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 In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia continues the discussion about the Netflix series on Ayrton Senna with her father Marco Antonio as a special guest. They delve into the fascinating riva...

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 of Carioca Connection, Alexia brings a special guest - her father Marco Antonio - to discuss the Netflix series "Senna," which offers viewers an excellent opportunity to learn 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 of Carioca Connection, hosts Alexia and Foster take listeners on an intimate exploration of "Ainda Estou Aqui" (I'm Still Here), the groundbreaking Brazilian film that's making waves...

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 of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster dive into the art of hosting and welcoming guests into your home, sharing their personal experiences and insights from their first time hosti...

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 of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster share their experience at a meditation retreat at the Art of Living Center in Boone, North Carolina. Alexia discusses her first immersive med...

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 of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster continue their conversation about 2025, reflecting on personal rituals, new traditions, and ways to create a more fulfilling year. From long...

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 of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster discuss setting meaningful goals for the new year. They emphasize prioritizing personal passions over traditional resolutions, sharing Alexi...

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 wrap up their 2024 retrospective, diving into the most meaningful relationships, experiences, and lessons that shaped their year. From building a sense of communit...

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 A Year in Review: 2024 Reflections and Insights In this episode, Alexia and Foster dive into a reflective conversation about 2024. From personal growth to unexpected surprises, they share stories, l...

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 New Year's Resolutions, goal setting, and some of the cultural differences related to the topic. As always, Foster's Portuguese is suffering and some hu...

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 We are back talking about favorite words in Portuguese. This was one of the subjects from our last Live Class from Carioca Connection Club and we wanted to share a little bit more of Alexia's favori...

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 It's that time of the year again and we're here to talk about Christmas. In this episode, Alexia and her dad Marco talk about the meaning of Christmas for Brazilians and some of the differences betw...

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 Olympics are right around the corner. Most people think it will be a disaster. We think it is worth talking about the World Cup and how Brazil has handled major events in the past. Hear our take...

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 final part of our series on Brazilian Music, Pablo, Alexia and Foster talk about the Brazilian Soul and the future of Brazilian music. It is full of great vocabulary and insight.  Grab the fr...

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 part two of a three-part series on Brazilian music, we cover a lot. We talk about instruments, genres, where to see music in Rio, bad jokes about Zika and much more. Most importantly, we talk abo...

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 Brazilian music is essential to what it means to be Brazilian.  Brazilians move, they dance, they sing. It's a part of who they are. If you want to understand Brazilians and Brazilian Portuguese: yo...

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 final episode of Carioca Connection's 9th season , Alexia and Foster reflect on 8 years of creating a Portuguese language learning podcast. They discuss the 3 key themes that have sustained t...

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 Celebrate 8 years of Carioca Connection with Alexia and Foster in this anniversary episode! 🎉 From their early days as podcast beginners to becoming experienced language educators, they share hones...

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 of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster talk wrap up their mini-series about the differences between traveling and taking a vacation. They reflect on their busy year, full of fligh...

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 of Carioca Connection , Alexia & Foster wrap up their mini-series mental health using real-life Brazilian Portuguese. They discuss their personal experiences and share valuable i...

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 of Carioca Connection , Alexia & Foster dive deeper into their conversation about mental health.  They explore essential vocabulary and expressions in Brazilian Portuguese to hel...

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 of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster discuss the personal and universal experience of anxiety. They share insights on managing anxiety, the importance of mental health, and how...

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 of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster dive into the distinction between vacations and travel. Alexia explains her perspective on what constitutes a true vacation, emphasizing the...