Speaker 1: Why don't we go somewhere. You know, a lot of
people learn English because they love to travel. How about you,
Whether it's taking a trip through the countryside, a voyage
across the sea, or an exotic journey to a foreign land.
I think most people just like to go somewhere. Let's
dive in.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode eight oh one. Travel, trip, journey,
and voyage. These four words can take you from your
living room to the ends of the earth and beyond.
And if you're wondering how you can use this vocabulary,
then you've landed in the right podcast. So just return
to your seat and fasten your seat belt as we
take an adventure into this vocabulary. Our first stop today
is travel, which can be used as a verb meaning
to go somewhere. You can travel on business or travel
for pleasure, like Jake often travels to Europe on business.
In the nineteen sixties, most Americans like to travel on
vacation by car. What's the best way to travel where
you live. By the way, we also use travel as
a noun, like you need to have a passport and
sometimes a visa for international travel. In countries like France
and Japan, domestic travel is made easy by high speed trains.
Oh yeah, I remember in my last job there was
a lot of business travel that was fun but hectic
at the same time. So travel is a verb and
a noun. But even though travel is used as a noun,
it's not a place. Sometimes I hear English learners say, oh,
I want to go to travel, but this is not
very natural in English. It's better to say I want
to travel, or you can go on a trip. The
noun trip means going somewhere and then returning, and there
are a lot of verbs you can use with trip.
You can go on a trip, take a trip, and
even have a trip like Joe took a trip to
Rome he loved it, And I'm going on a trip
to Japan at the end of this month. That's going
to be an adventure for sure. Oh yeah, and my
friend Chris is planning a two week trip to Central
Europe next year. By the way, sometimes I hear English
learners say I want to go to a trip, but
that isn't natural. In English, you can say I want
to go on a trip, and using go on is
a pretty common way to speak about travel too. You
can go on a trip, go on a business trip,
go on a cruise, go on a safari, go on
a vacation, and even go on a journey, a journey,
I'm glad you asked. A journey is similar to a trip,
like taking a journey is well going somewhere, but the
word journey has the nuance that you'll be traveling for
a long amount of time and traveling to some place
far away. In the eighteen eighties, a journey on the
Orient Express from Paris to Constantinople took around seventy six hours.
And who can forget the classic nineteen eighty one movie
The Raiders of the Lost Arc. That movie took Indiana
Jones played by Harrison Ford, on a journey from Peru
to the USA, Nepal, and eventually Egypt. Now that was
a journey, especially the voyage on on that pirate ship,
and that brings us to voyage. A voyage is like
a journey in that it's traveling for a long amount
of time and traveling to someplace far away. But the
word voyage is basically used when we talk about traveling
by sea or in space. You remember the story of
the Titanic, don't you. In those days, the voyage from
Europe to America took about five days. That must have
been a tough way to travel, don't you think. And
according to modern scientists, the voyage from Earth to the
planet Mars would take about fifteen months one way. Boy,
is that a long commute to work? Keep in mind,
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