In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and her dad, Marco Antonio, talk about the last day of their Belgium trip: the city of Ghent and a final museum day in Brussels, told entirely in natural Brazilian Portuguese.

This is the finale of their five-part Belgium series. You'll pick up real vocabulary for travel, art, and describing a city you fall for: trains and bikes, wandering a place with no fixed plan, talking about paintings, and giving your honest final impressions. Along the way you'll hear them stand before the Van Eyck brothers' Ghent Altarpiece, walk through a Flemish art museum, and puzzle over the surrealism of Magritte, all in the easy, opinionated back-and-forth that real people actually use. Because it's a father and daughter talking the way they really talk, you'll catch the rhythm, the teasing, and the asides that textbooks and apps leave out, the kind of Brazilian Portuguese that trains your ear for real conversation. It's warm, funny, and a fitting way to close out the trip.

As always, this episode is full of authentic Brazilian Portuguese that you won't find in textbooks or apps. Enjoy!