Learn about Euros and cents in Europe
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| INTRODUCTION |
| In today’s lesson, we’re going to learn about French currency, the Euro. |
| The euro consists of ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties, fifties, hundreds, two hundreds, and five hundreds. |
| As of October 2007, the exchange rate is roughly seventy euro cents to one U.S. dollar and roughly sixty euro cents to one hundred Japanese yen. Paper currency includes six bills and eight coins. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| In French, the word for euro is pronounced "euro." |
| The word "cents" is translated in two ways. One is to simply say the word in English: cents. The second and more common way is to say centimes. |
| Centimes |
| Centimes |
| Centimes |
| When saying a price, we often do not say the word for cents. |
| For example, "one euro twenty" translates as un euro vingt. If the price is made only of cents, then we say the price and then centimes or cents. |
| For example, "fifty cents" is cinquante centimes or cinquante cents. |
Outro |
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| This is the end of today’s lesson. See you soon! À bientôt! |
Comments
HideHave you use, buy, seen, exchanged the Euros?
Bonjour Veronica,
When you pass by... what? Who? Can you explain a bit more, please?
Belle journée,
Marion
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Bonjour Frenchpod101,
I'd like to know what to say when you pass by
Veronica
Bonjour Hammered Coin,
So is a hammered coin an old hand made coin or an expression I don t know about ?
Please feel free to share your own experience about learning French I am always open minded to know about the difficulties English speakers have when learning French.
It is obviously something I can NOT experienced, but just observe!!!!!!
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Bonjour Wilson
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No, je n'ai jamais utilisé l'euro. Cela signifie que je n'ai pas été n Europe tristement.:cry:
No problem! ^-^
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This lesson is not in the public feed... (yes, it happened again :sad:).
And I use euros all the time! However, everything has become way more expensive since the euro became our official currency. Has the same happened in France?