# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

**Language:** French  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Sonia and Karim 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 in Marseille, busy but not rushed, with bread and eggs from the farm at one end. Sonia comes most weeks and Karim knows her face. Both hold vous throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Sonia asks Karim what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Sonia misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Karim to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Sonia asks Karim what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Karim asks how much Sonia wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Sonia asks Karim what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Karim turns out to take cash only, so Sonia pays with a twenty.

### 7. Understanding your change

Karim counts out Sonia's change and sends her off.