Contact Page - Spanish Immersion Summer Camp, Costa Rica

Edu-Culture International (ECI):
Based in Berkeley, California, Edu-Culture International works in conjunction with AGI, a non-profit educational travel organization. With additional offices in Europe & Costa Rica, we are dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding between young people throughout the world.

ECI’s staff and volunteers are highly trained professionals with a background in education who have successfully organized educational travel programs in Spain, France, Costa Rica & the US since 1998.

We specialize in summer Spanish language immersion programs for middle and high school students, and offer exciting summer study trips based in Costa Rica. Our two fantastic study programs provide unique opportunities for teens to learn Spanish in Costa Rica with the choice of staying with host families or in a small safe dormitory. 

The CPI program limits group size to 30 students and the Grecia program limits group size to 26. Both include three full-time adults: one trip leader and two additional chaperones. This is an ideal size in terms of student bonding, personal attention, organization, and safety – always our number one priority.

Our chaperones are selected on the basis of language ability, maturity, patience, judgment, enthusiasm, personal integrity, and their ability to earn the respect and trust of our teenage participants. Most of them are Spanish teachers who have traveled abroad extensively, and all are committed to promoting intercultural understanding between young people throughout the world.

Join Edu-Culture International (ECI) for the experience of lifetime! Travel with us to Costa Rica this summer, take intensive language classes, live with a host family or in a dorm and make new friends that will last a lifetime!


Programs / Courses:
We have two fantastic programs from which to choose:

1. Students can participate in a 2-week Spanish language experience program designed for middle school students and high school freshmen in based in Grecia, a small, safe family-centered community in central Costa Rica. Students are divided by abilities, and class size is limited to only three! Accommodation is with the chaperones in a comfortable, small dormitory near the school.

2. High school students can choose a 3-week program with host family immersion, small group classes, and travel throughout Costa Rica with our CPI Costa Rica Study Program.

All Spanish classes are taught by native Spanish speakers who are experienced and talented adults with degrees in teaching Spanish to foreign students. Classes take place in the afternoons, and mornings are filled with excursions, sports and cultural activities, as well as lots of opportunities to interact with Costa Rican youth. Students take a placement test before leaving the U.S. and are put into appropriate class levels. CPI students have the option to earn 3 semester units of university credit in Spanish, a great way to build a future college application!