when I was looking at programs the ones that had
chaperones from Denver travelling to Costa Rica with the teens were more
expensive.
When she returned I felt that I picked the best program forJulie.
Thanks again for all of your help and please thank your staff and her
homestay families, as she enjoyed them very much!
Jan Sharoff
Laura, I can't tell you how helpful the Spanish classes I took there have been to me in my work, and now in the ESL classes I'm teaching. I was so frustrated before I came there because I had studied Spanish several times in my life (high school, college, continuing education classes, medical "brush-up" classes), but I could never express myself or hold up my end of a conversation. I was actually terrified when I first arrived at Intercultura; in fact, so terrified that I'm amazed Marcelo was able to put me in the correct level. But Hernán was able to put me at ease very quickly, and the curriculum was so effective, that I was immediately more effective when I returned from just 2 weeks of study at Intercultura, and I've been back to study with you twice since. And there is so much about Costa Rica to love! The last time, I took a real chance and enrolled my husband, who had studied several other languages, but not much Spanish. It was his turn to be terrified, but, once again, I was impressed with how empowering his classes with Ana and Hernán were for him. He subsequently studied at another school while I took the TEFL certification. Even though he learned and enjoyed himself there, he said it couldn't compare with the experience at Intercultura, and he's pushing me to come back to Intercultura this year. What a turn around! My experience learning with your school in the immersion method inspired me to learn to teach English in a similar way, which I'm currently doing with hispanic immigrants here in Asheville, although in the future I might want to do so in a Spanish-speaking country. It's such an effective method, as my husband and I have experienced. Thanks so much for all you and your staff do. Keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Katie Winchell
katie@winchell.us
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