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Full video: What's the difference between travel, journey, trip and voyage?

Course: Travel, culture and local lifeSection: Travel, trip, journey and voyageSubtitles: en

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hello and welcome to let them talk today

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we're going to talk about the difference

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between travel trip journey and Voyage

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uh words that are often

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confused okay so travel is usually a

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verb for example when I travel I usually

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take a camera sometimes we can use

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travel as a compound noun

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uh for example business travel or air

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travel we can also use travel as a

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plural noun for

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example he wrote a book about his

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travels across Africa however we don't

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use travel as a singular noun so don't

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say last weekend I had a good travel

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that's not

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right the word Journey means going from

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one place to another with we can use

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journey to talk about long distance our

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journey to Australia took us 20 hours or

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for short distance this afternoon I'm

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going to make a journey across Paris on

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my Kick Scooter we used trip to talk

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about more than one journey and the time

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you spend in a place so for example we

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spent one month in London it was a great

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trip we ask how's your business trip

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because we're interested in what

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happened at the important meeting and

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not in the journey going there and

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coming

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back Voyage is a journey made by boat or

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in space so for example the Titanic sank

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on its maiden

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voyage that's

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it more English language videos coming

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soon

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