# First steps: Numbers, prices and paying

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

> Join Josée and Denis 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 Jean-Talon market in Montréal on a Saturday morning, busy but not rushed. Josée comes most weeks and Denis knows her face. Both hold vous throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what something costs

Josée asks Denis what the apples cost at his market stall.

### 2. Asking a price again

Josée misses the price of the tomatoes and asks Denis to say it again.

### 3. Asking the price of more items

Josée asks Denis what the bread and the eggs cost.

### 4. Saying how much you want

Denis asks how much Josée wants, and she fills her bag.

### 5. Asking for the total

Josée asks Denis what it comes to all together.

### 6. Paying in cash

Denis turns out to take cash only, so Josée pays with a twenty and a ten.

### 7. Understanding your change

Denis counts out Josée's change and sends her off.