travel, trip, journey and voyage. Words that are often confused.

Travel, is usually a verb

for example when I travel I always take a camera

Sometimes we can use travel as a compound noun

for example, business travel or air travel.

We can also use travel as a plural noun

for example, he wrote a book about his travels across Africa.

However, we don't use travel as a singular noun, do not say "last weekend I had a good travel".

The word journey means going from one place to another.

We can use journey to talk about long distance...Our journey to Australia took 20 hours.

or for a short distance.... this afternoon I'm going to make a journey across Paris on my kick scooter.

We use trip to talk about more than one journey and the time you spend in a place.

So for example, we spent one month in London, it was a great trip.

We ask "how was your business trip?",

because we are interested in what happened at the important meeting and not in the journey.

A voyage is a journey we make by boat or in space. The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.

That's it....more English language videos coming soon.