When people speak they say for example: Her baby was born on January the fourth, two thousand and ten.

Hello Han Yang, The Algorithm for Reading Years says that if there is a thousands’ digit but the hundreds’ digit is zero, you can read the number as “n thousand and x”. So in the case of 2010 it is : 2 thousand and 10 Though uncommon it is possible to read it also as follows: Twenty hundred and 10 OR Twenty 10 As for your alternative reading as in Chinese ,that it is not an acceptable way to pronounce it in English.

Either "two thousand and ten" or "twenty ten." It's actually rather difficult to get the nuance of this one exactly right. For instance, in a story-telling context people tend to say: 'twenty'. Like when the narrator reads: "In the Year 2525 the first Earth Cylon War broke out." Here the narrator would definitely say "twenty-five twenty-five." Why? Because it sounds more interesting. No real grammatical reason. Yet it's harder to find someone who says "In the year twenty-ten (2010)." As a vague rule of thumb: the closer to the current year, the more people use the 'regular' way of pronouncing years; like: "This is the year two-thousand-(and-)ten." Yet, the Russian Revolution started in nineteen-seventeen, and not so much in nineteenhundred seventeen (unless you'd be talking to a historian again).

people say twenty ten and I like it. simple is the best...