Say & Write Numbers in English: currencies, fractions, percentages, decimals, large numbers

Hello, and welcome back to engVid.

My name is Benjamin.

In today's lesson, we are going to be looking

at how to correctly say big numbers, decimals,

fractions, percentages, currencies, basically all things to do with numbers.

Now, it's absolutely essential that if you are working in business, if you are buying

and selling things, that you're able to very,

you know, you need to be absolutely fluent

in the language of numbers to be able to successfully operate.

So, I hope this lesson goes some way in helping you to do that.

Okay.

Big numbers.

Now, there's a system here.

That number is 80, 80.

This number, we go, we're basically going this direction.

Sorry, ignore that.

We're not going this direction.

We're going this direction.

So, we have 400 and 80.

This is 80.

This is 400.

So, just imagine you're kind of taking away that bit.

So, if there were two noughts there, it would be 400 and 80.

Yeah?

Here, again, imagine that these are just noughts.

So, that would be, if there are three noughts, then it's 1,000, so 726,480.

So, we don't have another "and" here, 726,000, and then straight in, 480.

Yeah?

So, the "and" is here, 726,480.

Here, again, imagine these are just noughts.

So, we've got 133...

There should be some more zeroes here, I apologize.

Nought, nought, nought, 133,726,480.

I put it all together.

A hundred and...

I'm just imagining noughts.

A hundred and thirty-three million, I'm imagining now these are noughts, 726,480.

Yeah?

Actually, we have one more go at that.

A hundred and thirty-three million, 726, it's

1,000 because I'm imagining three noughts

there, 726,480.

Okay?

I am going to say a number now, and I want you to write it down.

Okay?

So, I'm going to go for 402,280,416.

Now, the problem is I've just forgotten the number.

Right, I'm going to give you a little test now, and I'm going to write it down on my

hand so I don't forget it.

Okay?

Okay?

So, I want you to say this number, right, 1,100,174, 1,100,174 should look something

like this, 1,100,174, 1,100,174.

If you got that right, give yourself a pat on the back.

If not, rewind.

Approximations, so we can often just round things up to make it simpler.

A four-digit number is going to have four numbers.

For example, 4712, yeah, that's a four-digit number.

Right?

So, anything between 1,000 and 9,999 is a four-digit number.

A five-digit number, we're just putting another figure on here.

A six-digit number, we're putting another figure on there.

So, here you've got 471,272, okay?

A seven-figure number is a million or more.

Right, tens of thousands, so tens mean anything between 10 and 99, yeah?

So, tens of thousands, so thousands, we're putting on three noughts at the end, yeah?

Anywhere between 10,000 or colloquial British

English, 10 grand and 99 grand or thousand

if you prefer the formal way.

Hundreds of thousands, okay?

Hundreds of thousands.

Right, just going to get my doobie-doobie-doobie.

Hundred thousand, yeah?

A hundred thousand, a hundred thousand, so

hundreds of thousands would be anywhere from

100,000 to 999,000, hundreds of thousands, okay?

So we've just got one more zero compared to tens of thousands, okay?

I hope that's clear.

You will get an opportunity to practice this with me in a couple of moments' time.

A billion, so there's a million, and I'm adding

on a thousand, you know, three more digits.

Now, there used to be some debate about what

a billion was, and it was different in Europe

compared to North America, but now pretty

much the entire world goes with the American

system of there being ten digits for one billion, yep?

Ten numbers, one, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten, it's a ten-digit

number.

A trillion, adding on another three zeros.

I've never dealt with a trillion.

Anyone out there?

Right, fractions and decimals, so the day before yesterday, or no, yesterday morning

I bought a cherry cake.

It wasn't a very good one, and first of all, I ate a quarter of the cake.

I ate a, not one, a quarter out of four, a quarter of the cake.

Now, we've got a typo here.

It should be 0.25.

I ate 0.25 of the cake.

Obviously, this is the fraction, this is the decimal.

The fraction sounds more casual, yep?

This is kind of more scientific and systematic.

I then had a friend round, Chloe, and we ate some more cherry cake.

By the end of her visit, half of the cake had gone.

