Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 339. The title of today's lesson
is the difference between abroad and overseas. Okay. Let's take a look at the
note here. When looking at definitions or when looking at definitions alone. Both
words appear to have the same meaning. So that's why this comes up a lot that
students may ask what's the difference between the two. Okay. Let's continue . They
both can mean in or to a foreign country. So you can mean that something is
happening in that country or while traveling or going to the foreign
country. So then they both can have that meaning too. So here is where they both...
the similarities are almost exactly the same. Okay. Let's continue. Both words can
also be used as adverbs and adjectives. Okay. All right. Now all right now here is
where we're going to finally get into the differences. However overseas does
imply, it does suggest. It does imply crossing an ocean. So if two or more are...
So if two or more countries are attached and can be crossed on land , you
should really be using abroad and not overseas. So let's take a look at this
first example here. You know , again with the X this would be wrong. So if you're
saying I am traveling overseas to Mexico next week and you're coming from the US,
then this would be wrong. You should be saying I am traveling abroad to Mexico
next week. Yeah. The same thing would be of course like in Europe, let's say you were
in France and you were going to Spain you should be saying that you're
traveling abroad to Spain not that you're, you're not traveling overseas,
because you don't have to cross any oceans. You can just go directly by
either train or drive by road, whatever. So you should not be using overseas in
that sense. All right good. Let's continue. Here's, here's another key difference
though. When used as adjectives abroad is always used after the word it
describes and overseas is always used before the noun. So that's a good thing
to note. So let's just take a look at one example here. We are trying to break into
overseas markets. Okay. So you know, to break into , this is like a company maybe
they want to you know, start selling in that new market. You know maybe they want
to get into the Japanese market. They're trying to break into it. So they can get
some share of the market. So we are trying to break into overseas market. So
just in general. So here of course it's overseas you use it before the noun that
you're modifying . And of course if you reverse the sentence to use abroad you
would say we are trying to break into markets abroad. So abroad of course would
be used after the noun. Okay. Anyway those are the two main key differences. Anyway
I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.