Carioca Connection
Alexia and Foster's decade of unscripted Rio Portuguese conversations, 400+ episodes.
- LevelFor intermediate · For advanced
- PriceFree with a paid tier
- SpokenExplained in English
- Made forFor learners
- Episodes here5 newest
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Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster talk about the final round of Coisas que são TOP, from two picks sent in by listeners to their own favorite things, told entirely in natural Brazilian Portuguese. The conversation moves from public water fountains and home vegetable gardens to hummingbirds, handmade gifts, friendships across generations, and the planetarium, with a few detours through dinosaurs and Friends. You'll hear everyday vocabulary like bebedouro, horta, and…
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Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster dive into what they consider “top” moments and things, with playful banter about favorite experiences. They discuss entering the ocean at pleasantly cool water temperatures (around 17–20°C), the joy of dogs greeting you at the door, and personal favorites like houseplants bringing comfort and life to a space. The convo then travels through animals—capybaras, otters, geese in a V formation, beavers as nature’s engineers, sloths, and even…
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Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster talk about the small things that make daily life better, round two of their "coisas que são top" list, told entirely in natural Brazilian Portuguese. You'll pick up the everyday vocabulary of comfort and travel: bedding, bathrooms, balconies, trains, coffee. You'll also get the thing that makes this show different, which is Alexia stopping Foster mid-sentence and correcting him, five times in one conversation, on exactly the mistakes…
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Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster try something new: each writes a private list of "coisas que são top," favorite everyday things, and reads it out loud for the first time live, in natural Brazilian Portuguese. The lists land on real life: kitchen gadgets, bedding, disposable cameras, handwritten notes, chatty pilots. You'll pick up natural Brazilian Portuguese for describing your own favorite things, from casual exclamations to home vocabulary you won't find in a…
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Check out our brand new Portuguese Playbooks! Free, practical guides to help you understand real Brazilian Portuguese and speak with confidence. Get your free Playbooks at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode of Carioca Connection, Alexia and Foster wrap up their mini-series on Brazilian Gen Z slang, told entirely in natural Brazilian Portuguese. Alexia breaks down words like "shippar," "cringe," and "vibes": how each one actually works in a sentence, when Brazilians reach for them instead of older expressions, and where the qualifiers matter. Foster's questions keep the grammar clear without turning it into a lesson, and a couple of classic idioms show up for contrast. It's the…
What it is
A Brazilian and her American partner talk about whatever is going on — music, relationships, Brazilian politics, language mistakes — without scripting or slowing down much, which is the whole appeal once learner audio starts to feel fake. The podcast is free; playbooks, worksheets and a self-study membership (around $149/year) are paid. Heavily carioca in accent and slang, so budget some confusion if you learned a more neutral Brazilian Portuguese.
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