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listening skill 1（听的技能 1） [how to listen to numbers in VOA] Here mainly on more than four figures and percentage points with the problem of listening. In the process of listening to VOA English radio, listeners often encounter many numbers, which is a great obstacle for English learners in our country, especially for four digit numbers. The reason is that the counting units in English and Chinese are not exactly the same as in the two languages. The biggest difference between them is: million and million of the two count unit, Chinese English and English; million (million) and billion (one billion) of the two counting unit. The Chinese is in front of them plus ten, hundred, thousand and a composite counting unit. Different representation of numbers between English and Chinese and the formation of. In English and Chinese, the counting units of two languages are inconsistent. In every four digits of English, the number of units in Chinese must be changed every five digits, which forms a different representation of more than four digits. These different representations bring great difficulties to English learners, especially those broadcasting English listeners who identify the quantitative units and receive information. How can we overcome this difficulty and correctly and accurately listen to the numbers in English news? According to our listening practice, we find that the following steps are easier to listen to: 1) according to the American English every four digits to change the counting unit every three digits of customary international rules, with a comma separated by counting, that more than 1000 of the number: first from the forward after every three digit number, plus one , first , No. thousand, second and before the number is million, third, before the billion (in the English speaking countries in Britain is thousand million), then a section of said. For example: 123456895167, read into one hundred (and) twenty three billion four hundred (and) fifty-six mill