Founded in 1991, CPI has extensive experience teaching languages.  Currently with 3 fully equipped campuses in Costa Rica: San Joaquín de Flores, Monteverde, and Flamingo Beach, our foreign students have ample opportunity to enjoy the amazing natural beauty of the areas surrounding our campus locations and local students enrolled in our foreign language programs have access to our quality linguistic programs, enabling professional upward mobility in both tourist and transnational companies located near our campus sites.

Our school campuses were custom built with the goal of establishing an excellent learning ambience - a relaxed, enjoyable, encouraging yet effective educational environment.  Each CPI professor is trained on-site, taught to utilize a variety of didactic and modern technological resources to attend to varied ability levels and styles of learning.  Acknowledging that language and cultural are intrinsically linked, CPI formally incorporates the cultural aspects of language in class creating a comprehensive linguistic experience.  Additional out of the classroom activities, dance classes teaching the most popular Latin steps to our Spanish as a second language students or a cooking class preparing a Brazilian dish for our Portuguese as a foreign language students are common hands on activities.

The CPI Spanish as a second language program, our core business, is based on a methodology created and customized within our very own CPI and emphasizes a comprehensive immersion experience. Complemented by support services, such as: airport pick up, accommodations either with a screened host family or student residency, volunteerships, touristic excursions, and inter-campus transportation – our goal is customer service and providing the safest and most pleasant experience possible for our students during their time in Costa Rica.

The second language model we provide, our foreign language program, is organized around a similar concept of small class size, personalized attention, use of modern didactic materials to facilitate language acquisition, coupled by a comfortable learning environment with ample garden areas and a library/resource center in a modern building designed exclusively for language classes.

While Costa Rica is a solid option, through CPI Franchising you also have the opportunity to establish your network beyond Costa Rica. 

The CPI Spanish program is internationally accredited through the Instituto Cervantes of Spain and CPI is the Spanish immersion provider of choice for numerous North American universities, permitting students to receive Spanish transfer credits after completing their CPI program. CPI is also represented by various foreign sales agencies which believe in and sell our programs without hesitation to their European, U.S. and Canadian clientele. The CPI reputation is solidly engrained as being one of the best quality Spanish immersion programs in Latin America, providing all clients with a superior experience.

CPI’s administrative experience expands 3 schools (CPI Heredia, CPI Monteverde and CPI Flamingo) with each campus functioning under the same high standard of quality, methodology, and organizational procedures. Successful replication and maintenance of our school system provides us the experience to implement the same organizational schemata required by the franchise model. 

Our Operations Manager works in coordination with our Academic Director and Academic Coordinators in project development and to ensure that the same quality standards correlated to the CPI name are consistently maintained.

Investment in a CPI franchise means access to our organizational system and assurance that your introduction into the language market is fast tracked through your integration into our already established network.

The economic benefits of a CPI franchise are solid; the majority of our clientele are from outside of Costa Rica with the capacity to invest learning other languages either for pleasure, tourism or work. In addition to our organizational structure, our long established professional networks are also available to our franchise partners, providing access to an ample international market. At a local level, in the case of the foreign language program, CPI is recognized as a language school with a solid reputation and dedication to customer service.

We invite you to be part of our professional family by formally integrating into our school network. Doing so affords you the opportunity to expand your knowledge base and actively participate in promoting a globalized world by linking cultures through language acquisition.