You know your numbers, but real life puts them in special patterns. A cashier says "four ninety-nine," a friend says "Let's meet at ten of," and a form says 10/3. Learners often translate directly and say "six and thirty" for 6:30, "the three of October" for a date, or "one thousand nine hundred ninety-five" for a year. In this episode: • Prices • Times • Dates and ordinals • Years, addresses and rough numbers • Invented scene: planning the weekend • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: $4.99 — four ninety-nine (casual); four dollars and ninety-nine cents (careful) $1.50 — a dollar fifty (neutral); a buck fifty (casual) $20 — twenty dollars (neutral); twenty bucks (casual) $32.50 — thirty-two fifty a quarter — 25 cents a dime — 10 cents a nickel — 5 cents a penny — 1 cent half off — 50 percent cheaper It's on sale. — it costs less than usual How much is it? — asking the price (neutral) It came to thirty-two fifty. — the total was $32.50 (casual) 6:30 — six-thirty 6:15 — six-fifteen, quarter after six, or quarter past six 5:50 — five-fifty, ten of six, or ten to six 7:00 — seven, or seven o'clock (uh-KLAHK) noon — 12 in the middle of the day midnight — 12 at night a.m. (AY-EM) — after midnight and before noon p.m. (PEE-EM) — after noon and before midnight at seven in the morning, at nine at night — another way to show a.m. and p.m. at like seven-ish — around seven, not exact (casual) twelfth (TWELFTH) — 12th twentieth (TWEN-ee-ith) — 20th twenty-first — 21st twenty-third — 23rd thirty-first — 31st October third — say "third," not "three" Season 2 · Real American English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — accent, everyday grammar, prepositions, articles, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.