Essential Travel Vocabulary | Improve Your English Speaking from Anywhere

it is so much fun to travel to actually practice  your english and to experience new things but even  

if you can't hop on a plane right now you can  essentially travel by using a vpn and trick the  

internet into thinking that you are somewhere else  i was shocked when i lived abroad when i could not  

access certain videos that i knew i could watch  in the u.s i couldn't listen to certain music that  

i listened to in the u.s simply because it wasn't  available regionally and i want to show you a tool  

that i use when i'm learning a foreign language  or for you if you're in your home country and it's  

not an english-speaking country and you want to  access more information in english if you want to  

actually see more programming more tv  shows more movies in english see when  

i lived in brazil i realized for the first  time in my life you may already know this  

but when you access the internet from another  country you do not get the same results when  

you search for the exact same thing you do not  see the same programs on netflix you cannot even  

access a lot of the same videos because they're  restricted by country or websites there's a lot of  

censorship and there's also a lot of differences  depending on where you are accessing the internet  

in the world but there's a way to get around  that so i finally figured out that there is a  

hack to get around this maybe you know it already  do you use what's called a vpn so i started using  

nordvpn because it allows me to trick my  computer or the internet into thinking that  

i am well anywhere i want to be it's also super  useful with accessing my bank account when i am  

traveling abroad because i can't tell you how many  times my bank has locked my account locked me out  

of my own account so frustrating because it sees  i'm accessing my account from a new country and so  

it's a security feature but the thing is you don't  want to get shut out of your own information right  

so the important thing is to know to use a vpn  i use nordvpn and i'm going to tell you why they  

have an additional threat protection feature that  really makes me feel safe it helps prevent any  

kind of malware harmful websites malicious  ads infected files and even blocks trackers  

even just to protect my own personal information  and my activities i like using nordvpn because  

it's kind of a creepy world out there and you  never know who's watching and what they're going  

to do with that information so not to be paranoid  but i highly recommend that you try and work vpn  

especially because they're giving us a huge  discount click the link in the description to  

learn more you can try it out risk free because  they have a 30-day money-back guarantee now that  

i've shared my tips for tricking the internet into  thinking that you're anywhere you want to be and  

staying safer online let's hand this over to go  natural english teacher ryan who's going to share  

words that you need to know  before you travel so let's go  

hi everyone i'm ryan from go natural english  and today i'm talking about travel vocabulary  

so traveling is one of my five great passions  in my life i love working with kids sports  

learning new languages meeting new people  and traveling and through traveling some  

of the best things i've ever had happen have  occurred i've been to the great wall of china  

i've been to the fos de guasso in brazil i've  met amazing people and i've even fallen in love  

all while traveling so today i want to share with  you some of the most essential words that i use  

when i talk about my adventures and my travels so  that you can talk about your adventures and your  

travels and hey if you like these english tips  that help you become fluent fast consider giving  

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this awesome go natural community all right  let's get after it book a flight you need to book  

a flight so we know book is like reading  but to book the verb means to reserve  

so if you book a flight that means you reserve  a flight after you have your flight so i booked  

a flight to buenos aires now i need to book  accommodation accommodation is a place to sleep  

to reserve a place to sleep like a hotel airbnb  hostel couchsurfing any one of those things all  

accommodation similar to accommodation is to  make a reservation so to make a reservation  

means to reserve the use of something and it  can be anything so to book accommodation is  

specifically to a house or a room to sleep but to  make a reservation can also mean a room but it can  

apply to car rentals or a tour or anything you can  go in a hot air balloon and fly around the city  

but you need to make a reservation so for example  i could say i want to go on the dungeon tour i  

need to make a reservation or if i want to stay at  the luxor hotel in las vegas i need to call or go  

online and make a reservation i've booked a flight  i've found my accommodation i made a reservation  

for a car rental now it's time to fly the verb  that we use to describe this is to take off  

so the plane takes off at 7 am and it lands  at 5 pm so to take off is the plane leaving  

and to land is the plane landing and the  verb to land can be anything that's flying  

and then comes to the ground i could say  the butterfly right there's a butterfly  

the butterfly landed on my shoulder my  plane takes off at 8 00 am and lands  

at 5 pm now you also use these verbs to  describe where and where you're going  

where you come from and where you're going  to so i take off at 7am but i take off from  

new york for example if i leave from new york if i  leave from berlin i can say i take off from berlin  

and then on the other side i say i take off from  berlin i land in i land in singapore so i take off  

from berlin and i land in singapore you take off  from to land in now sometimes you'll be very lucky  

that your flight will not stop the flight will go  from a to b from berlin to singapore but sometimes  

you have to stop somewhere so if i fly from berlin  to singapore but i stop in doha for example in  

