How to Speak Spanish Like a Costa Rican - Free Spanish Lesson

Try jumpspeak, your AI Spanish tutor for free: Get 3-min Spanish lessons to your Messenger: Costa Rica is a beautiful country. It is a small country. And for this reason, it also has their own Costa Rican Spanish, also known as tico. There are also a lot of big hearts, big smiles, and of course, a big pile of slang terms. El Brete | el breh-tā Brete is a Costa Rican word for trabajar or work that is used a lot. And though the word isn’t inherently negative, you don’t frequently hear people say it with positive emotional inflection. Question: “Que mae, a donde vas? (Hey, man. Where you headed?) Answer: “Me voy al brete.” (I’m going to work.) Brete es brete … Work is work. Naco o Naca | nä-kō Directly translated, naco means plug chewing tobacco … like the black, braided hunks of tobacco cowboys and baseball players used to chew on in the old days. But this usage has nothing to do with chew