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Essential Portuguese vocabulary for cooking in Brazil
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...
Benefits of cooking in Brazilian Portuguese
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 persona...
Cooking with 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 ...
Paralysis Analysis and Distractions
In this episode, Alexia and Foster discuss the difficulties of dealing with procrastination, especially in regard to distractions and decision-making paralysis. They s...
Cracking the Portuguese procrastination puzzle
Welcome back to another episode of Carioca Connection! In this episode, Alexia and Foster continue their discussion about procrastination, exploring the reasons behind...
Portuguese Procrastination: Overcoming Fear of Failure and Perfectionism
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 perfect...
Learn Portuguese in your sleep 😴
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 Brazil...
Sono e sonhos: Alexia's crazy dream in Portuguese
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...
Brazilian Slang from the robots of Rio de Janeiro
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 lear...
Talking about the Pros and Cons of AI in Portuguese
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...
The Beauty of Brazilian Portuguese
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...
An introduction to Fernando Pessoa {with special guest Marco Antonio!}
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.
Tim Bernardes
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...
How to pronounce the letter X in Brazilian Portuguese
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 P...
The pros and cons of city life
In today’s episode, Foster rants about his misgivings about living in a big city while Alexia politely corrects his Portuguese.
A day in the park to improve your Portuguese
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 y...
Brazilian Portuguese abbreviations you need to know in 2023
Alexia puts Foster’s Portuguese to the test with a rapid-fire quiz. Learn about the most important Brazilian Portuguese abbreviations that you need to know in 2023 and...
Love is Blind Brazil 🇧🇷 ❤️ 🇧🇷
Alexia and Foster just finished the second season of Love is Blind Brazil. Without giving any spoilers, they talk about some of the benefits of watching Brazilian real...
Medical situations in Portuguese
In this episode, we talk about Foster’s allergic reaction, allergies in general, and how to prepare for a visit to the doctor in Brazilian Portuguese. 2023 is the year...
Going to the gym & essential fitness vocabulary
2023 is the year that Alexia is going to get in good physical shape. We talk about Alexia’s experience going to the gym and the essential fitness vocabulary to sound B...
New Year’s Resolutions and how to set goals in Brazilian Portuguese
In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about New Year’s Resolutions and how to set goals in Brazilian Portuguese. 2023 is the year to improve your Portuguese! Come j...
Brazilian superstitions & New Year’s traditions
In the first episode of Season 8, we ring in the New Year by talking about some bizarre Brazilian traditions and superstitions. 2023 is the year to improve your Portug...
S07:E40 - Cafuné. Abraço. Carinho. Beijo. Chamego. Amor.
Cafuné. Abraço. 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 cultur...
S07:E39 - Como aprender vocabulário com Netflix
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 voc...
S07:E38 - It's time to learn Portuguese!
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 differ...
S07:E37 - Do you know the difference between TEMPO and HORA in Portuguese?
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 ...
S07:E36 - A brief analysis of Oração ao Tempo from Caetano Veloso
In this episode, Alexia provides a quick analysis of the song Oração Ao Tempo from Caetano Veloso. This beautiful song holds a special place in Alexia’s heart, so she...
S07:E35 - Because your Portuguese needs to be on time!
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 vocabular...
S07:E34 - Do you have a favorite word in Portuguese?
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 lit...
S07:E33 - How do we deal with stage fright?
If you listened to the previous episode, you already have a pretty good idea of what stage fright is. Well, we’re podcasters so we have to deal with it every single da...