# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

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

> Join Fatma and Ragab 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 neighbourhood grocery stall at a market in Cairo on a Saturday morning, busy but not rushed. Fatma comes most weeks and Ragab knows her face. Both speak to each other politely throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Fatma asks Ragab what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Fatma misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Ragab to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Fatma asks Ragab what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Ragab asks how much Fatma wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Fatma asks Ragab what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Ragab turns out to take cash only, so Fatma pays with two hundred.

### 7. Understanding your change

Ragab counts out Fatma's change and sends her off.