2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection In the last episode, Alexia read a short piece of the book O Jeitinho Americano. The text is full of new vocabulary, difficult expressions, and unusual cultural references. In this episode, Foster asks Alexia to clarify some things and they take a look at how much you can learn just from a small piece of authentic material. Aperta play! 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in t...
Jan 07, 2019•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia reads an excerpt from Matthew Shirts' book, O Jeitinho Americano. It's a great read with tons of new vocabulary. Aperta play! 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? Jo...
Jan 04, 2019•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode of Carioca Connection Alexia and Foster talk about their experience in Spain, as well as how to talk about travel more generally. As always, this episode is full of real Brazilian Portuguese. Aperta play! 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,...
Dec 27, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Coming to you live from the Lisbon airport! Alexia is returning home to Rio de Janeiro, so Foster checks in with her to see how she is feels about returning 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 Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join u...
Dec 24, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about their experience living on a farm in Portugal with 10 dogs. You'll hear a lot of funny stories, think that Alexia and Foster are crazy people, and of course, learn tons of real Portuguese. Aperta play! 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, under...
Dec 21, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection We are back in action with the last 10 episodes of Season 3 of Carioca Connection. We are kicking off the end of this season with a series of stories about our trials and tribulations dog sitting around the world for the past year. It doesn't matter if you are a dog lover, a traveler, or just want to learn some cool Portuguese, you are sure to love these episodes. Aperta play! 2023 is the year to i...
Dec 05, 2018•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Something so simple, yet so complicated: the Brazilian supermarket. After four years of living and visiting Brazil, Foster still struggles in the supermarket. In this episode, Alexia comes to the rescue. Aperta play! 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...
Nov 23, 2018•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection If you have heard of Brazil, you know who Gisele is. But, you probably don't know the real story. In today's episode, we discuss one of the most important international figures in 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 Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian cul...
Nov 19, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode of Carioca Connection we are talking about one of the greats. Perhaps the greatest. Without further ado, Elis Regina. 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.co...
Nov 15, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection In classic fashion, Marco casually admits how three of his high school friends became Formula 1 drivers. You'll learn a lot about Brazilian language and culture, and hear some never-before-heard stories. Vamos l! 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 div...
Nov 13, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection um milagre. Na conversa de hoje - Marco e Alexia - falam sobre as coisas que mais os impressionam nos dias de hoje. Prepare-se pois tem muito vocabulrio novo e expresses timas. Aperte o play! 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...
Nov 08, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Quem dera ter tido a oportunidade de ter conhecido Tom Jobim e Pel. Bom, Marco, o pai da Alexia, teve essa oportunidade e conta um pouco sobre como foram essas experincias. Incrvel, n? Aperta o play e se joga no episdio com a gente! 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...
Nov 06, 2018•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection O Bolsonaro o Trump Brasileiro? Como que foi chegar a essa situao? O que podemos esperar do furuto do Brasil? Essas so as perguntas que o Foster faz para o Marco, pai da Alexia, neste episdio. Aproveite! OBS: este episdio foi gravado antes dos resultados das eleies brasileiras. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Re...
Oct 29, 2018•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Nesse episdio, Foster conversa com o pai da Alexia para aprender mais sobre como as eleies no Brasil funcionam e como chegou a essa situao complicada. Voc vai aprender muito sobre o Brasil, poltica e, o mais importante, sobre a cultura e a lngua portuguesa. Aproveite! 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to spe...
Oct 28, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Voltamos com um assunto super quente: eleies no Brasil. Amanh ser decidido o prximo Presidente brasileiro e, claro, tivemos que gravar um episdio sobre o assunto. Espero que gostem! 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 i...
Oct 27, 2018•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Tivemos uma notcia muito ruim neste domingo e segunda feira que passaram. O incndio do Museu Nacional do Brasil. O nome j diz tudo. Para quem ainda tem dvidas como se fosse o Louvre do Brasil. Infelizmente no algo difcil de ser contado e d para escutar na voz da Alexia como ela se emocionou falando sobre. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. http...
Sep 06, 2018•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Saudade. Uma das palavras mais importantes da lngua portuguesa. No episdio de hoje falamos sobre as dvidas que o Foster tem em relao utilizao correta e como hoje em dia est banalizada. Ah, e claro, contamos com o Vincius de Moraes para nos ajudar. Se voc no escutou o episdio que temos sobre ele s acessar por aqui . 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection ...