0.5 of the cake was remaining.

Then, my friend Billy came round with his tunes, DJ Billy, and by the end of Billy's

trip, visit, we had eaten three-quarters of the cake.

Notice the plural form, a quarter, three-quarters,

so by the end of Billy's visit, 0.75 of the

cake had gone, so when I'm reading decimals,

I just do it number by number by number.

I don't say 0.75, I say 0.75, okay?

Math is not my strong point, so I'm probably

working just as hard as you are back there,

unless you're some sort of mathematical genius.

We say this, yep, the absence of number,

differently in North America compared to UK.

In the US, it's 0, 0, but in the UK, it's either 0, as in nothing is there, or 0, 0,

there's nothing there, 0, yep, it's because it looks like an O, yeah?

O, 0, or 0, 0, sorry.

Finally, percentage.

If in the test after this, the quiz after this lesson, you score, I don't know, let's

say 9 out of 10, expressed as a percentage, so that would be out of 100, that would be

90 per cent.

It's Latin, it means out of 100, per cent, out of 100.

Okay, we're going to look now at how we say

the different currencies, and then we're going

to have some practice of putting all this together.

Currencies.

Talking numbers with money.

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Right, currencies, different countries' financial systems.

Okay, so first of all, we have dollars.

Now, you can see that the symbol is at the beginning of the number, but we say it at

the end.

So, this would be $4,264, or you could be specific about what type of dollar it is.

Is it an American dollar, a Canadian dollar, an Australian dollar?

There are other dollars, like the New Zealand

dollar, so let's practice that, $4,264, Canadian

dollars, $4,264, Australian dollars, okay?

Right, the euro.

The Europeans change things around ever so slightly.

Sometimes you might see that they... or that

they do swap the comma for the full stop.

So, I'm intending this to be 300,000, but they would probably write that like that,

300,000.

Also, I noticed when I was in Spain that they

will put the currency symbol at the end of

the number, okay?

But, if you are writing to a colleague who is

not from Europe, then I would put it there.

300,000 euros, my currency.

The pound, pound sterling, 9,123 pounds.

Yep, it's written like that.

Okay, pounds, cool.

You're very welcome to put some pounds on the

tip button now if you'd like to, if you're

learning something.

Okay, we're going to have a little test.

Here's something I prepared earlier.

I'm going to read the numbers, and I'd like you at home to write them down.

Are you ready?

Got a pen?

Got something to write on?

Number one, 1,194, 1,194.

Number two, 174,892, 174,892.

Number three, 24.051, 24.051.

Number four, 140 dollars, 140 dollars.

Number five, 28 pounds and 44 pence, 28 pounds and 44 pence.

Number six, 714 euros, 714 euros.

Number seven, 0.

Number eight, 44.6%, 44.6%.

Number nine, 1.5 billion, 1.5 billion.

How many noughts does it have?

And lastly, number ten, 67,892, 67,892.

I'm afraid I can't repeat any more questions.

We're going to have a look at the answers.

Now, the first one was 1,194.

Practice saying it with me, 1,194.

Number two was 174,892.

174,892.

Okay, so you've got the ands there and there when you say it.

Number three, 24.051, 24.051.

Okay, number four was 140 dollars, 140 dollars.

Number five, 28 pounds and 44 p.

I didn't tell you about p, but p is less than a pound, okay?

So these are the pennies, the pence.

Number six was 714 euros, 714 euros.

Number seven, nought in the British system, zero in American.

Number eight, 44.6 percent out of 100, 44.6 percent.

Number nine, the billion one, how many zeros are there?

One, and then it's a million.

Okay, just check I've got that right.

Yep, good.

So we've got 1.5 billion, okay?

One and a half billion.

If it was two billion, it'd be two, nought, nought, nought.

Two, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought, nought.

Okay, remember it's a 10-digit number, a billion.

And then number 10, we had 67,892, 67,892.

Add them up, what do you get out of 10?

Okay, I would strongly recommend that you guys have a go at doing the quiz now.

Should be very useful for today's lesson.

Thank you, my subscribers, and I will see you next time in the next video.