Carioca Connection. Brazilian Portuguese Conversation.

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.comIn 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 versus apoio, which is the trap every English speaker falls into. Then there's sem condições, which Alexia has said her whole life as a hard no, and which Gen Z now uses for good news too. Aura arrives by way of the World Cup, and neither of them plans to start using it.As always, this episode is full of authentic Brazilian Po