Sep 04, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Rubel um dos nossos artistas preferidos da atual cena da msica brasileira. Alm de serem composies extremamentes ricas, tem letras super interessantes para ajudar nos estudos de portugus e muito gostoso! Espero que gostem assim como gostamos de Rubel. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, un...
Aug 31, 2018•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Hoje estamos falando de um dos nossos cantores favoritos: Cartola. Cartola foi um cantor, compositor, poeta, e muito muito mais. If you already are familiar with Cartola, you know what we are talking about. For the uninitiated, you are in for a real treat. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confident...
Aug 29, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Sempre existiu uma grande diferena entre o Portugus do Brasil e de Portugal. Neste episdio falamos algumas das principais diferenas e o que nos chamou mais ateno com a nossa chegada aqui. Um episdio interessante que faz com que voc realmente perceba que, por mais que seja a mesma lngua, h maneiras de se confundir facilmente. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca C...
Aug 24, 2018•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Estamos vivos! Episdio de hoje falamos sobre as nossas primeiras impresses sobre Portugal. Mas s um pouco do que est por vir para os prximos episdios. O mais importante que queramos falar que estamos de volta. Tivemos uma semana muito estressante e sem internet mas agora est tudo sob controle. Escutem, divirtam-se e aguardem o prximo episdio. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join u...
Aug 21, 2018•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Algumas perguntas e respostas que sempre recebemos de ouvintes curiosos. Resolvemos dar um tempo em assuntos "mais srios" para falarmos sobre ns e gostamos bastante desse episdio. Espero que gostem, que tirem algumas de suas dvidas e que vocs tenham uma tima sexta feira! :) 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready ...
Aug 10, 2018•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection As vogais nasais so de causar confuso. E existem tantas em portugus que criamos esse episdio especialmente para voc conseguir treinar e tirar todas as suas dvidas. Nesse episdio focamos nas Vogais Fixas Nasais. Aproveite! 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...
Aug 07, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Esse episdio pra l de especial. Fala de um som - essencial - que o "o". O som super difcil de ser produzido por quem est aprendendo portugus e faz com que cause muita confuso. s apertar o play e acabar com as suas dvidas. 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...
Aug 02, 2018•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Como ficar trancados na varanda e ter que envolver vrias pessoas para sair dessa situao? Que mico. A gente te conta a histria e a expresso nesse episdio. Do jeito que a gente gosta para essa tera-feira ser bem leve e educativa. 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 Port...
Jul 31, 2018•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Episdio de hoje a segunda parte do desafio que lanamos essa semana para voc. Ainda sobre futebol, com muitas grias, anlises sobre o mundo do esporte que os brasileiros tantos amam e ainda com muita rapidez durante a conversa. O desafio continua! Coragem e s dar o play. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to sp...
Jul 26, 2018•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Essa semana temos como convidado um grande amigo de infncia da Alexia. Resolvemos convid-lo para participar de dois episdios para ser um desafio para vocs. Ele fala muito rpido, com muitas grias e sobre um assunto que todo o brasileiro gosta de comentar - futebol. Mas, cuidado! Vocs podem tomar um susto com a rapidez da conversa. Desafio lanado! Sem mais spoilers s dar o play! 2023 is the year to i...
Jul 24, 2018•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Last episode, we talked about 7 expressions that you need to know in Brazilian Portuguese. For the 8th episode of season 3 of Carioca Connection, we are upping our game and giving you 8 super useful phrases that you need to know if you really want to understand Brazil and improve your Brazilian Portuguese. Vamos l! 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection ...
Jul 19, 2018•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Hoje vamos falar sobre 7 expresses e palavras que voc TEM que saber em portugus. So essenciais para voc visitar o Brasil - e algumas especficas do Rio de Janeiro - e no ter dvida alguma. Espero que gostem! 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 ...
Jul 17, 2018•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Um dos meus poemas preferidos do poeta, tradutor e jornalista Mario Quintana. Era um gnio das palavras e uma pessoa muito solitria. Brasileiro, nascido no Sul do Brasil, tinha muito o que falar sobre os seus sentimentos e escolhi um dos poemas que mais gosto para hoje. Para quem quiser acompanhar, aqui est: Esperana L bem no alto do dcimo segundo andar do Ano Vive uma louca chamada Esperana E ela p...
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