Hi, this is Nancy from China, and you are listening to Everybody ESL.
Welcome to episode 424 of Everybody ESL, the podcast for everybody who wants to improve prove their English, practice their English, or just learn more English.
My name is Ben, and I have a mini -episode for you today where I am going to teach you about one English topic.
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Okay, let's get on with this mini -episode.
In this episode, I am going to teach you a common phrase.
The phrase is, as far as I'm concerned as far as I'm concerned.
That's spelled A -S -F -A -R -A -S -I apostrophe M -C -O -N -C -E -R -N -E -D.
As far as I'm concerned.
What does, as far as I'm concerned, mean?
As far as I'm concerned basically means in my opinion, or according to what I think, or according to the way I feel, or according to my preferences.
If I am giving you my opinion or my preference, I might use the phrase as far as I'm concerned as a way of introducing my opinion or my preference.
Or I could use as far as I'm concerned as a way to introduce what I think about some topic.
For example, if I go on a walk with a friend of mine and the weather is just perfect, or according to me, the weather is just perfect.
In my opinion, this is the perfect weather I could say as far as I'm concerned this weather is perfect as far as I'm concerned this weather is perfect in other words in my opinion this weather is perfect or according to my beliefs or my preferences this weather is perfect as far as I'm concerned is is a way of introducing my opinion or my thoughts or my feelings about some topic.
Here is another example of a situation where someone might use the phrase as far as I'm concerned.
Imagine that a group of friends is trying to decide where to eat dinner.
One person says I would like to get pizza tonight.
night. Another person says, I would like to go to that new Japanese restaurant that just opened.
Another person says, I would like to get something very simple and light.
And when it is your turn to give your opinion, you say, as far as I'm concerned, anything is good.
All of your suggestions sound good.
As far as I'm concerned, anything sounds good.
In other words, in my opinion, anything sounds good.
Or, based on what I think, or based on what I like, anything sounds good.
Or, based on what I think, or based on the way I feel about it, anything is good.
Even though those examples use as far as I'm concerned, we can use this expression when we are talking about anybody's opinions or thoughts or feelings or preferences.
So we can also say as far as he is concerned.
In other words, in his opinion.
Or we can say as far as she is concerned.
concerned, or we can say, as far as the new teacher is concerned, or we can say, as far as my brother is concerned.
As far as someone is concerned is a way of expressing someone's opinions or thoughts or feelings or preferences about something.
And that is, as far as I'm concerned, or as far as someone is concerned.
A very common phrase that I think you should know.
This is the end of Episode 424 of Everybody ESL.
Remember, if you have questions about English, or if you have comments for me, or if you would like to record an introduction that I can play at the beginning of future episodes, the same way Nanxi recorded the introduction you heard at the beginning of this episode, send an email to everybodyesl at gmail dot com.
I'll be back soon with a new episode, and until then, keep going, keep practicing, and keep learning.
I'll see you soon. Goodbye.