Free Portuguese Playbooks from 10 years of Carioca Connection
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Your free Portuguese playbooks.
Each playbook is a curated set of podcast episodes built around a theme, with vocabulary, cultural notes, and a worksheet for every episode. Sign up once and we'll send them to you.
🎙️ CC Classics 25 of our best episodes, hand-picked from 10 years of the show. Every episode comes with a full worksheet: vocabulary, grammar notes, cultural context, and a transcript. These are the episodes we'd hand to someone on day one, and the ones longtime listeners keep coming back to.
🗣️ Pronunciation Playbook If you've ever been understood but known you sounded foreign, this is the playbook for you. It covers the sounds, rhythms, and patterns that native speakers notice most: the ones that, once you hear them, you can't unhear.
🎵 Brazilian Music Playbook Music is one of the best ways to train your ear for Portuguese. This playbook pulls together our music episodes (samba, bossa nova, MPB, funk carioca) so you can absorb the rhythm and sounds of the language the way Brazilians actually use it.
🏖️ Rio Playbook Carioca Connection started in Rio. This playbook gathers the stories, culture, and conversations from our Rio episodes: the slang, the neighborhoods, the references that show up constantly in Brazilian music, TV, and everyday speech.
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Ten years of Carioca Connection.
We released our first episode on May 3rd, 2016. We had no idea what we were doing.
Ten years, 400+ episodes, 500,000+ downloads, and listeners in 140+ countries later, we're still here!
And on May 3rd, 2026, we're we will be back with some of our best work to date.
In the meantime, these playbooks are for you.
Aquele abraço, Alexia & Foster
