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Numbers Contabilidad

Práctica de inglés carrera contaduría

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Numbers Contabilidad

Práctica de inglés carrera contaduría

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Examples

 There are twenty-five people in the room.


 He was the fourteenth person to win the award.
 Six hundred thousand people were left homeless after the
earthquake.
 I must have asked you twenty times to be quiet.
 He went to Israel for the third time this year.

Reading decimals
Read decimals aloud in English by pronouncing the decimal
point as "point", then read each digit individually. Money is
not read this way.

0.73 point seven three

0.05 point zero five

0.6529 point six five two nine

2.95 two point nine five

Reading fractions
Read fractions using the cardinal number for the numerator
and the ordinal number for the denominator, making the
ordinal number plural if the numerator is larger than 1. This
applies to all numbers except for the number 2, which is read
"half" when it is the denominator, and "halves" if there is
more than one.
Written Said

1/3 one third

3/4 three fourths

5/6 five sixths

1/2 one half

3/2 three halves

Pronouncing percentages
Percentages are easy to read aloud in English. Just say the
number and then add the word "percent".

Reading sums of money


To read a sum of money, first read the whole number, then
add the currency name. If there is a decimal, follow with the
decimal pronounced as a whole number, and if coinage has a
name in the currency, add that word at the end. Note that
normal decimals are not read in this way. These rules only
apply to currency.

Pronouncing measurements
Just read out the number, followed by the unit of
measurement, which will often be abbreviated in the written
form.

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Pronouncing years
Reading years in English is relatively complicated. In general,
when the year is a four digit number, read the first two digits
as a whole number, then the second two digits as another
whole number. There are a few exceptions to this rule. Years
that are within the first 100 years of a new millenium can be
read as whole numbers even though they have four digits, or
they can be read as two two-digit numbers. Millennia are
always read as whole numbers because they would be difficult
to pronounce otherwise. New centuries are read as whole
numbers of hundreds. We do not use the word "thousand", at
least not for reading years within the past 1000 years.

Years that have just three digits can be read as a three digit
number, or as a one digit number followed by a two-digit
number. Years that are a two digit number are read as a
whole number. You can precede any year by the words "the
year" to make your meaning clear, and this is common for two
and three digit years. Years before the year 0 are followed by
BC, pronounced as two letters of the alphabet.

Interestingly, these rules apply to reading street addresses as


well.
How to say 0
There are several ways to pronounce the number 0, used in
different contexts. Unfortunately, usage varies between
different English-speaking countries. These pronunciations
apply to American English.

Examples

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