# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

**Language:** Polish  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Basia and Marek 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 Wrocław, busy but not rushed, with bread and eggs from the farm at one end. Basia comes most weeks and Marek knows her face. They hold the polite pan and pani form throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Basia asks Marek what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Basia misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Marek to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Basia asks Marek what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Marek asks how much Basia wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Basia asks Marek what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Marek turns out to take cash only, so Basia pays with forty.

### 7. Understanding your change

Marek counts out Basia's change and sends her off.