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Speaker 1: I'm planning on moving at the end of next month,

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and I've been trying to decide what I'm going to take.

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I know I need to take my computer and this microphone,

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that's for sure, but I'm only allowed to bring two

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suitcases on the plane, so I really need to make

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a decision soon.

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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 seven eighty seven.

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Is it bring or take? Bring and take? Both of

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these words can be used in English to talk talk

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about moving something or someone from place to place. Sounds

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simple enough, right, well, believe it or not, these two

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words tend to cause headaches for a lot of English learners.

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For today's podcast English Lesson, let's have a look at

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how we use bring and take in everyday English. Let's

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look at bring first. Keep in mind that bring is

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an irregular verb, and the three parts are bring, brought,

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and brought. Now, in some conversations, movies or TV shows,

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you may hear someone say brang or brung, like I

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brang my guitar to the party last night, or Jane

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brung some donuts to the meeting. Well, brang and brung

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are non standard forms of brought and are considered like

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colloquial or a local dialect, like a lot of slang

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that I talk about here on the podcast. Brang and

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brong are good to know, but I can't recommend using them.

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Some native speakers feel that such language sounds well uneducated.

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So just remember it's bring, brought, and brought. My dictionary

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says that bring means to go with something or someone

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to a place. Let me say that again, Bring means

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to go with something or someone to a place. When

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you go to the airport, you bring your passport or

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your ID. You probably bring a suitcase or a bag too,

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So basically, you can bring something to a place, and

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as such, the nuance with bring is on the final location.

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We bring something somewhere, and quite often with bring, we

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don't mention where the thing came from. Like I brought

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a bottle of wine to the party. I didn't mention

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where I got the wine. I just said that I

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brought it to the party. These days, if you want

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to rent a car, you need to bring two forms

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of ID to the car rental place. Again, bring your

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ID to the rental place. I never mentioned the original location,

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So what about take? Okay? First of all, like bring,

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take is also an irregular verb, and the three parts

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our take, took, and taken. I'm not familiar with any

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colloquial or slang words used to mean take. And when

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it comes to using take, the nuance is the original

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location and not the destination. You can take something from

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a place, like what happened to me today when I

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left the office. I forgot to take my keys. Yikes,

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it's gonna be a hassle to open up tomorrow morning.

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The point of reference here is the office. That's where

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the keys are because I forgot to take them. And

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I just watched the weather forecast for tomorrow. They said

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it's going to rain tomorrow. So for sure, I'm going

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to take my umbrella. Now, I know what you're thinking.

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Can't I also say I'm going to bring my umbrella?

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Of course you can, But remember it depends on the context.

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As I often say, context is king I'm at home

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now and it looks like it's gonna rain. I'm gonna

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take my umbrella. I never mentioned where I'm going. I

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just said I'm gonna take my umbrella. Let's look at

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the situation from a different context. The forecast said it's

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gonna rain this evening. I think I'll bring my umbrella

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with me to the office. This way, I don't get

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wet when I walk from there to the subway on

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the way home. I'll bring my umbrella to the office.

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Since I mentioned the destination, I used bring. That's the context.

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So to sum up, you can use take when you

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refer to the original location of something, and you can

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use bring when you mentioned the destination. And by the way,

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this idea of bring and take works the same with people.

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Jack always takes his wife when he goes on a

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business trip. It seems that she likes shopping and she

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always brings a lot of stuff home with her. And

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here's one last idea for today. You can also use

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bring when you want or need something. You can either

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say bring me something or bring something to me, like

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can you bring me a drink when you go to

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the kitchen. Oh, and we're having a party on Friday,

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can you bring me that book I lend you. In

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situations like this, you can't use take, keep in mind.

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The best way to remember vocabulary 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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