# First steps: What I like

**Language:** Japanese  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Fujii and Nakai for a morning of tasting things at the market, one short conversation at a time. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** A Sunday morning market in Tokyo. Nakai has had this stall for forty years and talks to everyone casually; Fujii comes most weeks and answers him politely, the way a younger customer does. He speaks in plain form and she holds です・ます — the gap is fixed from the first line and neither of them crosses it.

## Lessons

### 1. Saying something tastes good

Nakai hands Fujii something to taste and asks what she thinks.

### 2. Turning down food politely

Fujii turns down the soup as politely as she can, and Nakai takes it well.

### 3. Saying something is too expensive

Nakai shows Fujii a plate she likes, until she hears the price.

### 4. Talking about music and films

Nakai and Fujii find they agree about music but not about films.

### 5. Saying you don't like sport

Fujii admits to Nakai that sport leaves her cold.

### 6. Agreeing with someone

Fujii and Nakai discover they both cook and both dislike shopping.

### 7. Saying you'll come back

Nakai asks Fujii whether she will be back next week.