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Using a.m. and p.m.

go this is going to be 10:35 p.m. now if there are no numbers after the decimal point if it's simply a zero we don't say anything so in this this case it would be 11: a.m. with...

Course: Weather, places, and travelSection: Telling the timeSubtitles: en

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a

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go this is going to be

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10:35 p.m. now if there are no numbers

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after the decimal point if it's simply a

1:27

zero we don't say anything so in this

1:30

this case it would be 11: a.m. with no

1:34

extra minutes in there now this is the

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sort of digital way of saying numbers in

1:40

English and it's a little bit easier but

1:42

sadly there's the old-fashioned way of

1:45

telling the time in English and we also

1:47

need to know that so when I explain this

1:51

method of telling the time I'm going to

1:53

use the words minute hand which is the

1:56

long hand on the clock and the hour hand

2:00

which is the short hand on the clock now

2:03

we have to imagine that the clock is

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separated into two parts we have one

2:08

method for numbers between 12 and six

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and we have one method between the other

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numbers six and 12 so the right hand

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side of the clock and the left hand side

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of the clock so when the minute hand the

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long hand is between the 12 and the six

2:28

which is on this side of the clock then

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we

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