For this grammar refresh, we're going to look at the different ways that English speaking countries.
Present their dates or what we call date format.
But really, there are three different ways that you will see dates in presented.
The first way is year, month and then day.
But they'll say nineteen ninety six, April 20 to April, twenty second here, Monday, the other way
you'll see it is a month here on the 22nd of April.
Nineteen ninety six to a one year.
And then the third way is month, day, year.
So then you'll see it as April 22nd, nineteen ninety six.
These are the three different ways you'll see it and it's going to change depending on which type of
English or which country you're saying or writing is data.
So here we're going to focus on British English and American English, because these are the two major
ones in British English, you will write a the date and by date we mean the day in the month.
So it will be the 2nd of June.
So you have the 2nd of June to say, oh, it's on the 2nd of June.
Where in American English we we write or say a month, then the date, and by date we mean the date
of June 2nd.
So it's on June 2nd, so you can see the difference, right?
A British English and say, oh, my birthday is on the 2nd of June.
American English, we would say my birthday is on June 2nd.
But slightly different, but, you know, these are things you have to pay attention to.
You really want to become fluent and sound like a real native speaker.
Now, here we just have a chart of the different countries that use one of these three data format,
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
the day.
So, no, not important.
You memorize this because, again, if you're learning English, most likely you want to focus or you're
learning either to speak American English or British English.
So we already went over how that is formatted.
But you can pause this and take a look at which countries use which format.
You'll see that some countries.
It was multiple formats, so it can be even more confusing.