Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 25. Today we're going to look at the
difference between authentic and genuine All right this is another one where both
meanings often mean that something is real or true. But again, you know students
will often ask what's really the difference between them. And I'm going to try
to point out some clear differences between these two words. All right so let's
look at the first definition of authentic. Authentic,
something that is known to be true and is of undisputed origin.
Yeah it means that maybe they had some experts who originally checked it.
Checked the document checked the material, whatever it was made out of. If they tested
it with maybe chemicals or they know where it originally came from. In this
sense we say something is authentic. All right so the second one is made or
done in the traditional way. All right this one what we often use it with food. We might
often use it with a style like a style of music or a style of dance or
something like that. All right so let's look at the first note
here. We often use authentic for paintings, documents, or other works of
art that have been proven to be the work of particular people. Yeah again
paintings maybe they check the signature. They they checked the style. They checked
like the stroke that a painter might do to see if that was really his style, the
way he did it. And this way they could tell you know
where it really came from. If it was really him or not.
The same thing with documents like for example the Declaration of Independence.
Maybe they know each signature that was on it and they make sure each signature
is perfectly correct. They might check the paper to make sure you know it was the
original type of paper that was used. Or you know if the age of the paper is
correct. You know to make sure that it's really authentic. To make sure it was the
real one that's that's maybe originally came from the founding fathers. Now so
the origin is very important when we talk about authentic. That it was the actual real one where it originally came from. Or all the
works of art you know it could be other sculptures.
It could be into books or poems or something as long as they were original
works. Okay so let's look at the first example. That painting is an
authentic Picasso again maybe maybe they checked it. Again maybe they checked his
signature. They checked one of his styles and you know if everything kind of looks
okay, they might give it the thumbs up. They might give it the okay that is
that is really a true one. It's an authentic. one. The experts from that auction house
say they have confirmed this painting to be an authentic Vincent van Gogh. Oh yeah
in an auction house, they have to do that. If they or if it turned out not to be
authentic, I think you get in a lot of trouble. um they might get sued. Their
image might get hurt in many ways. So an auction house has to do that. They
have to have their own experts that they hired to check things like this. So again,
this is this is another case where we're much more likely to be using authentic
than genuine in this case. Again especially the where the of origin of
something. Where it came from. That it's actually the real one. All right, so let's
look at that the last example, like I said here. I went to a restaurant
in Chicago that served authentic Taiwanese food they must have hired a
cook who was originally from Taiwan. Uh yeah so this goes back to this idea made
or done in the traditional way. So we use it with food a lot you know that was a
you know that's authentic French food, that's authentic Greek food. We might
use it some music maybe you went to a nightclub and you might say yeah, that band
played authentic salsa music. You know it
sounded like really you know it came from Latin America or somewhere where
salsa music is originally from. In that sense we say that it is authentic. It's
done or made in the traditional way. Yes so that's the way we look at authentic. In that sort of sense.
and there's two ways to look at it. So done or made in the
original way or the like origin of where it comes from. All right so let's look at genuine. Genuine also means real , not fake or artificial.
Although when it's artificial probably the focus is more on the materials to make
sure that the materials are real materials, not so much the origin where
it originally started or where it originally came from. Okay and we also
use it with honest or sincere. Yeah here I'll also give some examples, especially
relating to feelings. We usually use genuine as opposed to authentic when it
comes to feelings All right so let's take a look at it all. Let's take a look at
genuine. Oh let's look at this note. The word genuine is all been used in ads, to let
someone know that the item is not artificial. That it's not fake. It's not
synthetic it's not made in a laboratory. If we are describing feelings, we will
use genuine not authentic. Good I made that point before. Let's look at the
examples. That belt is made of genuine leather. All right this is in the ads. This
is in advertisements to let people know that the material that's something consists of or was made of is the real material.
It hasn't been mixed with other things. So in that sense, we use it. So often hear genuine leather genuine. Genuine silk is another one. You know that kimono is made
of genuine silk. That tie is made of genuine silk. That stone is a genuine
amber. . It means you know it's not fake it's not synthetic it's not made in a
laboratory. So in this sense we use genuine especially with things to prove
that they are not artificial and slightly different than the authentic
where you know the origin is more important and maybe
that you know the person who made it is really the real person who made it so
with authentic that's more the focus. Here with genuine the materials that
something is made up is more of the focus. Okay all right. Let's look at
another example. Jesse has her diamond ring appraised and
found out it was not a genuine diamond. Again the material is not right That
would be very sad for some woman to find this out. I don't know um where maybe her
boyfriend at that time or maybe who is possibly her husband now. Where he got the
ring uh whether somebody deceived him or tricked him or you know maybe he wasn't
completely truthful with her who knows. But out like they say here it turned out to
the cubic zirconia. Yeah we know that a lot of these artificial diamonds they
can make them to look very very real if you almost seem to be an expert to tell
to be able to tell the difference. Or a gemologist. You need to be somebody who can
study it with a microscope. Basically, um okay and let's look at the last
example here. That was a heart- felt genuine apology. Again this is a good
feeling. um yeah we could say she genuinely loves you. It would be really
weird to say she authentically loves you. That doesn't fit. In this case we definitely
would use genuine. She has genuine feelings for you. We wouldn't say she has
authentic feelings for you. That would be really kind of strange. Okay well I hope
that clarifies it. I hope you can really clearly see a difference in the usages now
between authentic and genuine. Thank you for your time.
Bye-bye.