Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases AS FAR AS I CAN SEE and TO SEE SOMETHING THROUGH
In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "as far as I can see." Now this doesn't have anything to do with seeing a long ways. It has nothing to do with me being able to see something that's far away. It basically means "as I understand something." So I could say this. As far as I can see, YouTube is a good way to learn English. As far as I can see, learning how to do something can only help make you a better person. So basically as I understand it, as far as I can see, those things are a good idea. So I guess I'm trying to think of another way to explain this. Like my understanding of the situation lets me say that I think this is a good idea. So as far as I can see, hiring someone to help you speak English once a week for 30 minutes? As far as I can see, that's a good idea. It has no drawbacks in my mind.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to see something through. When you see something through, it means you work at it to make sure that it happens and that it is finally completed. At work, sometimes we're working on a project and other people might wanna quit, but I like to see it through. I like to make sure the project is finished. I want to make sure we take it to completion. So I like to see it through.
By the way, this is different than seeing through something. That's a little bit different. If I lie and you see through my lie, it means you knew that I wasn't telling the truth. Sorry, hopefully I'm not confusing you there. To see something through and to see through something have completely different meanings. Hopefully you understood them.
Anyways, to review. "As far as I can see" simply means "as I understand it." As far as I can see, planting more trees in the world will just make the world a better place. And to see something through means to make sure it gets done. If I said my neighborhood is going to plant 1000 trees and I'm going to see it through, that would mean I'm going to make sure it actually does happen. That would be cool if we did that. Maybe I should start that initiative. The Bob the Canadian Tree Planting Initiative. We'll see.
But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. from Setayesh. "Thanks. If you don't mind, can I ask, are you the owner of all that land?" And I replied by saying, "I'll show you in the next video what Jen and I own."
So when I say own, I always like to also say basically what Jen and I purchased by taking out a large loan from the bank and paying them back every month. So it's not like I bought all of this farmland from my mom because I had lots of money. We did go to the bank. We do pay a hefty amount every month for it. But let me show you what we do own. If you look across the river, we do not own that land. If you look this way where you can see the barn and then you look at the land on this side of the river, we do own that land. So we have a field where we grow crops in the distance. We usually grow soybeans or wheat or corn.
Down further, I think I'm pointing to the right spot, we have a place where our goats go out on pasture. If you squint, you can see Walter down there right now. He's on his way to the river, maybe to go for a swim. And way in the distance there is a piece of land where we have hay that the neighbors actually cut and bale that every year and they give us some hay for our animals as well. But yes, this is what we own. We do not own that. We just look at it and appreciate it. It's a beautiful piec
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