qatar that means that i have a connection in  doha so a connection when talking about flights  

means a city that your flight stops in before the  final destination so if i'm going to singapore  

from berlin and i have a connection in doha that  means the plane will fly from berlin to doha  

and then doha to singapore and you can  have even more words to describe this  

so this means you have two flights  berlin doha doha singapore each flight  

is called a leg like a leg like i have an arm and  a leg each part of this is called a leg so the  

first leg of the trip is from berlin to doha  and the second leg is from doha to singapore  

another word for a connection is a layover  a layover is just simply when you have a few  

hours stop in another city so you can say doha  i have a connection in doha or i have a layover  

in doha if it's a very long layover like many  hours this is called a stop over a stop over  

and this just means that you will stay in  that connection city for many hours usually  

more than four hours but before you travel you  need a backpack but not any type of backpack  

a travel backpack so so this is a normal  backpack you can see it's pretty thin it's not  

so big i can open it up about halfway put books  a computer laptop a tablet and that's about it  

not too many things but a travel backpack is  much bigger you have room for lots of clothes  

for a computer for toiletries for packing cubes  for lots of things it's very big and you can put  

everything in there clothes your computer  bathroom stuff and the most important thing  

for a travel backpack is a clam shell or suitcase  style opening this means that the backpack opens  

like a clam it opens really really big because  most backpacks only open halfway but a clam  

opens like if you think of a circle 270 degrees  so there's only one little side that doesn't

open opens all the way and i have all of this room  to put something in and the clamshell opening is  

important because it allows you to access things  quickly and pack very quickly and the best way to  

organize your clothes or your bathroom  things is with packing cubes so a packing  

cube is simply a little bag to organize  your things so in this packing cube i have  

my shirts in this packing cube i have my shorts  and i have more packing cubes for my shoes  

for my socks whatever i need for my dirty clothes  packing cube now the last bag you need is for your  

toiletries now the last bag you need is for  toiletries can you guess what toiletries  

are toiletries are the things that you find in  the bathroom like a toothbrush maybe mouthwash  

toothpaste lotion shampoo these things are all  toiletries and it's a smart idea to put them in  

a clear bag the security will be very happy  when you have them in a clear bag like this  

so you have your reservation you booked  accommodation you have a travel backpack with  

packing cubes toiletries you are ready to go you  take off from buenos aires and you land in paris  

but now you feel really tired why you're feeling  really sleepy this is called jet lag now jet lag  

is the feeling of being hired after you travel and  this is because you change time zone and your body  

is used to a different time zone so sometimes when  i travel from europe to asia i get jet lag i land  

and even though it's sunny i'm so sleepy our next  word is sightsee to sightsee this is a simple verb  

that means to visit or to look around so if i just  arrived in shanghai in china i could say i really  

want to sightsee the downtown or i really want to  sightsee around the people's square to sightsee  

if i'm traveling with a friend i can ask hey  foofy do you want to sightsee around stockholm  

tomorrow you can also say to go sightseeing do  you want to go sightseeing you want to go look  

around and see the things you've been sightseeing  you've been observing the city taking it all in so  

after you're done sightseeing you see everything  you're satisfied you're ready to go to a new city  

of course you can book a trip on a bus or  make a reservation for a flight or you could  

try hitchhiking do you know what hitchhiking is  hitchhiking is when you put your thumb up and  

you ask people for a ride i've hitchhiked so many  times almost 100 times in many countries and i've  

always had great experiences i love to hitchhike  you have fun conversations you meet really cool  

people of course it's not always the funnest way  to travel because the weather can be bad or people  

will be maybe rude to you but as long as you  send good energy to the world the world will  

always bring it back to you and i've always  had good luck hitchhiking so i was in the  

republic of georgia which is below russia and  if you've never been there outside of the cities  

pigs cows and sheep and other animals they sleep  in the streets they sleep on the streets and  

the cars must go around them the animals don't  move and i hitchhiked there with my friend fufi  

and when we got in the car the guy was  going so fast going around the animals  

so fast and we were really nervous and he spoke  no english and he was just driving and laughing  

like the joker but he was really nice in the  end we didn't talk so much but we made it to  

our destination it was wonderful and we continued  our journey and hitchhiking was on my bucket list  

a bucket list is a list of things that you want  to do before you die on my bucket list is visit  

antarctica learn 10 languages become a  father have a kid's camp where i can teach  

sports and english that would be amazing that's  definitely on my bucket list so many people  

have different things on their bucket list and i'm  curious what's on your bucket list what things do  

you want to do before you die let me know in  the comments down below and while you're there  

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the link is in the description so that wraps  up today's english lesson i hope you had fun  

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and until then i'm ryan this is go natural  english and i'll see you next time bye everyone