Prononsiation of numbers in English I've been listening audiofile and had to answer on questions based on this audio. The bulk of my answers were right except those ones where the numbers were involved. Later I try showing you sounds by means of letters: 1. First of all. Number 9 (nine). A woman who had spoken in this audio spoke quite clear and pleasantly. But she pronounced "nine" like "noyn". I was relistening this episode again and again and couldn't recognize this number to be certainly sure (of course I checked the transcript later, but nonetheless) 2. Second, about nulls. When I deal with such numbers as 0.75 or simple 0 I expect people to say either "null" or "ou". But here was something like "Not" - "Not point seventy-five". What is that? Why? ))) And it wasn't any kind of a fancy accent. All other words were spoken in clear British English or near. 3. And the last one. 1983. We have "nineteen eighty-three" but is so much close to "nineteen ninety-three" because of the last letter N in "nineteeN". Though I've been listening it again right now while writing this text and I can say that after one day passed I hear 1983 more distinctly. Well. I don't complain. Just wonder. More practice is needed ))) As usual )))

Past Simple or Past Perfect? How could I translate the following from Russian: Когда он услышал, что его сын плачет, он встал и пошел в детскую комнату When he heard his son crying he raised and went to the nursery. or When he had heard his son crying he raised and went to the nursery. I'm always confused with simultaneous actions. On one hand these two actions (hear and raise) could be at the same time. "I heard the cry and went to see". But on the other hand here could be a sequence like "After I had heard I went to see" What is correct?

Enjoy myself What does percisely phrase "Enjoy myself" means? Does it mean that I'm proud of myself? Or does it mean that I feel good and enjoy the situation around?

Programming and importance of refactoring - how to convience the others? Hi to everybody! A'm a programmer (.net) and right now I do a great refacoting in my project. It means that I rearrange my code in the way which it should be more readable and understandable for other team members. But the subject of the discussion is following: how can you manage to convince your team or your boss to let you start the refactoring process? Because refactoring doesn't produce new features. But it hurts every time when you have to deal with some parts of code that were written previously and don't fit to current situation. What are your stories?