Numbers, prices and time
Hearing a price said quickly, and understanding the answer the first time.
Numbers are the part of a language you understand last, because you cannot slow the other person down. You can produce a number long before you can catch one, and a price said at ordinary speed by somebody who says it four hundred times a day is not a number you have time to decode.
So this course is built for hearing rather than reciting. It starts with one to thirty, which covers bed numbers, kilometres and the hour on a bar clock, then goes up through the tens and the ordinals that appear on doors and floors. Then prices, including the way a decimal point is said aloud, the card minimum that catches people out in small villages, and asking to pay. It ends with telling the time, which matters more here than in most places: shops shut in the afternoon, and the hour something opens decides whether you eat.
60 words across 4 topics, each with example sentences and a map showing how the words connect.
What is in it
- Counting out loud – 15 words One to thirty: bed numbers, kilometres, and the hour on a bar clock.
- The big ones – 15 words after Counting out loud Forty upwards, plus the ordinals that appear on doors and floors.
- Prices and paying – 15 words after The big ones The comma said as 'con', the card minimum, and asking to pay.
- Telling the time – 15 words after The big ones Half past, quarter to, and the two ways of saying which half of the day you mean, which is the part that catches people out.
The first topic of Camino basics is free and needs no account, so you can see how the practice works before this course costs you anything.
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