If you spend any amount of time in Costa Rica you will quickly find out that a majority of your communication happens over Whatsapp.

Because of this you’re going to be texting quite a bit. And like any good expat, you have to make the effort to speak Spanish, even over texts.

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Here’s the trick to becoming an expert Spanish texter.

Your regular ‘Gringo’ keyboard looks like this:

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But, with a touch of a button…(That little symbol that looks like the world)

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You now have the ‘Tico’ texting keyboard!!!

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How easy was that! And the amazing thing is that it will even autocorrect your horrible Spanish spelling!

That’s something to celebrate.

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