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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话美国】. Hi, James.
Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone.
Has been a long time.
I know.
Yeah. I think we've managed to cover a lot of the topics already. So do you have any topic suggestions？
I was thinking that since we have finally reopened the country and we can go places, we should probably talk about vacation and traveling.
Yes. Actually that's a great idea.
Now the other day you, me and 安澜, we were talking about... in Across the Pond where we're talking about what we would do if we're traveling to other places in the world. So I thought maybe it would be a good idea to talk about how typical Americans travel, or how they see this idea of traveling, vacationing.
That sounds great. We should definitely talk about that.
But first things first, can I ask you, I mean, this has been confusing me for ages. So the idea of holiday and vacation都可以有假日的意思. But if you say you go on holiday and go on vacation, first of all, do you guys use that？And if so, are they the same？
So this is where it gets a little confusing because Americans would never say I'm going on holiday. It's not an Americanism. We would say I'm going on vacation or I'm going to take a vacation or I have a vacation, these are... we are more likely to use this word ‘vacation’. To an American holiday is Christmas, Thanksgiving.
I see, so it's more like this is a public holiday that sort of idea. It's not about you going anywhere.
No, because there's like we have a holiday this week, what are you gonna do？Stay home.
I see. I see.
So now let's talk about vacations. First of all, how long when people say they're going on a vacation？What is the average time they would spend on a vacation. A week.? 2 weeks?
I wish it was that long. But sadly, not. Most Americans when they go on a vacation, we think of it more like they're taking a long weekend, so like 3 or 4 days. Because paid holiday... there's not a lot of paid holiday or paid break.
Just out of curiosity, you said there's not a lot of paid holidays. So annual leave, the paid annual leave for average American workers. How long is that?
It really varies from company to company, but it averages out to 2 or 3 weeks, a year.