Is the German way of saying numbers different than English?

Answer 1

In modern English usage, yes. We say twenty-four, while in German that is four-and-twenty.

However, older English usage did it the German way, as in the nursery rhyme

Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye

Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

Of course, in German, it is all jammed together into a single word with no hyphens: vierundzwanzig