# First steps: What time, what day

**Language:** Dutch  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Bo and Ravi for opening times and an appointment, one short conversation at a time. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** The doorway of a small hairdresser in Wittevrouwen in Utrecht in the late afternoon. Ravi walks past every day and finally stops to ask; Bo is tidying up between customers. They use je with each other.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what time a shop opens

Ravi stops at the hairdresser and asks Bo what time she opens.

### 2. Asking what time it closes

Ravi asks Bo what time the shop closes.

### 3. Checking which days are open

Ravi checks with Bo which days the shop is open.

### 4. Finding out about Sunday closing

Bo tells Ravi the shop is closed on Sunday and on Monday.

### 5. Asking for an appointment tomorrow

Ravi asks Bo for an appointment tomorrow afternoon.

### 6. Agreeing on a time

Three is busy, so Bo offers two later slots and Ravi picks one.

### 7. Giving your name for a booking

Bo takes Ravi's name and reads the appointment back.