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Speaker 1: Why don't we go somewhere. You know, a lot of

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people learn English because they love to travel. How about you,

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Whether it's taking a trip through the countryside, a voyage

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across the sea, or an exotic journey to a foreign land.

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I think most people just like to go somewhere. Let's

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dive in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode eight oh one. Travel, trip, journey,

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and voyage. These four words can take you from your

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living room to the ends of the earth and beyond.

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And if you're wondering how you can use this vocabulary,

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then you've landed in the right podcast. So just return

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to your seat and fasten your seat belt as we

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take an adventure into this vocabulary. Our first stop today

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is travel, which can be used as a verb meaning

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to go somewhere. You can travel on business or travel

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for pleasure, like Jake often travels to Europe on business.

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In the nineteen sixties, most Americans like to travel on

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vacation by car. What's the best way to travel where

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you live. By the way, we also use travel as

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a noun, like you need to have a passport and

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sometimes a visa for international travel. In countries like France

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and Japan, domestic travel is made easy by high speed trains.

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Oh yeah, I remember in my last job there was

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a lot of business travel that was fun but hectic

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at the same time. So travel is a verb and

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a noun. But even though travel is used as a noun,

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it's not a place. Sometimes I hear English learners say, oh,

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I want to go to travel, but this is not

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very natural in English. It's better to say I want

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to travel, or you can go on a trip. The

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noun trip means going somewhere and then returning, and there

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are a lot of verbs you can use with trip.

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You can go on a trip, take a trip, and

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even have a trip like Joe took a trip to

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Rome he loved it, And I'm going on a trip

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to Japan at the end of this month. That's going

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to be an adventure for sure. Oh yeah, and my

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friend Chris is planning a two week trip to Central

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Europe next year. By the way, sometimes I hear English

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learners say I want to go to a trip, but

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that isn't natural. In English, you can say I want

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to go on a trip, and using go on is

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a pretty common way to speak about travel too. You

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can go on a trip, go on a business trip,

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go on a cruise, go on a safari, go on

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a vacation, and even go on a journey, a journey,

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I'm glad you asked. A journey is similar to a trip,

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like taking a journey is well going somewhere, but the

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word journey has the nuance that you'll be traveling for

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a long amount of time and traveling to some place

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far away. In the eighteen eighties, a journey on the

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Orient Express from Paris to Constantinople took around seventy six hours.

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And who can forget the classic nineteen eighty one movie

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The Raiders of the Lost Arc. That movie took Indiana

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Jones played by Harrison Ford, on a journey from Peru

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to the USA, Nepal, and eventually Egypt. Now that was

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a journey, especially the voyage on on that pirate ship,

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and that brings us to voyage. A voyage is like

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a journey in that it's traveling for a long amount

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of time and traveling to someplace far away. But the

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word voyage is basically used when we talk about traveling

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by sea or in space. You remember the story of

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the Titanic, don't you. In those days, the voyage from

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Europe to America took about five days. That must have

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been a tough way to travel, don't you think. And

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according to modern scientists, the voyage from Earth to the

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planet Mars would take about fifteen months one way. Boy,

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is that a long commute to work? Keep in mind,

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the best way to remember English like this and any

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other word or phrase in English, is to take that

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word or phrase, write it in a sentence that's true

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for you or true in your world, and then memorize

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oh one. Remember learning another language is not easy, but

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it's not in possible, and I'm here to help you

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on your journey.

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