# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

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

> Join Liu Fang and Lao Li for a Saturday morning of prices and change, one short conversation at a time. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** A stall at a neighbourhood market in Beijing on a Saturday morning, busy but not rushed. Liu Fang comes most weeks and Lao Li knows her face. Both speak to each other politely throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Liu Fang asks Lao Li what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Liu Fang misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Lao Li to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Liu Fang asks Lao Li what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Lao Li asks how much Liu Fang wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Liu Fang asks Lao Li what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Lao Li apologises that he takes cash only, so Liu Fang pays with a hundred.

### 7. Understanding your change

Lao Li counts out Liu Fang's change and sends her off.