Food and shopping · Free video lesson
Buy Fruit in French: Prices, Quantities and Speaking Practice
Order fruit politely, ask its price and distinguish the price of one item from the total for several.
Watch, listen, then practise · 7 minutes 45 seconds
Original Parle lesson with English captions, AI-assisted graphics and synthesized reference audio. The video and website practice are free. The Food and shopping unit in the optional App requires Premium; all 35 Sounds pages and the first four First Contact missions are free. Complete owned phrase models use synthesized reference audio. Watch on YouTube · Read the captions.
Use the lesson
- Listen to the complete fruit exchanges, follow the quantity and price animations, then repeat in the pauses.
- Use each eight-second speaking turn without the written model and choose your answer before the listening check is revealed.
- Try the free Food and shopping website exercises. The Food and shopping unit in the optional App requires Premium.
Lesson text and French models
Read the French models and the instructions you see in the video. Open the plain-text captions.
At the market
Bonjour, vous désirez ?
Hello, what would you like?
Bonjour, une pomme, s'il vous plaît.
Hello, one apple, please.
Voilà. Et avec ceci ?
Here you are. Anything else?
Non, merci. C'est tout.
No, thank you. That's all.
How much does it cost?
Bonjour, combien coûte la banane ?
Hello, how much is the banana?
La banane est à un euro.
The banana is one euro.
D'accord, je prends deux bananes.
Okay, I'll take two bananas.
Ça fait deux euros.
That's two euros.
At the supermarket
Bonjour, je voudrais trois pommes.
Hello, I would like three apples.
Voilà. Et avec ceci ?
Here you are. Anything else?
Non, merci. Combien ça coûte ?
No, thank you. How much is it?
Trois euros. Vous payez comment ?
Three euros. How will you pay?
En espèces. Voilà.
Cash. Here you are.
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This video and its matching website practice are free. In the optional iPhone and iPad App, all 35 Sounds pages and the first 4 First Contact Course missions are free. The full 120-mission course requires Premium. Phrase Match detects words; it does not grade your accent.
Try the first 4 Course missions freeOriginal lesson by the developer of Parle: Learn & Speak French, App ID 6761505050. AI-assisted scripts and graphics; synthesized reference audio. About Parle.