PollyStop
B1 · Finding your flow 43 words · 1 min

Polly au marché

Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns how to ask for prices.

Illustration for Polly au marché

Before you read

Before you read

Listen to Polly read it
French voice

Bonjour ! Quel beau marché !

Qu'est-ce que c'est ? Je n'ai jamais vu ce fruit.

Qu'est-ce que c'est ? Je n'ai jamais vu ce fruit.

Je voudrais deux pommes et une de celles-là, pour goûter.

Je voudrais deux pommes et une de celles-là, pour goûter.

C'est combien en tout ?

C'est combien en tout ?

Très bien, merci. Voilà.

Très bien, merci. Voilà.

Un sac, s'il vous plaît. Je dois tout porter jusqu'à la maison.

Un sac, s'il vous plaît. Je dois tout porter jusqu'à la maison.

That's the story.

Your AI tutor

Now say it out loud. Talk about this story with Polly.

Polly is PollyStop's voice tutor. She talks with you about stories like this one, out loud.

Get PollyStop free.

  • A new graded story every day, with audio.
  • Save the words you meet and practise them later.
  • Speaking practice with feedback.
  • Polly, the voice tutor, is opening up to more learners.
Get PollyStop free Read another B1 story

Keep going at B1

Next stories

La station où personne ne descend Polly follows the first subway line to a curved, tiled station built to impress in nineteen oh four and closed decades later because trains grew too long for its curve. La Main Ouverte du Port Polly flies into New York Harbor and looks closely at the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France built so thin that its metal skin is no thicker than two coins. La course où le fromage gagne toujours Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost always gets there first. Deux animaux tout neufs, chacun de la taille d'un ongle Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a canyon that a planned dam could flood.

All French stories by level →

Read this story in another language.

Same story, different language. Compare the shape and rhythm without losing the plot.

Arabic Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Filipino Finnish German Greek Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Mandarin Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovak Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese

Keep learning in PollyStop

Listen, save words, practise

Get the app