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People in Guanacaste take immense national pride in their diverse culture and high standard of living and education. To get an up close and personal look at Guanacaste’s culture, take a walk though the markets or the central park in any town, where you will find a majority of Ticos up and about their business. You can learn Spanish with Intensive Language Schools as learning Spanish provides you with an ideal alternative to understanding these wonderful people better.
Tamarindo, which acts as the tourist hub of the province, has a few places where one can learn to speak Spanish. You can also find language schools in Nicoya, Playa Flamingo and Samara. Offering good value for money, these schools are set amid pristine locations and let you enjoy yourself as you learn the language. Home stays are also on hand here, where you can stay with a Tico family and practice what you learn.
Being able to speak Spanish will also help a lot in understanding and learning the culture of Guanacaste better. Most music and the most representative folklore comes from the north of the country (the part that once had heavy Mayan influence), including the Nicoya Peninsula and the Atlantic coast (Afro-Caribbean culture), but most of the lyrics are in Spanish. Costa Rican music includes a rhythm known as tambito as well a distinctive musical genre known as punto. An examples is the punto guanacasteco, which hails from Guanacaste Province.
Though the music of Costa Rica has achieved little international credit, Costa Rican popular music genres include: an indigenous calypso scene which is distinct from the more widely-known Trinidadian calypso sound audience that supports nightclubs. American and British rock and roll and pop are popular and common among the youth (especially urban youth) while dance-oriented genres like soca, salsa, merengue, cumbia and Tex-Mex have an appeal among the somewhat older audience.
Nowadays, funk music is very popular. The Costa Rican funk movement started around the 70's - 80's and bands today enjoy some popularity, especially among young people. Bands such as Gandhi and Evolucion (among others) are quite popular. This movement started in the early 80's with the pioneer work of the band Café con Leche and José Capmany.
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