2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 2023 is the year that Alexia is going to get in good physical shape. We talk about Alexias experience going to the gym and the essential fitness vocabulary to sound Brazilian. 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...
Jan 19, 2023•12 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 New Years Resolutions and how to set goals in Brazilian Portuguese. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Jan 12, 2023•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection In the first episode of Season 8, we ring in the New Year by talking about some bizarre Brazilian traditions and superstitions. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Jan 05, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Cafun. Abrao. 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, and feel more Brazilian - this is episode is for you. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
May 19, 2022•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, 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 watching series and movies in Brazilian Portuguese. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
May 12, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 Portuguese can be very confusing. 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 ...
Mar 24, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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! 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:/...
Mar 21, 2022•15 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 provides a quick analysis of the song Orao Ao Tempo from Caetano Veloso. This beautiful song holds a special place in Alexias heart, so she wanted to share it with you and help you read between the lines. 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 Por...
Mar 17, 2022•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 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...
Mar 14, 2022•13 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 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 favorite word in Portuguese and the different ways it can be used. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: https://cariocaconnecti...
Mar 09, 2022•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 listened to the previous episode, you already have a pretty good idea of what stage fright is. Well, were podcasters so we have to deal with it every single day. In this episode we share some tips and methods we came up with to make handling with stage fright a lot easier. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com ...
Jan 26, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 well talk about in this 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...
Jan 19, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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, "Chama de primo que t tudo certo." 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-li...
Jan 12, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 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...
Jan 05, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Adeus, ano velho Feliz ano novo Que tudo se realize No ano que vai nascer Muito dinheiro no bolso Sade pra dar e vender Para os solteiros, sorte no amor Nenhuma esperana perdida Para os casados, nenhuma briga Paz e sossego na vida. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Dec 31, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 between celebrating Christmas in Brazil and in Portugal. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: h...
Dec 24, 2021•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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. 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 Brazil...
Dec 15, 2021•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 life. 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 i...
Dec 09, 2021•9 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, 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 Ao de Graas (thanksgiving) but there are definitely a lot of things we are thankful for. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready ...
Dec 07, 2021•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 deprived of work or lost sales in their businesses. In this episode, we continue our conversation about the blackout and how scary our dependency on technology is. 2023 is the year to improve your Portug...
Dec 02, 2021•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 deprived of work or lost sales in their businesses. So... How dependent are we really on our technology? 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://...
Dec 01, 2021•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com...
Nov 25, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 for all things Brazilian. With hundreds of episodes, thousands of worksheets, exclusive members only content and events your Brazilian Portuguese will be on a fast-track to fluency. 2023 is the year to impro...
Nov 23, 2021•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 boring at first, but if you've learned a foreign language before, you know how important this is. The Fundamentals is a 4-week course covering the foundations of Brazilian Portuguese & culture. We explor...
Nov 18, 2021•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 Brazilian Portuguese & culture. We explore many of the common places and situations you are likely to find yourself in Brazil. From restaurants to supermarkets to a variety of accommodations we've got...
Nov 16, 2021•13 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 Adventures with Alexia, Alexia talks to Adriana. An old friend of Alexias, Adriana knows a thing or two about living in different cultures. Growing up between Brazil and the U.S. she is now married to an Englishman and lives in England. Adriana has a lot to share about adapting to different cultures and knows more about the hidden gems of Brazil than just about anyone. Adventures...
Nov 11, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 lives in Singapore and has a very interesting life story to share. Check out Carioca Connection Club at https://cariocaconnection.com/ 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca...
Nov 09, 2021•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection 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 Brazilians are making it in different parts of the globe. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come join us in the Carioca Connection Club. https://cariocaconnection.com Ready to speak confident...
Oct 05, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection Penedo is home to the biggest Finnish community in Brazil and you won't believe how it got started. A hint: it has a lot to do with the sun, vegetarianism and abstaining from coffee. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Sep 28, 2021•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portugueseagora a hora! Join us at Carioca Connection A beautiful natural paradise in Rio de Janeiro that was once a place of isolation for lepers and a maximum security prison, Ilha Grande has a lot of stories you probably haven't heard about. 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 ...
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