Lesson 1
Saying full dates
hi i'm vanessa from speak english with vanessa calm let's talk about dates I'm not talking about going on a date I'm talking about the day the month in the year today we're gonn...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Part of Dates and calendar talk
Talking about dates
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Lesson 2
Using “the” with dates
the 8th or you might say it's the 8th it's the 8th or you might say it's Friday the 8th notice in all of these examples the word the comes directly before that ordinal number it...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 3
Using “on” for specific dates
we're talking about the day or you could say when's the meeting with Google it's on the 14th here's a little extra tip though unlike in which we're going to talk about in just a...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 4
Using “in” for months and years
we're using in this is required notice notice warning warning this is 100% required in the sentence unlike the previous preposition on which was optional this is 100% necessary...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 5
Saying years with zero
don't say zero usually with dates we say oh and this is a common way to express zero sometimes if you're saying your phone number you might say oh instead of zero you might hear...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 6
Talking about decades and centuries
in the 30s this implies 1950s 1930s I was born in the 80s this implies 1980s what if you want to talk about before 1930s what if you want to talk about 1830s 1790s what can you...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 7
Describing your birthday
remember on is optional so you could also say my birthday is September 4th or if we're talking about the month my birthday is in September my birthday is in 1987 or my birthday...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Language: en
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