The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Portuguese-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The ALARM method (Approved Learning Automatic Remembering Method) utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. Each sentence was composed only with words explained in previous chapters. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only 29 new words each. Audio tracks are available on www.lppbooks.com/Portuguese/FirstPortugueseReaderv1_audio/En/