2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In this episode, Alexia and Foster wrap up their 2024 retrospective, diving into the most meaningful relationships, experiences, and lessons that shaped their year. From building a sense of community in Porto to exploring personal growth through…

Get the worksheets & complete show notes for this episode at https://cariocaconnection.com A Year in Review: 2024 Reflections and Insights In this episode, Alexia and Foster dive into a reflective conversation about 2024. From personal growth to unexpected surprises, they share stories, lessons, and moments that shaped their year. This episode offe…

Get the worksheets & complete show notes for this episode at https://cariocaconnection.com In this episode, Alexia and Foster talk about New Year's Resolutions, goal setting, and some of the cultural differences related to the topic. As always, Foster's Portuguese is suffering and some humor ensues. Ready to massively improve your Brazilian Portugu…

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2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection 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 little bit more of Alexia's favorite word in Portuguese and the different ways it…

Get the worksheets & complete show notes for this episode at https://cariocaconnection.com Season 2 is coming to an end. We had so much fun recording Season 2 for you guys and we thought that the most appropriate way to finish this season is taking about all of the reasons we love Brazil. Without further ado, here's the last episode of Season 2. Re…

2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection It's that time of the year again and we're here to talk about Christmas. In this episode, Alexia and her dad Marco talk about the meaning of Christmas for Brazilians and some of the differences between celebrating Christmas in Brazil and in Port…

Get the worksheets & complete show notes for this episode at https://cariocaconnection.com The Olympics are right around the corner. Most people think it will be a disaster. We think it is worth talking about the World Cup and how Brazil has handled major events in the past. Hear our take about the World Cup. notes: Foster really doesn't know anyth…

2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In the final part of our series on Brazilian Music, Pablo, Alexia and Foster talk about the Brazilian Soul and the future of Brazilian music. It is full of great vocabulary and insight. Grab the free worksheet with a completely annotated transcr…

2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In part two of a three-part series on Brazilian music, we cover a lot. We talk about instruments, genres, where to see music in Rio, bad jokes about Zika and much more. Most importantly, we talk about how samba never dies. Grab the free workshee…

2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Brazilian music is essential to what it means to be Brazilian. Brazilians move, they dance, they sing. It's a part of who they are. If you want to understand Brazilians and Brazilian Portuguese: you have to listen to the music. Today's episode i…

2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection In the final episode of Carioca Connection's 9th season, Alexia and Foster reflect on 8 years of creating a Portuguese language learning podcast. They discuss the 3 key themes that have sustained their project: consistency, connection, and conve…

2025 is your year to level up your Brazilian Portuguese—agora é a hora! 🇧🇷 Join us at Carioca Connection Celebrate 8 years of Carioca Connection with Alexia and Foster in this anniversary episode! 🎉 From their early days as podcast beginners to becoming experienced language educators, they share honest reflections about teaching Brazilian Portugues…