🍷 Lição 18 — Eu gostaria…

What Lição 18 teaches

The politeness ladder — quero → queria → gostaria — pedir (peço!), trazer (trouxe!), and a full restaurant dinner.

Like every Rumo lesson it runs in eight steps — review of the previous lesson, new words with audio, the grammar properly explained, flashcards and typing drills, a dialogue with comprehension questions, a one-page summary, a test you pass at 70%, and your results. About 40 minutes.

Grammar in this lesson

• Gostaria, queria & poderia — the politeness ladder — From quero to gostaria — asking for things the smooth Brazilian way, plus pedir and trazer.

Read the story for this lesson first — it is free: O aniversário da dona Rosa (~level A2, sentence-by-sentence translation and audio).

After level A2 you can…

handle a pharmacy visit and describe what hurts · ask for directions and actually understand the answer · bargain at the market and complain about the weather · tell stories about your childhood and week · sound Brazilian with tá, tô and a gente. In practice: you spend a whole Sunday churrasco chatting with your Brazilian friends — no English needed.

Level A2 is 12 lessons plus the Revisão A2 exam. This is lesson 10 of 12. The other lessons: Quando eu era criança… · Me, te, com você · Ficar, saber, conhecer · Estou com fome! · Vira à direita! · Quanto custa? · Que calor! · Tenho que trabalhar! · Era uma vez… · Acho que sim! · Fala aí!.

Level A2 — €29, once

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