AEE: Further Versus Farther- Stop the Confusion
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This is the All Ears English podcast. Further versus farther. Stop the confusion. Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection. We'll with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA. To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list, try the All Ears English app for iOS and Android. Start your seven-day free trial app. In today's episode, we dive into the common question, even from native speakers, should I use further or farther?
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Hey there, Michelle. How are you? I'm doing well, Lindsay. How are you? I'm doing great today. What are we getting into on the show for our listeners today? Well, so you live in a completely different type of area than I do. So I'm just curious. So you talk about the mountains a lot. So how far are the mountains... How far are they actually from your house? Yeah, they're actually a little farther than I would like them to be. Oh, really? Yeah, Denver is interesting because it's... A couple hours. You have to drive up into the Rockies, right? Up I-70. And it does take a few hours to really get into real mountains. You can go to Boulder and they're kind of hills. But the real mountains, like the 14,000 foot mountains, are a couple hours away still.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm actually surprised. I don't know. I just imagine you being surrounded by mountains. No. I mean, you can see them from Denver, but this is the city. Denver's pretty urban. It's not the greatest city on earth, but it's livable. We've got breweries here. We've got what we need, coffee shops. Those are the key things you need in life. So... We're okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
How do I distinguish between 'further' and 'farther'?
But today we're going to be talking about something that actually came up in your life, Lindsay, that you had kind of a debate about. You want to tell us about it? Well, speaking of coffee shops, I was in a coffee shop with my partner the other day and my partner was saying something. I don't remember what my partner was talking about, but I heard my partner asked me, Is, should I say further or farther here? And of course, my partner is a native speaker of English, right? And I kind of explained the difference. I thought for a minute and I refreshed my, you know, my ESL teacher vocabulary. I even had to think for a minute, go back into the library, right? Because we teach this, you know, if we teach classes in English.
And I explained which one was correct. But what I'm saying is most native speakers are not clear on this entirely, I think. What do you think, Michelle? Yeah, I think it's just one of those... You know the rule, but you don't know that you know the rule. You know how to use it, but it's hard to explain. Or maybe they misuse it. I think a lot of native speakers really don't know when to use further and farther, and I think they mix it up. I think I'm going to start listening now. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, this is a great topic that we should definitely discuss. I mean, we haven't covered this in years, I was looking. So it is definitely time for an update. So guys, remember to hit the follow button wherever you're listening to the All Ears English podcast.
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