Practice Listening to English Numbers
Phone numbers, prices and the numbers that sound alike. Hear one, type it, and see at once which digit slipped.
oh four nine one0491five seven five575three two three323
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Topics
- Phone numbers0491 575 323Australian mobiles, landlines and 1300 numbers read digit by digit, with doubles and short messages at higher levels.
- Thirteen vs thirty13 / 30Thirteen or thirty? Fifteen or fifty? Hear the stress that separates the teens from the tens, alone and in sentences.
- Prices and money$4.99Dollars and cents in full and shortened forms, from a few cents to several thousand dollars.
- Large numbers2,500,000Thousands, millions and billions, in full and in short forms such as “two point five million”.
Words that hide digits
| “thirteen” or “thirty”The stress and a final n tell them apart | 13 / 30 |
|---|---|
| “oh”Zero, in a phone number | 0 |
| “double four”One word, two digits | 44 |
| “four ninety-nine”Dollars, then cents, with both words left out | $4.99 |
How it works
- ListenPlay a short clip. Replay as often as you like; replays never count against you.
- TypeEnter the number with your keyboard or your phone's numeric keypad.
- CheckSee at once whether you were right, what was said and where the digits went wrong.
- RepeatFinish a short session, review your mistakes and retry exactly those.