HelloTalk Home > spadam黑山 Moment on HelloTalk
作者名称 国旗国籍

spadam黑山

EN
CN

最近我意识到很多中国人不知道vacation和holiday的区别。
现在是中国的黄金周，黄金周用英语是golden week

。golden week is a national holiday in China. 在这里不能说vacation. 公共假期是public holiday.
如果你想说度假holiday和vacation都可以用. Vacation is American English and holiday is British English. Holiday period is nearly over. 假期快结束了。

Comments

  • 傅先芳

    优秀

  • 智皎 Charlie

    我们学校不放假😭就休息一天

  • Xie jinfeng

    @spadam黑山 Ok, I see

  • Czh

    谢谢解释

  • Soul

    是不是可以理解为holiday有公众假的意思而vacation是自己安排的假期比如annual leave 这样。

  • spadam黑山

    @Xie jinfeng Spot on, we usually call the children’s summer holiday 6 week holiday. Most people go on holiday in the summer because children are off.

  • Amy

    Holiday period is nearly over 😁

  • Amy

    Thanks a lot now I see

  • Xie jinfeng

    谢谢啦

  • Coco su

    谢谢😁

  • 小灰灰-Chris

    thanks a ton

  • Grace

    非常感谢

  • Grace

    非常感谢

  • Alice in Mandarin

    @spadam黑山 Thanks for your patient explanation. Now I understand it more clearly. British people probably like to say bank holiday, here I guess in American English we like to say public holiday. Usually in France they have summer vacation for which may be referred to take their annual leaves off, is that correct?

  • spadam黑山

    @奇茸通天菊

  • spadam黑山

    @Alice in Mandarin In most cases you can use vacation or holiday but if your talking about a public holiday. You can’t say vacation here. In Britain we only say holiday.

  • Christine

    是的，的确很多人分不清楚。我记得我中学的时候，英语老师的解释只是：vacation 表示长假期，holiday 表示较短的一般的假期，例如周末😒😒😒

  • 奇茸通天菊

    But I think the word vacation，character is more important than the holiday，I want to know is right or not，My english is not so good，Sorry

  • Bella六月的雨

    Thanks,holiday period is nearly over

  • 幽谷百合

    thank you for explaining it so clearly

  • Alice in Mandarin

    @spadam黑山 if a teacher took several weeks off to travel to America or somewhere, that isn’t counted as vacation?🤣🤣

  • 我姓汤名春雪 a医学生学英语和考研ing加油

    哇，非常感谢

  • Sunflower

    学习了

  • Kevin Zhang

    Thanks for what you did

  • jichen

    So what’s the difference?😂

  • 昕这个字念Xin

    Thanks

  • spadam黑山

    @Alice in Mandarin Summer holidays 😄

  • H M

    I know that means,haha

  • 土豆好吃

    got it，my golden week just finish😂

  • Alice in Mandarin

    In China employees cannot have vacation unless you are a school teacher🤣🤣

  • Daisy

    Thank you for the tips.

  • jack ma

    thanks

Open HelloTalk to join the conversation

Related Moments

Learn languages from millions of native speakers, for free.

Open App