If you go to the United States on summer vacation, it might be helpful to know some little differences that can cause confusion.
Unlike a Spanish calendar, the first day on an American one is Sunday NOT Monday, and the last one is Saturday NOT Sunday!
Also, it’s more common for us to say and write the month before the day!
For example: 5/10 is NOT the fifth of October BUT May tenth!
If you’re going shopping, as I imagine you will, it’s important not to confuse periods, or points, and commas. Their use is just the opposite of how you Spaniards use them. We use commas to indicate thousands, and periods before fractions. And we do NOT use commas or periods in years in order to avoid confusion.
For example:
19.99 = nineteen (point) ninety-nine
1,999 = one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine
1999 = (the year) nineteen, ninety-nine
Well, I hope that avoids some confusion for you!
1 comment:
And Time zone changes are also something to consider. You may have been driving to reach at a certain hour and find that the site (in my case was a national park) was closed because it was an hour later.
I would appreciate correction to the comments.
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