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 dive into another TV series, "The Diplomat."  Carioca Connection is turning 10 years old! 🥳 To celebrate, we're opening a few private coachi...

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 Welcome to a special Valentine's Day edition of Carioca Connection! 🇧🇷  After several technical hiccups, Alexia & Foster manage to record an episode about Valentine’s Day in Brazil and the art o...

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 talk about one of their favorite TV shows of all time — Ted Lasso. Whether you are a fan of the show or not, you will get some tips 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 In the final episode of the mini-series "Cooking with Carioca Connection," Alexia and Foster dive deep into the most useful vocabulary. If you plan to travel to Brazil, if you like cooking, or if 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 this episode of Cooking with Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster continue their discussion on kitchen vocabulary and the joys of cooking. They share their personal experiences and talk about th...

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 are excited to share a new mini-series, "Cooking with Carioca Connection!" A member of the Carioca Connection Club suggested an episode of co...

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 discuss the difficulties of dealing with procrastination, especially in regard to distractions and decision-making paralysis.  They share their personal experience...

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 Welcome back to another episode of Carioca Connection!  In this episode, Alexia and Foster continue their discussion about procrastination, exploring the reasons behind it and sharing personal stori...

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 Welcome to another episode of Carioca Connection! In this episode, Alexia and Foster dive into the world of procrastination, discussing how fear of failure and perfectionism often lead us to put off...

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 importance of sleep, and more importantly, how to talk about all things sleep-related in Brazilian Portuguese. Don't sleep on...

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 dreams and sleep. Alexia shares a hilariously vivid dream, in which she helps a very famous British man find his hotel. They also...

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 ask the robots to provide some of the best, most authentic slang from Rio de Janeiro. To our surprise, we learned a lot of useful Brazilian P...

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 topic of artificial intelligence (AI).  We explore both the positive and negative aspects of AI and how it can benefit us in our...

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's episode is the first installment of a series exploring the beauty of Brazilian Portuguese. We start with the new book, Latím em Pó, where linguist & translator Caetano Galindo takes a de...

Fan favorite Marco Antonio (Alexia's dad) returns to the show to give us a primer on one of the most influential authors in the Portuguese language — Fernando Pessoa. 

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 week’s episode, Alexia and Foster talk about one of the most amazing Brazilian Portuguese shows they have seen in a long time.  Listen & improve your Portuguese with the talented Brazili...

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 many different pronunciations of the letter X in Brazilian Portuguese. This is one of the most difficult sounds for Portuguese learners, so understa...

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, Foster rants about his misgivings about living in a big city while Alexia politely corrects his Portuguese.  Carioca Connection is turning 10 years old! 🥳 To celebrate, we're op...

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 Foster are recording live from one of their favorite parks in Portugal and giving some tips about how to improve your Brazilian Portuguese no matter where you are.  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 Alexia puts Foster’s Portuguese to the test with a rapid-fire quiz. Learn about the most important Brazilian Portuguese abbreviations that you need to know in 2023 and have some fun at the same time...

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 Foster just finished the second season of Love is Blind Brazil. Without giving any spoilers, they talk about some of the benefits of watching Brazilian reality shows to improve your Portu...

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, we talk about Foster’s allergic reaction, allergies in general, and how to prepare for a visit to the doctor in Brazilian Portuguese.  2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! 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 2023 is the year that Alexia is going to get in good physical shape. We talk about Alexia’s experience going to the gym and the essential fitness vocabulary to sound Brazilian. 2023 is the year to 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, Alexia and Foster talk about New Year’s Resolutions and how to set goals in Brazilian Portuguese.   Carioca Connection is turning 10 years old! 🥳 To celebrate, we're opening a few...

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 first episode of Season 8, we ring in the New Year by talking about some bizarre Brazilian traditions and superstitions.  Carioca Connection is turning 10 years old! 🥳 To celebrate, we're op...