Financial industry is most familiar with the most sensitive is the "number", Chinese and English numbers are not the same, the Chinese say "1 million", the English said "one hundred million" (100 millions), the financial people should be familiar with this difference, but also can understand the foreign population said the English numerals, That is the first step in the foundation of financial English. By practicing this, you can break the magic spell of the Chinese and English numerals in just a short time, so that you can catchy.
First of all, you have to repeat the formula, from left to right, from right to left, read loud to the back:
Spend 60 minutes repeating the above formula, and then pick up a copy of the financial report, start to circle all the numbers, such as the number of numbers, the NASDAQ index, listed Enterprise financial report, try to see if you can use the English flow few laps all the numbers.
How do you express the small numbers when you have finished practicing the big numbers?
The reading method of the small numbers
4.329: Four points three the nine small number with "point", and the number of numbers to be read.
0.36 said: (zero) point three six decimal points before the number of words if "0" omitted to read.
The method of reading fractions
1/3 says: One-third The denominator to use the ordinal number.
1/2 said: A/one Half
3/4 said: three quarters
2/3 says: The two-thirds molecule is not 1, the order number is to use a complex.
16/458 said: Sixteen over four hundred and fifty eight too long, with the word "over".
Percentage of the Reading method
50% said: Fifty percent
0.5% says: (zero) point five percent
13.05% said: Thirteen point zero five percent
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