# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

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

> Join Bianca 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 a Saturday street market in Belo Horizonte, busy but not rushed. Bianca comes most weeks and Jorge knows her face. They use você with each other.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

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

### 2. Asking a price again

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

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Bianca asks Jorge what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

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

### 5. Asking for the total

Bianca asks Jorge what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Jorge turns out to take cash only, so Bianca pays with a hundred.

### 7. Understanding your change

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