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In this video, we're going to look at how to say the years in English.

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Soon you'll be learning about history, which is studying things that happened in the past.

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When we talk about history, we need to say when things happened.

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So we use dates, which can be said as years or centuries.

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The first thing we need to learn is BC and AD.

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BC stands for Before Christ.

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So everything that happened before Christ was born has the letters BC after it.

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Humans first appeared two and a half million years BC.

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AD stands for Anno Domini, the year of our Lord.

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Everything that happens AFTER Christ was born has the letters AD after it.

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So America was discovered in 1492 AD.

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Now you need to learn how to say the years.

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Same dates in English is different to how you say them in Spanish.

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We normally divide the years of four numbers into two parts, so we say 1967, 2011, 1853.

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practice saying these years after me. 1721, 1358, 1647, 1144, 1066, 1493. The only

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years that are different are the years 2000 until 2009. So we say 2000, 2001, 2002 etc.

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Now practice saying some of these numbers. I bet they're much easier for you, aren't

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they? So did you manage them all? Good job! Dates with three numbers are just read as

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a whole number. So we would say four hundred and seventy eight. Four hundred and seventy

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eight. Practice saying these years after me. Five hundred and eleven. Nine hundred and

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eight hundred and thirty-two, a hundred and sixty-seven, eight hundred and sixty-six,

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four hundred and fifty-three. The last rule we have to learn is how to say zero in the

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year. So if the year is 1908 we would say 1908 and 1403. Repeat these after me.

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1904, 1508, 1702, 1101, 1803, 1605. Now we've learned the rules of how to say the

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years in English, so it's time to practice them all again. Are you ready?

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ready? Have a go. 1286, 2020, 1876, 1754, 1570, 1755. You carry on and do the rest on

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your own. Now I hope you're ready to practice saying the years in English.