2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster talk about the popular Brazilian Portuguese expression - "Fazer vaquinha" 🐄 This is another installment of a series of episodes about popular Brazilian Portuguese expressions that you need to know. Do you know what it means when a Brazilian says, "Fazer vaquinha?" You will after listening to this episode of Carioca Connection. Apert...
Aug 31, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster talk about the popular Brazilian Portuguese expression - "Maria vai com as outras." This is the first installment of a series of episodes about popular Brazilian Portuguese expressions that you need to know. Do you know what it means when a Brazilian says, "Maria vai com as outras...?" You will after listening to this episode of Cario...
Aug 24, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster talk about the curious origin story of one of Brazil's most delicious snacks - "pastel de feira." Whether or not you have tried Brazil's "pastel de feira," you are in for a treat with this episode. As always, you will learn tons of real-life Brazilian Portuguese and want to eat a pastel immediately after listening. Aperta play! Ready...
Aug 17, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection, we continue our conversation about how to stay healthy while working remotely. Alexia shares some of her best tips for setting limits and finding a healthy work-life balance. As always, lots of laugh and great Brazilian Portuguese! Aperta play! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧...
Aug 10, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster revisit a popular theme on the show — remote work. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com (00:00) - Introdução do episódio com Alexia e Foster Hodge. (00:50) - Cumprimentos e introdução à conversa (01:22) - Gravação remot...
Aug 03, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster talk about the concept of “Beginner’s Mind” and how you can apply this technique to improve your Brazilian Portuguese. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com (00:00) - Apresentação e introdução ao tema: Curso de Meditação...
Jul 27, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection , Foster attends a meditation workshop in Portugal. He describes his experience participating in a meditation retreat in Portuguese. Alexia gives her perspective on meditation. As always, this is a fun episode filled with tons of useful, real-life Brazilian Portuguese! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazi...
Jul 20, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection , Alexia and Foster dive into one of the most useful verbs (in Brazilian Portuguese. The verb ficar. They discuss the many different ways you can use ficar and how important the verb ficar is for improving your Portuguese. Aperta play! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us...
Jul 13, 2023•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 of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster play a game where they discuss whether things are overrated, underrated, or appropriate. They cover topics like cheeseburgers, Paris, bacon, surprise parties, and costume parties. Improve your Brazilian Portuguese with real-life vocabulary, authentic conversations, and have fun at the same time. Press play! Ready to speak confidently,...
Jul 06, 2023•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 of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster explore some interesting idioms of Brazilian Portuguese. They discuss the English words "overrated" and "underrated" and their Brazilian Portuguese equivalents, "superestimado" and "subestimado", providing insights into the usage of these idioms in context. This enriching conversation also reveals how English words are assimilated int...
Jun 29, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection as they dive into the captivating series "Daisy Jones and the Six." Experience the musical journey of a generation filled with rock 'n' roll, drugs, and wild stories. Alexia and Foster share their thoughts on the series, highlighting the incredible cast, the authentic musical performances, and the nostalgic portrayal of a bygone era. If you're a music l...
Jun 22, 2023•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 In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster dive into another TV series, "The Diplomat." Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com (00:00) - Introdução do episódio com dificuldades técnicas (01:55) - Início da discussão sobre a série "O Diplomata" da Netflix (10:12) -...
Jun 15, 2023•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 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 of gift-giving 💜 (00:01) - Introdução e explicação dos problemas técnicos (01:01) - Contextualização do feriado e da chuva no Brasil e Portugal (01:58) - Criança de 2 anos cantando (02:06) - Int...
Jun 12, 2023•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 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 "mamão com açucar" e como terminar em alta." Click play for tons of authentic Brazilian Portuguese, new vocabulary, and some good laughs. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portugues...
Jun 08, 2023•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 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 you simply want to improve your Brazilian Portuguese - you will learn a lot from this episode! Enjoy! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian cultu...
Jun 01, 2023•26 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 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 the benefits of cooking, both for your physical and mental health. They also discuss time-saving devices and services, such as the Bimby robot of Portugal and the Always Pan. Tune in to learn more ...
May 25, 2023•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 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 cooking vocabulary, so we hosted a live class on cooking vocab for CC Club members. The live class inspired us to record a mini-season about cooking in Brazilian Portuguese. Enjoy! Ready to speak c...
May 18, 2023•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 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 experiences and discuss how different work environments, such as home office and co-working, can affect productivity and the ability to focus on specific tasks. With tips and examples, this conversation add...
May 11, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection 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 stories. Tune in as they dive into the roles of lack of motivation, poor time management, and task overload contributing to procrastination. Don't miss out on their helpful insights and tips for overco...
May 04, 2023•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 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 tasks or actions, even when we know there may be negative consequences. We share our personal experiences and insights on how to tackle these common obstacles in both work and personal life. Don...
Apr 27, 2023•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 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 this one, because you will learn a ton of useful Portuguese phrases & expressions. Enjoy! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in ...
Apr 20, 2023•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 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 discuss the importance of sharing your dreams to practice Portuguese and express the unconscious mind. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian cu...
Apr 13, 2023•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 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 Portuguese phrases and slang. Enjoy! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Apr 06, 2023•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 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 daily lives. From time management to travel planning, we share some examples of how AI can be useful in different contexts. And of course, we get into the potential risks of relying too much on AI...
Mar 30, 2023•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 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 deep dive into the complicated history of the Brazilian Portuguese we know and love today. Want to dive deeper? Join us in the Carioca Connection Club! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-l...
Mar 23, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Mar 16, 2023•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 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 Brazilian artist Tim Bernardes. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Mar 09, 2023•17 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 the many different pronunciations of the letter X in Brazilian Portuguese. This is one of the most difficult sounds for Portuguese learners, so understanding some of the pronunciation rules will massively improve your Brazilian Portuguese. Enjoy! Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in...
Mar 02, 2023•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 In today’s episode, Foster rants about his misgivings about living in a big city while Alexia politely corrects his Portuguese. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
Feb 23, 2023•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 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. Ready to speak confidently, understand real-life Portuguese, and dive deep into Brazilian culture in 2025? 🇧🇷 Join us at: https://cariocaconnection.com...
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