Cheat Sheet for E12S02
Listen to episode 12 here
- Skye Brannon’s article on eating and drinking like a local in Buenos Aires
- Expanish Spanish school in BA
- Rio-Sao Paulo: It’s a huge rivalry, like Madrid-Barcelona, NY-LA, Paris-Lyon…
- Carioca: A native of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
- Paulista: A native of the STATE of Sao Paulo
- Paulistano: A native of the CITY of Sao Paulo
- Saudade: A very strong concept in Brazilian culture, that can mean melancholia, nostalgia, sadness””
- Quinceañera: a Latin American tradition of celebrating with a big wedding-type party the coming of age of a girl, at the age of 15.
- Carnaval Carioca: Notice the music in the back is in Portuguese:
httpv://youtu.be/sBviWP9QVKA
- Flaca: It literally means “Skinny girl”, but it actually means “babe” in Argentina.
- “Muito obrigado”: Fer thanks the Brazilian guests in Portuguese.
- “Before the Quilombo”: Fer refers to the economic meltdown of 2001, that put an end to the convertibility scheme of pegging the Argentine peso to the US dollar 1 to 1.
- Pesetas: The name of the Spanish currency, before that country joined the Euro.
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