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Hi, guys! And welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker
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and today we're going to talk about a very confusing set of words:
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travel, traveling, trip, journey, tour, voyage and cruise. OMG!
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So let's get to the bottom of this and try to understand the difference.
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First of all let's talk about the word travel, it is mostly used as a verb
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and it means to go from one place to another, to move from one place to another.
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In other words it means to make a journey usually over a long distance.
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After graduating I am planning to travel across Europe.
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You can use expressions like to travel first class, to travel light,
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that is having almost no luggage or to travel abroad.
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Travel can also be used as an adjective,
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that's why you can use expressions like a travel agency, a travel agent, travel expenses, and things like that.
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When travel is used as a noun it presupposes an act of traveling, going from one place to another.
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My husband and I share a love of literature, food and travel.
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They offer a 10% discount on rail travel for students.
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You can also say on air travel, on foreign travel.
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Traveling is also a general term and it refers to the activity of travel.
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I love the work but I hate the travelling involved. The job involves a great deal of traveling.
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Traveling is also used as a participle and you can use expressions like a traveling exhibit.
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And now let's move on to the second word - trip.
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It can be used as a noun, mostly it is used as a noun
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and it means a journey in which you go to another place,
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and usually this journey takes a rather short period of time.
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It's a short journey and you definitely come back.
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So you go to some place and you come back, you take a trip.
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The most frustrating thing about these words is that when you try to find the definition of a certain word
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in a dictionary you find the other word, like a journey, inside this definition.
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The trip from York to New Castle takes about an hour by train.
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We are going on a trip to Norway this summer. Summer? Really?
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You can use expressions like a round trip, a business trip, a shopping trip, a school trip, a trip abroad.
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The trip went well. So you can take a trip for business or for pleasure.
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Which one do you prefer? Can you do both at the same time?
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Be careful, if you use trip as a verb, it has a slightly different meaning.
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It means to lose your balance after knocking your foot against something.
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She tripped and fell down.
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Now let's move on to the word journey. As a noun journey means the act of traveling
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from one place to another especially in a vehicle.
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And here we usually mean the time and the distance you cover when you move from one place to another.
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I love going on long journeys.
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How long did your journey take?
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You can use 'journey' a figurative meaning and say something like this:
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A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Wise!
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There's also a very popular set expression - have a safe journey, have a comfortable journey.
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As for the word tour it means visiting many places on a trip.
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We went on a tour to Spain last summer, it was magical! Have you ever been on a tour?
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This word can also be used as a verb. I toured Europe with my friends.
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Now when we talk about the word voyage it is a long journey on a ship.
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His second voyage led to the discovery of several Caribbean islands.
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We are talking about Christopher Columbus here, right?
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And this word, voyage, can also be used as a verb.
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And finally cruise, it is a tour on a ship. This word can also be used as a verb.
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We cruised all around Bodensee last summer. Okay that's it! let's quickly refresh our memory.
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Travel is a general term, means going from one place to another usually for a long time.
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It can be used as a verb too. Traveling is also a very general term
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and it presupposes the activity of traveling.
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Trip is a short journey, you go somewhere and you come back, a short trip.
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Journey is the time and distance you cover when you travel somewhere.
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Voyage is a long journey on a ship. Tour is a trip on which you visit many places.
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Cruise is a tour on a ship. Okay that's it! I hope that today we have cleared things out
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and now you understand the difference between all these words a little bit better.
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