Sabrina: I find that the coins are easy to recognize.
Mrs. Monet: Not really.
Sabrina: They are.
Mrs. Monet: You mistake the one euro coin for the two euro coin.
Sabrina: Yes, but that is not too bad. The bigger coins, for example…the two euro coin is bigger than the one euro coin. Then you have the larger cents which are a different color, the 50 cents of a euro, 20 cents of a euro.
Mrs. Monet: But for elderly people, it’s not obvious.
Sabrina: But it’s easy. And if they make a mistake with the coins…
Mrs. Monet: Yes, it’s not too bad.
Sabrina: Exactly. It’s not that important.
Mrs. Monet: But you’ll need some change to leave.
Sabrina: Why?
Mrs. Monet: On Wednesday, don’t you have to pay taxes at the airport?
Sabrina: No, I’ll pay with my credit card. It’s at Air France.
Mrs. Monet: Anyway, the euros you have now will be the same as the ones you’ll need when you come back.
Sabrina: Yes.
Mrs. Monet: We won’t switch currency before you come back.
Sabrina: Hum, fortunately not. Now, it’s done.
Mrs. Monet: The euro is here. Now, everybody is used to it.
Sabrina: It’s easy.
Mrs. Monet: It’s easy!
Sabrina: Yes, it’s easy to pay with it. What’s hard to forget about is the franc. For example, when you’re paying for something, and you have the price in euro, you convert because you’re asking yourself: ‘is it expensive, is it cheap?’
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