تاریخ و سال ها در انگلیسی آمریکایی و بریتیش

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.

Today I am going to correct an error that many of you have been making. I’m gonna tell you how to say and write dates properly. Now, the main thing that confuses people, is the difference between American Dates and British Dates. Americans would say the month first, then the day, then the year. British people however, would say the day first, then the month, then the year.

So that’s the main difference, I would say my date of birth at the 10th of June 1994 Americans would say June 10th 1994 Now another error that people make is that they get confused between cardinal and ordinal numbers. Here are the cardinal numbers: one, two, three, four, five. Then, we have the ordinal numbers: first, second, third, fourth, fifth. See the difference? Cardinal Ordinal Now, the abbreviation of ordinal numbers are as follows: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. And so on.

And we will always use this format when writing out dates in full. It’s very rare to see an unabbreviated ordinal number in a written date. This is just waste of space. Like many things on this planet. Another error is that students often forget that we write months with a capital letter. Make sure you fully understand the pronunciation of the months of the year. If you have any doubts about how to learn pronunciation you can see this video in the card above. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

Now, there are two acceptable ways of saying the dates: You can say twenty and then the number although, with the years before two thousand and ten you want to say o9 We’ll say twenty o eight, twenty o nine, twenty ten. Otherwise, if you say twenty nine, it sounds like the number 29. So, you need to say twenty o nine. I have a prefer to say the full number. I like to say: two thousand and seventeen.

The important thing that you must remember is the ‘and’. It is absolutely essential that you include the ‘and’ when you say a date starting with the year 2000. two thousand and one (2001), two thousand and ten (2010), two thousand and seventeen (2017). Now, did you hear I say n, n, I just add an extra syllable and go in, in two thousand and one, two thousand and seventeen so I’m using the schwa sound two thousand and seventeen, two thousand and twelve.

So, there you have it! So there you have it, the definitive guide on how to read dates in English! I hope that was usefull for you, I hope you learned something.