Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 593. The title of today's lesson is the
difference between journey and trip. Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot, do it right now.
All right. Now a journey is basically a long trip in which one travels to another place
over long distances. The longer one travels, and the longer it takes the more likely we will use
this term, especially if one is making many stops and starts along the way. So you know,
it's usually more like you know maybe weeks or months or something like that
or if it's on foot it's more strenuous. You might ... you're more likely to call it a journey too.
All right. Now we got a second meaning for journey here too. A process of evolving or changing over
a period as in, as in a journey of one's life. So this is not a physical journey this is like
you know, your journey through life of learning or changing. All right. That was a good trip.
A trip is an occasion when you go somewhere and come back. Again usually from point A to point B
and back again. So that's your typical trip. The shorter and the more direct of one's act
of traveling, the more likely you will use the term trip. Okay. All right. It's also important to
note sometimes the verbs that we use too. One goes on or makes a journey, , so especially use those
verbs. One does not do a journey, have a journey, arrange or book a journey. Those sound awkward.
Now one goes on makes or takes a trip. So they both use go on and make. And we use take a lot
with a trip. Take a journey sounds a little awkward we're less likely to use that. All right. And
let's look at some examples here. Again with the X this is where you're you're not likely to use
that one. You're likely to use the other one. So I booked a journey
to Hong Kong for the weekend . All right. Maybe a couple of problems here. One it's for the weekend.
It's very short. So that that sounds more like just a trip and depends upon where you're going
to. Like , if you're close by Hong Hong that's doesn't you would you would just say trip here.
And also to book. We don't usually say that you book a journey. A journey sounds like long and
they don't sound like in the the ...there may be many changes in between and you it's hard to put
everything down in in complete detail because there might be a lot of changes. Or you might
want to leave a lot of dates open. So that's why you're less likely to use book. All right. So
with the check here . I booked a trip to Hong Kong for the weekend. That's the one you're more likely
to use. I arranged a journey for us to travel to Europe over the summer. All right . Now here over
the summer is probably long enough for a journey. But again, arrange for the same reason of book,
it sounds a little awkward. We could use the more general term plan. I planned a journey,
you could say that. I planned the journey for us to travel to Europe over the summer
or again the next example here. She went on a trip through the Amazon to research plants for
several months. Okay. Here you're more likely to use journey. One it's very hard you're traveling
through the Amazon. And it's several months and you know, it's probably not very clear
exactly where you're staying and sleeping each night and you're probably stopping and starting
at a lot of different places . So in this case you are much more likely to use "journey" than
the word "trip." All right. Let's continue. She took a journey to that town to go shopping for
the day. All right . Again you're not as likely to use journey. First of all it's for the day. That's
that's kind of too short and you know, you just you just go in there for the day. So it's usually
like a trip. You go. You take a trip to the mall. You take a trip to some place to go shopping.
We're more likely to say that. Okay Good. All right. Now here's the one with the second example
of journey up here. Many Muslims will travel to Mecca as a spiritual trip in their lives or in
their life. Okay. No. You hear you're more likely to. You're likely to say journey. We don't say a
spiritual trip. We'd say spiritual journey and in the same sense here you know you might hear some
sentences somebody is on a soul-searching journey , a self-identity journey. You know , to find out
something about themselves changing evolving. The only other thing to note though is once in a while
we might use journey in a sarcastic way. To make a trip sound longer like you know, it's a pain to
go that far. So you got to be a little careful about that too. But anyway. I hope you got it.
I hope you got a much better feel of when you're more likely to use the word
"journey" and when you're more likely to use the word "trip. " Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.