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miércoles, agosto 17, 2022

People who can speak English acceptably well in Europe / extras

 twitter: @eugenio_fouz


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EXTRAS

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Yeah, exactly (agreement)



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Ten percent 10%


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Cycling is bad for the economy?

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nivel B1

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I am it seems a writer

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determined to learn
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video - learning in the pool 

sábado, diciembre 19, 2020

English videos (@YouTube): daily routines.-BE1 + programming BE1

twitter: @eugenio_fouz


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-Business English 1-

Talking about daily routines 
video (4:48 mins)

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My daily routine
video (2:05 mins)

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My name is Fred
video (1:48 mins) 

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#PDF
tentative programming BE1


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Numbers
video (1:59 mins)

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Count numbers
video (3:40 mins)

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Saying numbers
video (3:03 mins)


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Telephone call
video (5:00 mins)

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Talking on the phone
video (3:22 mins)

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May I speak to Kate?
video (2:05 mins) 

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viernes, diciembre 01, 2017

How to say numbers, percentages, dates in English

twitter: @eugenio_fouz



Samples: 
PRONOUNCING PERCENTAGES
Percentages are easy to read aloud in English. Just say the number and then add the word "percent".
Written
Pronounced
5%
five percent
25%
twenty-five percent
36.25%
thirty-six point two five percent
100%
one hundred percent
400%
four hundred percent

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Another point on the expression "per cent" or "percent"
-via grammarist.com-

"The one-word percent is standard in American English. Percent is not absent from other varieties of English, but most publications still prefer the two-word per cent. The older forms per-centper cent. (per cent followed by a period), and the original per centum have mostly disappeared from the language (although the latter sometimes appears in legal writing).
There is no difference between percent and per cent. Choosing between them is simply a matter of preference."
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miércoles, noviembre 15, 2017

How to write strange numbers in English language

twitter: @eugenio_fouz



Numbers
-via WordReference.com-
1 million, 1 thousand, 1 hundred
11th thousand workers
13 thousand
20K (thousand)
3078 (Three thousand seventy eight), humans left The Earth
500,000 (five hundred thousand)
a couple thousand sales points
a coward dies a thousand deaths.....
a hundred thousand million [of] dollars (of + number) - grammar
a hundred thousand million million
A picture is worth a thousand words
A picture may be worth a thousand words.
A picture paints a thousand words...
A running man in the night can slit a thousand throats
A Smile is worth a thousand words
A thousand = Mil / Un mil - grammar
a thousand and one nights
A Thousand apologies
A thousand billion
A thousand cuts

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one third 1/3
a third 1/3

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Brian Overland
-via Quora.com-
0.5 is five tenths, 0.05 is five hundredths, and so 0.005 is five thousandths.

But this can become tedious. So another way to think of it is: Count the number of zeroes including the zero just to the left of the decimal point. Ten to the power of three is one thousand… which is how we know that 1,000 is one thousand. But two zeroes to the right of the decimal point — added to the first zero just to the left (a total of three) — is also “one thousand,” but now we are dealing in thousandths rather than one thousand.

Yet another way to procede is to 1) Move the decimal point two places to the RIGHT, and then 2) interpret the result as a percentage.

0.005 moved two places to the right is 0.5… which means that 0.005 can also be interpreted as half a percent.

0.005 = 0.5 %

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Forum on numbers
-via yahoo.com-
What's bigger 0.0025 or 0.005?
That aside, .005 is larger. Read the number aloud and it'll become quite apparent. The first number, 0.0025, is read as "Twenty-five ten thousandths", whereas the second number, 0.005, is read as "Five thousandths". 

If this doesn't immediately clear up the issue for you, involve the numbers in thought experiments using imagery: Suppose there are two men who are sitting in front of two piles of chocolate chip cookies. One pile has ten thousand cookies (because .0025 is read as "twenty five THOUSANDths"), the other has a thousand cookies ("five THOUSANDths")

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Forum on numbers
-via forum WordReference.com-
I would say 'minus' informally, 'negative' more formally. For <0>, you could use 'zero', or 'oh' or 'nought' (BrE). In the BrE fashion the digits after the decimal point are read off one by one.

Therefore I might say these:
Minus nought point nought five six six
Negative zero point two four three four
Minus one point oh two

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Some websites on numbers: 

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