Asking prices and shopping
The focus of this page is listening for numbers: asking how much things cost, saying how many you want, and catching the prices clerks call out.
What this page practisesasking unit and total prices · saying how many you want · understanding prices from three digits to the ten-thousands place · saying your payment method
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Five phrases to ask the price
You can use these as-is in any store.
Buying two at the store
Practice asking prices, saying how many you want, and catching the total — listen closely for 「千」and「二千」.
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clerk
いらっしゃいませ。
Welcome!
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Customer
すみません、これはいくらですか。
Excuse me, how much is this?
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clerk
千二百円です。
That's 1,200 yen.
1000 is read せん, not いちせん — don't add いち.
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Customer
じゃあ、これを二つください。
In that case, I'll take two of these, please.
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clerk
二千四百円になります。
That'll be 2,400 yen.
「〜になります」 is the set phrase store clerks use to announce the total price.
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clerk
ありがとうございました。
Thank you very much!
Audio on this page is AI-synthesized speech (Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS), not a human recording; the sentences are original.


