Why numbers are difficult

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experienced

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interpreters and even they said that

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understanding numbers quickly could

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often be a challenge before that I just

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thought that I found it hard in my

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foreign languages because I hadn't done

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enough listening practice and that one

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day it would be just as easy as in my

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native language but no it's actually

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quite rare for that to happen however

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that doesn't mean that you can't improve

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with practice and that is what we are

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going to do today this is how it will

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work I'm going to read out sentences

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that each have a number in them I'm not

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just going to read out a list of numbers

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because I don't think that's very

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realistic normally when we hear numbers

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they are surrounded by other words so

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what I want you to do is get a piece of

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paper and write 1 to 10 two times we are

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going to do two sets of 10 pause the

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video here if you need to then when I

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read out a sentence I want you to write

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the number as well as what is being

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counted