How native speakers reading phone numbers
First tasks of IELTS Listening test almost always include phone numbers in dialogues.
I want to make web-application for phone listening training, but for this I need examples of how native speaker read phone numbers.
Do you read every single digit separately or not? How do you read digit *0*? Zero or "oh"?
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0800 xxxxxxx = oh eight hundred
0171 xxxxxxx = oh one seven one
the rest of the digits are generally said individually, except you may say double seven for 77 or triple seven, or even 600 six hundred if there's a double 0. A lot of it comes down to personal preference. Personally I say zero even at the start of the phone number but this is less common.
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It differs from place to place and person to person but it's not uncommon to hear 0800 being read as "oh eight hundred" or 0845 as "oh eight four five" here in the UK.
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