Two ways to tell time

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hello everyone it's Hannah here from

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virtually fluent today we are going to

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learn a really important skill in

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English which is telling the time there

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are two different ways to tell the time

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one is relatively easy the other a

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little bit more difficult sadly you need

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to know both of them because native

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speakers use both of these forms of

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telling the time so let's get started

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with those methods for telling the time

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in English

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so we're going to start off with a nice

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simple time like this and we basically

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read all of the numbers individually so

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we start off by saying the whole number

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that is before the decimal point in this

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case four then we say the entire number

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after the decimal point which in this

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case is 20 and then at the end we say

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either a a. if it's in the morning or

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p.m. p.m. if it's in the afternoon

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evening so this particular time would be

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4:20 a.m. what about this time have a

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go