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 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…
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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 get into three words about pressure and limits, tankar, sem condições, and aura, told entirely in natural Brazilian Portuguese. Alexia is honest that she's never heard anyone say tankar out loud, only online, and she isn't sold on it: it collapses aguentar, suportar, and lidar com into one word when those three feel completely different to her. Sorting them out is the best part of the episode, along with Foster's question about suporte…
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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 continue their conversation about Gen Z Brazilian Portuguese slang. This time they get into the more performative side of the internet. You'll learn what it means to flopar, how biscoitar somehow became a verb, and what young Brazilians do with the English word slay. Foster tries inventing a few words that don't exist, and Alexia's instant no might be the most useful lesson in the episode. There's also a very carioca defense of biscoito…
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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