Live Class — July 10, 2026
note: this is a recording of a recent CC Club live class. The classes are reserved for members of the CC Club — please do not share publicly 🙏
Highlights
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Chat & additional resources 📚
🎇 Festivals & Fireworks
fogos de artifício — fireworks
foguete — rocket / firework (often the loud firecracker kind)
Mês dos Santos Populares — the Month of the Popular Saints, Portugal's June festival season
São João — the huge Porto street festival on the night of June 23–24
Festa Junina — Brazil's June festival tradition, same saintly roots as São João but with quadrilha dancing, corn foods, and a caipira theme
🎰 Betting & Money
apostas — bets
bets — the online betting apps, used as a loanword in Brazil (e.g. "vou fazer uma bet")
Euromilhões — EuroMillions, the European lottery
golpe — scam
cair no golpe — to fall for a scam
é um vício — it's an addiction
ele está envolvido — he's involved
🗣️ Expressions & Words
encucada — hung up on something, stressed out about it (carioca slang, from "encucar")
entalada — stuck / cornered (from "entalar," to be jammed or wedged, often figurative)
posto de gasolina — gas station (often shortened to just "posto")
laranja — orange (the fruit)
ao redor — around
subúrbio — suburb / outskirts
pelo menos — at least
piadas — jokes
engraçado — funny, comedic
lesão — injury
tadinhos — poor things (affectionate pity)
é uma palavra chave — it's a key word
🎤 Artists & Cultural References
Gusttavo Lima — one of Brazil's biggest sertanejo singers, caught up in a 2024 betting-linked money-laundering investigation
CazéTV — Casimiro's hugely popular Brazilian streaming channel
Dona Flor e os Seus Dois Maridos — classic 1976 Brazilian film based on the Jorge Amado novel
capivara — capybara, referenced playfully ("capivara na pista!")
📍 Places
Guimarães — Portuguese city, birthplace of the nation, where Alexia and Foster went to escape the São João crowds
Marrocos — Morocco
reMarkable (the e-ink writing tablet): https://remarkable.com/
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (the card-counting book):
