# First steps: What I like

**Language:** Chinese  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Lin Yu and Zhao Peng for a Sunday morning of tasting things at the market, one short conversation at a time. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** A Sunday market in Beijing, food stalls at one end and secondhand things at the other. Lin Yu and Zhao Peng have been friends since school and come here most weeks. They are on familiar terms with each other.

## Lessons

### 1. Saying something tastes good

Lin Yu gives Zhao Peng something to try and he loves it.

### 2. Saying you don't like something

Lin Yu and Zhao Peng disagree about the soup, which he finds too salty.

### 3. Saying something is too expensive

Zhao Peng and Lin Yu find a picture they both like, until they hear the price.

### 4. Talking about music and films

Lin Yu and Zhao Peng find they agree about music but not about films.

### 5. Saying you don't like football

Zhao Peng loves football and Lin Yu wants nothing to do with it.

### 6. Agreeing with someone

Lin Yu and Zhao Peng discover they both cook and both dislike shopping.

### 7. Making a plan with a friend

Zhao Peng and Lin Yu decide to cook together.