# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

**Language:** Hindi  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Sunita and Ramesh 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 fruit and vegetable stall at a neighbourhood market in Lajpat Nagar in Delhi on a Saturday morning, busy but not rushed. Sunita comes most weeks and Ramesh knows her face. Both speak to each other formally throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Sunita asks Ramesh what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Sunita misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Ramesh to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Sunita asks Ramesh what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Ramesh asks how much Sunita wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Sunita asks Ramesh what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Ramesh turns out to take cash only, so Sunita pays with five hundred.

### 7. Understanding your change

Ramesh counts out Sunita's change and sends her off.