Regardless & Regarding [How To Use Regardless and Regarding]

welcome to this video today you're going to learn how to use regardless and regarding of course i'm jennifer from jayfirstenglish.com and this channel is dedicated to helping you feel confident speaking english in public so you can take your career and your life to the next level now before we go any further make sure you subscribe and hit that bell icon so you're notified every time i post a new lesson now let's dive in with this lesson let's talk about the difference between regardless and regarding so of course they both start with the word regard but they don't have the same meaning and they're not used in the same way at all so let's start with regardless the structure is regardless of and then something now when we use this we're saying that the something does not matter we're not going to take it into account at all we're going to ignore it for example you might see an advertisement that says our club accepts everyone regardless of age sex race gender and then they list other qualities as well so remember those are the something regardless of something so one of them was age what we're seeing here is age does not matter in the decision of who we accept into the club so you could be 18 or 80. it does not matter we accept everyone into our club regardless of age another way we use this is when we want to say that there's a negative then we use regardless and then we state something positive so let me explain what i mean by this i could say i don't have all the skills on this job posting so let's say there's a job posting i'm interested in applying for it and i'm reading the job posting and i realize i don't have that i don't have that i don't have that so that's a negative right i don't have all the skills on this job posting regardless i'm going to apply anyway so that's the positive negative i don't have the skills regardless and then my positive action i'm going to apply anyway now notice here i just used the word regardless i didn't say regardless of something because in this case the something has been already identified and it's obvious so to say it again would be quite repetitive it would be like saying regardless of the fact that i don't have all the skills i'm going to apply anyway that would be very long very complex and not necessary at all so when the something has been already identified we can use regardless as a transition word to connect a negative idea and then a positive idea so a contrasting idea now let's talk about regarding regarding something that's our sentence structure now this means with respect to something or concerning something so we're identifying the context of what we're talking about when we say regarding something now remember my previous example was our club accepts everyone regardless of age gender race background now imagine that before that information was given someone asked a question and they said regarding your application who does the club accept so now i'm identifying what the topic is regarding your application process regarding your selection decision regarding your requirements regarding your rules and regulations so i'm identifying it because you can imagine i could be in a meeting and we could be talking about many different things regarding the marketing plan regarding the financial report regarding the vacation request so i use regarding before i identify the subject so everyone knows the context we commonly use regarding at the very beginning regarding x and then you state your information or you ask a question but we don't have to we can use regarding in the sentence so i might say i have a question regarding your club's policies or i have a question regarding the marketing report so notice how i'm using it toward the end of the sentence so now you know the difference between regardless and regarding it's your turn to practice i want you to leave two examples in the comments below and if you found this video helpful please hit the like button share it with your friends and of course subscribe and before you go make sure you head on over to my website and download your free speaking guide in this guide i share six tips on how to speak english fluently and confidently and until next time happy studying awesome job adding these to your vocabulary i can't wait to read your examples and i'll see you in my next lesson bye you

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Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 10 2021