2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection 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 why we are so excited to have today's special guest, Renato from www.learningbrazilianguitar.com/. Renato is a maestro when it comes to Brazilian music and is an amazing musician himself. In thi...
Mar 15, 2018•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection 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.learningbrazilianguitar.com/. Renato is a maestro when it comes to Brazilian music and is an amazing musician himself. In this episode, we talk about Renato's history with Brazilian music, some of the most famous...
Mar 14, 2018•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection 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 embarrassment, this episode will help you learn Portuguese faster and avoid some common mistakes. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cario...
Mar 08, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection If you are anything like us, you spend a lot of time on your phone. In today's episode, we talk about our relationship with technology and how it is affecting our mental health. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian cultu...
Mar 07, 2018•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode, Alexia and Foster explore the wonderful city of Teresópolis, a tiny town tucked into the mountains of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Teresópolis is full of natural wonders like national parks, waterfalls, and a unique culture. If you're lucky, you might even see a sloth. Have a listen and learn real Brazilian Portuguese. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join ...
Mar 06, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection If you are interested in Brazil, you've probably heard of feijoada. If so, you know you are in for a treat. If you've never heard of feijoada, you can't leave Brazil without trying this classic dish that will put you into a food coma for days. 🥘 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently...
Mar 05, 2018•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the most beautiful places in Brazil. You could say, well, it is super bonito ☀️ In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about the wonders of Bonito as well as some life or death situations that Alexia faced on her trip there, namely being almost killed by wild pigs 🐷 Have a listen, learn some real Brazilian Portuguese. 2023 is the year to improve your P...
Mar 02, 2018•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection If you have listened to Carioca Connection for a while, you know how much we love and appreciate Brazilian music. And no conversation about Brazilian music is complete without talking about Caetano Veloso. So without further ado, everything you need to know to get you started with this amazing Brazilian artist. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connect...
Mar 01, 2018•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection We all know the game would you rather, right? Well, this time we try our luck in Portuguese. Which means Foster suffers trying to make snap judgements on air. Hilarity ensues. Have a listen and learn some real Brazilian Portuguese. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand re...
Feb 28, 2018•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Last episode, we talked about the complicated security situation in Rio de Janeiro nowadays. Now, the federal military has entered Rio. We talk about what is going on and what you need to know if you are traveling to Brazil. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life...
Feb 27, 2018•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Neste episódio, Alexia e Foster fala sobre nossa cidade favorita: Rio de Janeiro. Mas, o Rio está complicado hoje em dia. Damos uma olhada na situação complicado no Rio de Janeiro hoje em dia. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into ...
Feb 26, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode, Alexia reads one of her favorite poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, A Bruxa. It's beautiful, entertaining, and educational. Enjoy. ------------------------- A Bruxa Nesta cidade do Rio De dois milhões de habitantes Estou sozinho no quarto Estou sozinho na América. Estarei mesmo sozinho? Ainda há pouco um ruído Anunciou vida a meu lado. Certo não é vida humana, Mas é vida....
Feb 23, 2018•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about books. Yep, back to the basics. In a world of tweets, snaps, and stories, we think it is worthwhile to talk about some of the great Brazilian works of literature. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and...
Feb 22, 2018•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In the last few episodes, we've been talking about Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, and the surrounding areas. Today, we finish of the series talking about Trindade, one of our favorite (or at least Foster's favorite) vacation spots. Learn real Portuguese through natural conversation with Carioca Connection. New episodes every week. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Ca...
Feb 16, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In the last episode, we talked about the historical center of Paraty. In this episode, we disconnect to one of the most secluded beaches in Brazil - Praia do Sono. If you haven't heard about it, it's more than worth checking out. As always, the episode is full of real Brazilian Portuguese. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cari...
Feb 14, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Neste episódio, Alexia e Foster falam sobre uma das suas cidades prediletas do Brasil: Paraty. If you're taking a trip to Brazil, it's a must visit. Learn more about this wonderful historic city in today's episode. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portugues...
Feb 12, 2018•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode, Alexia & Foster talk about how to introduce yourself in Portuguese, have small talk, chit-chat, whatever you want to call it. This episode is all about the little things you need to know how to say but you will never learn in the books. Bora? 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to ...
Feb 08, 2018•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection 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 humor ensues. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Feb 05, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Alexia e Foster conversam sobre o futuro do trabalho. Are we all going to be Uber drivers and dog sitting? Or is the 9-5 here to stay? 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://carioc...
Feb 02, 2018•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection When foreigners think of Brazil, their minds invariably drift towards images of Carnaval. Love it or hate it, you have to know what's going on with Carnaval. Alexia and Foster try to elucidate and entertain. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and ...
Jan 31, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Lula foi condenado. É muito complicado. Alexia e Foster tentam explicar um pouco sobre a realidade complexa da situação política do Brasil. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://c...
Jan 30, 2018•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Olá pessoal! In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about some of the benefits of difficulties of living a less material life. (e.g. Alexia's journey to stop hoarding). This episode comes to you live from a lovely park in Viña del Mar in Chile. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently,...
Jan 29, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In the first season of Season 2, Alexia & Foster talk about their experience so far in Chile, the trials and tribulations of being multilingual, and the importance of cultural identity. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Bra...
Jan 22, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Estamos de volta e não podemos estar mais felizes! Full episodes coming January 22nd. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Jan 18, 2018•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection This is Part I of a conversation with Alexia's dad about religion in Brazil and how it affects the life of Brazilians. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Jan 28, 2017•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection This is Part II of a conversation with Alexia's dad about religion in Brazil and how it affects the life of Brazilians. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Jan 27, 2017•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Learn how to talk about it, what to eat, and much more in today's episode. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection...
Jan 25, 2017•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Understanding Brazil is not for the faint of heart. The modern history of the country reads like a political thriller. In order to understand the situation a little better, we called in for help: Alexia's Dad. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, an...
Dec 29, 2016•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Understanding Brazil is not for the faint of heart. The modern history of the country reads like a political thriller. In order to understand the situation a little better, we called in for help: Alexia's Dad. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, an...
Dec 19, 2016•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Understanding Brazil is not for the faint of heart. The modern history of the country reads like a political thriller. In order to understand the situation a little better, we called in for help: Alexia's Dad. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, an...
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