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 Cafuné. Abraço. Carinho. Beijo. Chamego. Amor.   For the final episode of Season 7, we are looking into 6 words that explain a lot about Brazil and Brazilian culture. If you want to sound, speak, an...

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 the new Netflix series "The Greatest Robbery of Brazil's Central Bank." More specifically, we teach you our methods for learning vocabulary most effectively when watch...

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 Do you know how to say the title of this episode in the correct way in Portuguese? Today with this episode you will finally learn. Don't worry, we know that the difference between TEMPO and HORA 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 Today we bring to the table the difference between TEMPO and HORA in Portuguese. It can be very confusing so it's good to have an episode explaining this. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese...

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 provides a quick analysis of the song Oração Ao Tempo from Caetano Veloso.   This beautiful song holds a special place in Alexia’s heart, so she wanted to share it with you a...

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 There are many uses of the word "time" in Portuguese. Today we continue our conversation about Alexia's favorite word and how you can make the most with your vocabulary.  2023 is the year to improve...

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 If you listened to the previous episode, you already have a pretty good idea of what stage fright is. Well, we’re podcasters so we have to deal with it every single day. In this episode we share som...

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 all had to speak in front of a relatively big audience at some point of our lives, and that can be terrifying. That's exactly what we’ll talk about in this episode. 2023 is the year to improve 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 Alexia is visiting the U.S. to meet her nephew, so we're bringing another episode with more family vocabulary. Don't panic just yet... As Alexia says, if you don't remember who that family member 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 and just Foster became tios ! And as you probably guessed, there is a lot of family vocabulary involved.  Sobrinho, primo, cunhada, madrasta... You should just press play and enjoy!  2023 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 Adeus, ano velho Feliz ano novo Que tudo se realize No ano que vai nascer Muito dinheiro no bolso Saúde pra dar e vender Para os solteiros, sorte no amor Nenhuma esperança perdida Para os casados, n...

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 Do you know the difference between "pintura" e "pintora"? Alexia is getting into painting and, in this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about art, vocabulary and the importance of having a hobby. 202...

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 Thanksgiving was last week and this time of the year normally gets us thinking about gratitude. In this episode, Alexia reflects on gratitude and shares some of the things she is grateful for in her...

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, Marco Antonio and Alexia talk about thanksgiving, or friendsgiving outside of the U.S., and the importance of this date for them. In Brazil, we normally don't celebrate Ação de Graç...

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 month we experienced a Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp blackout, and the consequences were varied. Some people took the opportunity to disconnect and do something different, while others were...

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 month we experienced a Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp blackout, and the consequences were varied. Some people took the opportunity to disconnect and do something different, while others were...

For the past year, we've been working on a completely new program — the Carioca Connection Club , your one-stop shop to improve your Brazilian Portuguese. How does it work, you ask? It's actually quite simple. We did all the heavy lifting so you can put your Portuguese on autopilot with unlimited content, members-only material, and a community of Brazilian enthusiasts.

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 For the past year, we've been working on a completely new program — the Carioca Connection Club , and this episode is all about it. We've curated more than 5 years of work into your one-stop shop fo...

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 episode is a little bit different from what we normally do. Today's episode is a repetition audio from our Fundamentals course. Listen and repeat. Practice makes perfect.  It may seem a bit bor...

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 On this episode of “The Fundamentals” Alexia and Foster talk about the things you need to know regarding accommodations in Portuguese. The Fundamentals is a 4-week course covering the foundations 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 this episode of Adventures with Alexia, Alexia talks to Adriana. An old friend of Alexia’s, Adriana knows a thing or two about living in different cultures. Growing up between Brazil and the U.S....

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 On this episode of Adventures with Alexia — a collection of captivating conversations with Brazilians traveling the world we offer at Carioca Connection Club, Alexia talks to Nuno. Nuno currently li...

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 is working on a new project, one of the big ones. She's talking to Brazilians living outside of Brazil who have a lot of stories to tell. From Gasglow to Singapore, be ready to immerse on how...