In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster keep going with Gen Z slang, this time on ghosting, red flag, and ranço, told entirely in natural Brazilian Portuguese.

Two of the three come straight from English and stay that way. Alexia explains why ghosting never becomes a Portuguese verb, so you say ela me deu ghosting instead, and why bandeira vermelha exists but nobody actually says it. The third, ranço, is homegrown: that fast, sticky dislike that lands somewhere near the English "ick." Foster asks the questions a learner would actually ask, so you get the grammar and the feel of each word inside a real conversation instead of a vocabulary list. This is how Brazilian Portuguese slang behaves in the wild, and no textbook will show you that.

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