# First steps: What I like

**Language:** Arabic  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Dina and Tarek for a 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 Friday market in Cairo, food stalls at one end and secondhand things at the other. Dina and Tarek have been friends since school and come here most weeks. They are on familiar terms with each other.

## Lessons

### 1. Saying something tastes good

Dina gives Tarek something to try and he loves it.

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

Dina and Tarek disagree about the cheese, which he finds too salty.

### 3. Saying something is too expensive

Tarek and Dina find a picture they both like, until they hear the price.

### 4. Talking about music and films

Dina and Tarek find they agree about music but not about films.

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

Tarek loves football and Dina wants nothing to do with it.

### 6. Agreeing with someone

Dina and Tarek discover they both cook and both hate the washing-up.

### 7. Making a plan with a friend

Tarek and Dina decide to cook together.