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 and Foster explore the popular American sitcom 'The Office'. Alexia watches it for the first time, while Foster revisits the series, discovering missed...

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 their upcoming travels, particularly Alexia's trip to Cyprus. They compare Brazilian and European Portuguese, offering insights for...

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 Kamilla Cardoso's journey from Brazil to the University of South Carolina basketball team. They talk about her success in the nationa...

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 , Foster and Alexia discuss various topics, from the importance of month-end to the Tim Bernardes show. They discuss the experience of watching the show, the im...

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 special episode of Carioca Connection , Alexia and is joined by her father, Marco Antônio! Alexia and Marco discuss their irrational and rational fears. They talk about fear as an inexplicab...

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 meaning of eight phrases that only Brazilians understand. The phrases include expressions such as "the door slept open" (forgett...

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 What's your guilty pleasure? Join Alexia and Foster in this episode of Carioca Connection , as they reveal their own vices over laughs and honest conversation. In this insightful yet entertaining ep...

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 the mishaps and unique cultural insights from Alexia's first experience in an American hospital.  In their engaging and conversational...

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 After an extended break, Carioca Connection, is back for 2024 with Season 9! In the first episode of Season 9, Alexia and Foster dive into the story of their unexpected adventures and misadventures...

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 One of our favorite classic episodes of Carioca Connection. Originally recorded and published in 2016, this episode shows how much the world has changed since we started the podcast. Brazilians are...

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 season 8 of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster talk about their recent experience getting sick with covid, the guilt of not working, and some future plans.  As always, tu...

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 teaches Foster the history and how to use another popular Brazilian Portuguese expression! This episode is all about the expression “ Quinto dos Infern...

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 about the popular Brazilian expression, “Pão Duro.” They discuss the importance of Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation with this tricky...

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 Today is Brazilian Independence Day! Feliz dia da Independência do Brasil! 🇧🇷 In today’s episode of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster talk about the origins and history of Brazilian Independenc...

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 about the popular Brazilian Portuguese expression - "Fazer vaquinha" 🐄 This is another installment of a series of episodes about popul...

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 about the popular Brazilian Portuguese expression - "Maria vai com as outras." This is the first installment of a series of episodes 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 In this episode of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster talk about the curious origin story of one of Brazil's most delicious snacks - "pastel de feira." Whether or not you have tried Brazil's "pa...

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, we continue our conversation about how to stay healthy while working remotely. Alexia shares some of her best tips for setting limits and finding a healthy wor...

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 revisit a popular theme on the show — remote work. Carioca Connection is turning 10 years old! 🥳 To celebrate, we're opening a few private c...

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 about the concept of “Beginner’s Mind” and how you can apply this technique to improve your Brazilian Portuguese.  Carioca Connection 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 In this episode of Carioca Connection , Foster attends a meditation workshop in Portugal. He describes his experience participating in a meditation retreat in Portuguese. Alexia gives her perspectiv...

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 one of the most useful verbs (in Brazilian Portuguese. The verb ficar. They discuss the many different ways you can use ficar and...

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 play a game where they discuss whether things are overrated, underrated, or appropriate. They cover topics like cheeseburgers, Paris, bacon,...

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 explore some interesting idioms of Brazilian Portuguese.  They discuss the English words "overrated" and "underrated" and their Brazilian Por...

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 as they dive into the captivating series "Daisy Jones and the Six."  Experience the musical journey of a generation filled with rock 'n' roll, drugs, and wild s...