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Speaker 1: Have you ever gone somewhere and then realized you should

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have been somewhere else? Or maybe you went somewhere and

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now you're trying to explain that, but the grammar just

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won't come out right. Don't worry, this happens to a

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lot of English learners. So today we're gonna clear it

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all up.

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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 nine fifty five.

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Went gone or been? What's the real difference? Hey, thanks

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for tuning in. Let me ask you, have you ever

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been to Tokyo? Or or have you gone to Tokyo? Wait?

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Maybe you went there in twenty nineteen. Yeah. I know

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these words all seem similar, and sometimes even native speakers

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mix them up, but there is a pattern, there is

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a logic when we use went, gone and been. So

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today I'm going to break it down for you in

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a clear, simple way with a bunch of examples to

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make it all stick. Let's start with went. This one's easy.

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It's the past of go we use went when the

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action is finished and in the past. For example, you

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can say I went to the mall yesterday. That means

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you were there yesterday and now you're back. You went,

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it's over done. Or like this, they went to Italy

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last summer. They took a trip last summer. Simple past.

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It's all in the past and we're not talking about

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right now. And since it's the simple past tense, when

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you say you went somewhere, you need to say when.

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That's how the simple past works. I went to the

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mall yesterday. They went to Italy last summer. We went

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last Friday. All right, Now, let's move on to bin.

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That's b E e N, but we usually pronounce it

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as bin and not bean. Bin is the past participle

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of the B verb. And we use have bin to

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talk about experience, especially life experience, like I've been to

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eastambul five times. That means during my life up until now,

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I had that experience five times and I'm not there now.

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Using have been means I just had that experience sometimes before.

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Here's another example. Jenny's been to Disneyland twice, maybe when

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she was a kid or maybe recently. The point is

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she had the experience of being there, and unlike using

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the simple past, when you say you have been somewhere,

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you don't say when Jenny's been to Disneyland twice. We

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know that Jenny had that experience, but we have no

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idea when it happened. All we know is that sometime

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twice in her life, Jenny has been to Disneyland. Okay,

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so what about gone? Gone is the past participle of go?

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And here here's the key difference. We have gone when

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the person went there and is still there now like, Hey,

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where's Chuck. Oh, he's gone to the bank. That means

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he left. He's still at the bank and he hasn't

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come back yet. He's gone to the bank, he's not here.

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Now here's another one. My friend Ed has gone to

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Italy for a month. That means he's in Italy now

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the trip is happening. He's still there. Compare that to

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Ed has been to Italy three times. That's about experience.

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You see the difference. So let's break that down. Ed

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went to Italy in twenty nineteen. That's one particular trip

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he took at a particular time he went there. Ed

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has been to Italy three times. That's his experience sometime

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in his life. And then Ed has gone to Italy.

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This means he's not here, he's still in Italy. That's

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how we use gone the trip is in progress. All right.

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One more thing. Sometimes in everyday American English conversation, native

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speakers bend these rules a little, so you might hear

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someone say, oh, I've gone there so many times I

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can't count. Of course, grammatically it's better to say I've

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been there so many times. Right, that's talking about experience.

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But in daily conversation we don't always follow the grammar

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rules exactly. I'm sure that happens in your native language

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as well. Casual conversation is not always like a textbook.

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But keep the rules I talk about here in mind,

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especially if you're taking an exam like Toefel or Ailets

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and hey, keep in mind the best way to remember

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English like this and any other word or phrase in

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English is to take that word or phrase, write it

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in a sentence that's true for you or true in

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your world, and then memorize your sentences. That's how you

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build fluency. Hey, thanks for listening, and remember, learning another

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language is not easy, but it's not impossible. And I'm

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here to help you on your journey.

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Speaker 1: Yes,