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.

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 piece of land, some nice trees.

But on this side of the river,

you can see where Walter is, maybe.

I'll try to zoom in on the edit.

This is what we own.

It's nice. I like owning a little bit of land.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

It's good to be back on track doing these videos.

I hope you were able to learn something.

I'll see you in a couple days

with another short English lesson, bye.