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Order and Pay in French: Café and Shopping Practice

Order politely, respond to the seller and practise paying in French.

Watch, listen, then practise · 7 minutes 27 seconds

Original Parle lesson with English captions, AI-assisted graphics and synthesized reference audio. Complete French dialogue models support café, bakery, shop and station practice, with an A2 drink-comparison extension. English and French captions are available. Watch on YouTube · Read the captions.

Use the lesson

  1. Listen to the complete café and bakery exchanges, then repeat during the pauses.
  2. Order without the written model, change the drink to water and join coffee and bread in one request.
  3. Try the clearly labelled A1 shop and station practice, then the A2 drink comparison. Answer each listening check before its reveal.
Practise the free café-order exercise

Lesson text and French models

Read the French models and the instructions you see in the video. Open the plain-text captions.

At a café

Client

Bonjour, un café, s'il vous plaît.

Hello, a coffee, please.

Serveur

Oui, tout de suite.

Yes, right away.

Client

Merci.

Thank you.

Change the drink to water

Client

Bonjour, de l'eau, s'il vous plaît.

Hello, water, please.

At a bakery

Client

Bonjour, une baguette, s'il vous plaît.

Hello, a baguette, please.

Boulanger

Voilà. Et avec ceci ?

Here you are. Anything else?

Client

Non, merci. Au revoir.

No, thank you. Goodbye.

Order coffee and bread together

Client

Bonjour, un café et une baguette, s'il vous plaît.

Hello, a coffee and a baguette, please.

Vendeur

Voilà. C'est tout ?

Here you are. Is that all?

Client

Oui, merci. Au revoir.

Yes, thank you. Goodbye.

At a shop · A1 payment

Client

Je voudrais payer, s'il vous plaît.

I would like to pay, please.

Vendeur

Ça fait trois euros.

That's three euros.

Client

Voilà cinq euros.

Here is five euros.

Vendeur

Merci, et voici la monnaie.

Thank you, and here is the change.

At a station · A0 request and A1 card payment

Voyageur

Bonjour, un billet pour Paris, s'il vous plaît.

Hello, a ticket to Paris, please.

Guichetier

Aller simple ou aller-retour ?

One-way or round trip?

Voyageur

Aller simple, merci.

One-way, thank you.

Voyageur

Je paie par carte.

I pay by card.

Compare drinks · A2 extension

A

Tu préfères le café ou le thé ?

Do you prefer coffee or tea?

B

Je préfère le café, il est plus fort.

I prefer coffee, it is stronger.

A

Moi, je trouve le thé meilleur.

I find tea better.

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Original lesson by the developer of Parle: Learn & Speak French, App ID 6761505050. AI-assisted scripts and graphics; synthesized reference audio. About Parle.