How do you say the year names in English?

3 years ago

My students sometimes find the English names of the years confusing, and often, a direct translation of their native language names for the years is different to how most native English speakers would say it. 

Here's how I do it:

the year that I was born - 'nineteen eighty-one'
the title of a famous song by Prince - 'nineteen ninety-nine'
the year that people celebrated the new millennium - 'two thousand'
the year of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey movie title - 'two thousand and one'
the year that Apple released the first iPad - 'twenty ten'
the year of the London Olympics - 'twenty twelve'
the year that many of us wish we could forget - 'twenty twenty'
this year - 'twenty twenty-one'
I hope this is helpful!