Saying numbers in English

Numbers are found in prices (35€), dates, fractions, maths formulae, financial reports, telephone numbers, etc. Numbers are everywhere! That's how important they are. We say the same figure , say 2010, differently depending if it's a time, a year, a price, a code so learn not just the numbers but how to say them (and their associated prepositions if necessary!).

People all levels seem to have a lot difficulties with numbers, whether it is when saying dates or with fractions or long numbers. Here is a compilation of material that you, if you are one of these people, might find useful.

Numbers

http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/dates.html

See them, hear them + lots of useful info.

Number+ teen     number +ty

Thir teen                    thir ty

http://www.engvid.com/english-pronunciation-numbers/

Saying long numbers:

very easy, same order as in your language

Watch and learn:                                    J

http://www.engvid.com/speaking-english-saying-numbers/

Three hundred and thirty three thousand three hundred and thirteen… quin número és?

In British English we use and after “hundred”. We pronounce it very quickly like in Guns ‘n roses, the musing band from 1990s!

 

Dates
In English, we can say dates either with the day before the month, or the month before the day:
We write: 1st Jan, 2001 or Jan 1st, 2001… and    1 Jan, 2001 or Jan 1, 2001

We say: The first of January / January the first.

Remember to use ordinal numbers for dates in English even if we do not write it.
(The first, the second, the third, the fourth, the twenty-second, the thirty-first etc.)

Years
For years up until 2000, separate the four

numbers into two pairs of two:
1965 = nineteen sixty-five
1871 = eighteen seventy-one
1999 = nineteen ninety-nine

For this decade, you need to say "two thousand and —-" when speaking British English:
2001 = two thousand and one
2009 = two thousand and nine

Large numbers
Divide the number into units of hundreds and thousands:
400,000 = four hundred thousand (no s plural)

If the number includes a smaller number, use "and" in British English:
450,000 = four hundred and fifty thousand
400,360 = four hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty  

Watch this video: http://www.engvid.com/speaking-english-saying-numbers/

Fractions, ratios and percentages
½ = one half
1/3 = one third
¼ = one quarter
1/5 = one fifth
1/ 6 = one sixth etc
3/5 = three fifths

1.5% = one point five percent
0.3% = nought / zero point three percent

2:1 = two to one

Saying 0
Depending on the context, we can pronounce zero in different ways:
2-0 (football) = Two nil
30 – 0 (tennis) = Thirty love
604 7721 (phone number) = six oh four…
0.4 (a number) = nought point four / zero point four
0C (temperature) = zero degrees

Talking about calculations in English
+ (plus)
2 + 1 = 3 (two plus one equals/is three)
- (minus / take away)
5 – 3 = 2 (five minus three equals two / five take away three equals two)
x (multiplied by / times)
2 x 3 = 6 (two multiplied by three equals six / two times three equals six)
/ (divided by)
6 / 3 = 2 (six divided by three equals two)