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Pronunciation of Numbers
Listen to the videos to practice some common numbers that our private students often need.
Number
| three |
| twenty |
| thirty, forty, seventy, ninety |
| one, once |
| dollar |
| a hundred one hundred |
| 101 |
| 120 |
| 301 |
| million, billion, trillion |
| 1.2 million |
| $14.95 |
| bucks |
| debt |
Pronunciation
| thur-ree — give yourself time to move from TH to R |
| tweny — T is usually silent |
| the T’s have a D sound |
| wun, wuns |
| DO-lur – use a short O as in hotand reduce the A |
| u-hundred — A has a short U sound (the schwa) |
| u hundred ‘n wun wun hundred ‘n wun wun hundred wun wun oh wun |
| u hundred ‘n tweny wun hundred ‘n tweny wun hundred tweny wun tweny |
| three hundred ‘n wun three hundred wun three oh wun |
| mil-yun, bil-yun, tril-yun |
| wun point too mil-yun |
| fourteen ninety-five |
| use for casual English |
| debt — the B is silent |
Practice
| three, thirteen, thirty |
| twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three |
| thirteen, thirty, fourteen, forty, seventeen, seventy, nineteen, ninety |
| We meet once a week. |
| That’ll be 20 dollars and 75 cents. It’s twenty-seventy-five.* *most common use when there is change, but sometimes people say it the long way. |
| It’s a hundred dollars. It’s one hundred dollars. * note the difference in stress |
| It’s a hundred and one dollars. It’s one hundred and one dollars. It’s one hundred one dollars. The appartment number is 101. |
| It’s a hundred and twenty dollars. it’s one hundred and twenty dollars. it’s one hundred twenty dollars. Her address is 120 East Main Street. |
| That’ll be three hundred and one dollars. That’ll be three hundred one dollars. Go to suite 301. |
| They’re millionaires. He’s a billionaire. |
| That house costs 1.2 million dollars. |
| It’s $14.95. That’ll be fourteen dollars and ninety-five cents. |
| What do I owe you? You owe me five bucks. |
| Many people have credit card debt. |
Ordinal Numbers: Practice with TH
Watch the video and repeat. Remember that you make the TH sound by placing your tongue under your upper teeth. If the tongue touches the top of your mouth, you will make a D or Z sound instead. When TH is last, it can be hard to hear because the sound is quite soft. So make sure you have the correct positioning.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th … 20th, 30th … 100th, 1000th
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