Carioca Connection - Brazilian Portuguese Conversation

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com O Mecanismo é uma das séries da Netflix de maior sucesso no Brasil. Fala sobre a Operação Lava-Jato e muito do que está acontecendo nos dias de hoje no país com toda a questão de corrupção e cenário...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Olá pessoal! In this episode, we are talking about the famous "festa junina." If you don't know what a festa junina is, you are in for a real treat. If you're already familiar with these traditional...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com If you have been learning Portuguese for a while now, you have probably heard of the "jeitinho brasileiro." But, what is it exactly? Is it good? Is it bad? Whatever it is, it can be a little confusi...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Opa, fala aí pessoal! Carioca Connection is back with Season 3! Obviously, we have to start with the World Cup. In this episode, we talk about Brazil's chances in the 2018 World Cup and Foster's lac...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Season 3 of Carioca Connection is here! The World Cup is here! Alexia is in the US! Season 3 of Carioca Connection is going to be the best season yet. First episode will be released later this week....

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Season 2 is coming to an end. We had so much fun recording Season 2 for you guys and we thought that the most appropriate way to finish this season is taking about all of the reasons we love Brazil....

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about their experience taking a ferry from Buenos Aires to Montevideo. Lots of laughing and talking about meat, tango, and much more. As always, chock full of...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In today's episode, we talk about one of our favorite subjects: dogs! If you've been following the show for a while now, you probably already know that we are huge dog lovers. Even if you don't like...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In today's episode, we are talking about sotaques. Accents. Brazil is full of them. Ranging from the chiado of the carioca to the hard R of the paulista, there is a lot going on in terms of accents...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Hey guys. In today's episode, we talk about our experience in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We talk about the rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, and Alexia makes some shocking confessions on air... 20...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com If you have ever been to Brazil before, you probably know that Brazilians run on a different schedule. They go to work later, eat later, and stay out until dawn. It's confusing to know how time work...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Well, it's official. We all kind of already knew it, but according to a recent CNN article, Brazilians are the coolest people in the world. In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about just what ma...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com It's no secret that Brazilians are...let's say more intimate than other cultures? They love to touch, kiss, hug almost anyone and everyone. To some visiting gringos, this can be a weird at experienc...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In the US, most kids leave home to go to university at around 18. In Brazil, it is normal to live with your parents until 30 and beyond. Why is this? The truth is, there are a lot of different reaso...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about the Brazilian national anthem and its importance in Brazilian culture. Alexia gets emotional. A lot of giggling coming from Foster. And of course, tons...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com It's no secret that Brazil is not well-known for world-class service when it comes to restaurants. In this episode, we talk about the differences between service in the US and Brazil, how to get a w...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Easter is just around the corner which means, well, it can mean different things for different people. For Brazilians, it has a lot to do with overpriced chocolate eggs. For Foster, it involves bein...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com The future of TV is changing. Cable TV is still plays a huge role in the US & Brazil, but it is quickly being surpassed by Netflix, Youtube, & the like. In this episode, we talk about TV in...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Yellow fever is on the rise in Rio which is a tragedy in and of itself. On a more personal note, Alexia has been dying of fear about getting the yellow fever vaccine. In this episode, we talk about...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Alexia and I work online. That means we can work from more or less wherever we want. Awesome, right? Well, most of the time. Sometimes it can be lonely and isolating. That's why we have gotten reall...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Last episode, we talked about Vinicius. Today, Alexia talks about one of her favorite poems by O Poetinha: Se você quer ser minha namorada. Followed by a dramatic reading. ------------------- Se voc...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com Foster and Alexia continue the theme of Brazilian music talking about another one of the great Brazilian musicians: Vinicius de Moraes. Colloquially known as O Poetinha, it is hard to overstate his...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com This is part II of a fascinating conversation with Renato from Learn Brazilian Guitar. If you have listened to Carioca Connection for a while, then you know how much we love Brazilian music. That is...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com If you have listened to Carioca Connection for a while, then you know how much we love Brazilian music. That is why we are so excited to have today's special guest, Renato from www.learningbrazilian...

Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode, Foster is in the hot seat. Alexia is asking him questions about his experience with learning Portuguese and how to learn any language more efficiently. Hopefully, to Foster's embarr...