Have you checked Skype and other VoIP services? Clouditalia should provide something that could be helpful for tou: http://www.clouditalia.com/index.php/en/offer/voice-services/virtual-phone Unfortunately, they are not free More on reddit.com

Tricky question! Let me give all the info that come to my mind First of all, let's drop the "million" and talk about regular decimal numbers. In Italy (and possibly in Europe?) we use a comma where you use a point. So we write 1,5 instead of 1.5. The point is our thousands divider character, so if you write 123,456.789 we write 123.456,789. Confusing, isn't it? :) When doing math, or when you want to be really precise about the number, you pronounce the comma. "Uno virgola cinque". All of us use calculators and computer programs made with the US notation that uses the point, so "uno punto cinque" is understandable as well. Informally you can use "e" ("and") in place of the comma. "Uno e cinque" is not unheard of. This works best with money, Euros and cents. 2,40 € = "due euro e quaranta". Note that we put our Euro symbol at the end. For millions, I would pronounce your example as "Un milione e cinque", although in English you use this kind of notation for big numbers more than we do in Italian. I think one of the most common ways to say this number would be fully: "Un milione e cinquecentomila". In the specific case of .5 the best sentence is "un milione e mezzo" = "one million and a half" but that doesn't work for any other number after the point. More on reddit.com

The word seventeen, composed of dice, a variant of ten in composite numbers, and of seven, derives from the Latin decem ac septem, "ten and seven"; As the conjunction ac fell into popular speech, people began to say decem septem more simply More on reddit.com

Same here. And when I'm reading a text out loud in a foreign language (other than english at least) it's hard and takes a relatively long practice time to not just read it in my native language. More on reddit.com