# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

**Language:** Portuguese  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Alice and Jorge for a Saturday morning of prices and change, one short conversation at a time. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** A fruit and vegetable stall at the Mercado do Bolhão in Porto, busy but not rushed, with bread and eggs from the farm at one end. Alice comes most weeks and Jorge knows her face. Both hold the polite form throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Alice asks Jorge what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Alice misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Jorge to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Alice asks Jorge what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Jorge asks how much Alice wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Alice asks Jorge what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Jorge turns out to take cash only, so Alice pays with a twenty.

### 7. Understanding your change

Jorge counts out Alice's change and sends her off.