# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

**Language:** Dutch  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Truus and Kees 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 the Saturday market on the Binnenrotte in Rotterdam, busy but not rushed, with bread and eggs from the farm at one end. Truus comes most weeks and Kees knows her face. They use je with each other, as Dutch market traders do.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Truus asks Kees what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Truus misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Kees to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Truus asks Kees what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Kees asks how much Truus wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Truus asks Kees what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Kees turns out to take cash only, so Truus pays with a twenty.

### 7. Understanding your change

Kees counts out Truus's change and sends her off.