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For this grammar refresh, we're going to look at the different ways that English speaking countries.

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Present their dates or what we call date format.

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But really, there are three different ways that you will see dates in presented.

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The first way is year, month and then day.

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But they'll say nineteen ninety six, April 20 to April, twenty second here, Monday, the other way

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you'll see it is a month here on the 22nd of April.

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Nineteen ninety six to a one year.

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And then the third way is month, day, year.

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So then you'll see it as April 22nd, nineteen ninety six.

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These are the three different ways you'll see it and it's going to change depending on which type of

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English or which country you're saying or writing is data.

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So here we're going to focus on British English and American English, because these are the two major

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ones in British English, you will write a the date and by date we mean the day in the month.

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So it will be the 2nd of June.

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So you have the 2nd of June to say, oh, it's on the 2nd of June.

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Where in American English we we write or say a month, then the date, and by date we mean the date

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of June 2nd.

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So it's on June 2nd, so you can see the difference, right?

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A British English and say, oh, my birthday is on the 2nd of June.

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American English, we would say my birthday is on June 2nd.

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But slightly different, but, you know, these are things you have to pay attention to.

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You really want to become fluent and sound like a real native speaker.

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Now, here we just have a chart of the different countries that use one of these three data format,

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and you can see that it says either why M.D. or D.M. y y means the year end means the month and D means

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the day.

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So, no, not important.

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You memorize this because, again, if you're learning English, most likely you want to focus or you're

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learning either to speak American English or British English.

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So we already went over how that is formatted.

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But you can pause this and take a look at which countries use which format.

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You'll see that some countries.

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It was multiple formats, so it can be even more confusing.