hey there it's me gabby your american english coach from gonaturalenglish.com
why is it that when you're speaking a foreign language it feels more difficult to express your
true feelings like you can say i'm fine i'm okay but it just doesn't feel the same as the way you
can express yourself in your native language and that's what we're here to talk about today
to learn how to communicate and express your true feelings from the bottom of your soul so no longer
will you simply say i'm fine thank you and you oh so boring it's so dry like a robot just from
the textbook no after today's lesson after just 10 minutes of watching and practicing
you are going to see how you can sound more native-like more natural and really express how
you feel so other people understand you and your true feelings now this lesson is brought to you by
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i'm going to show you how i do it honestly sometimes i just do it for fun because i love
seeing how the technology works so let's take a look and then you're going to learn phrases
to express your feelings in english and of course you can practice your pronunciation by
repeating the phrases after teacher diane who is going to talk to you about what phrases
to use and how to say them like a native speaker my biggest story is to improve my english shoot
my biggest issue is to improve my english my biggest wish is to improve my english
hi i'm diane from gonaturalenglish.com your personal english coach and motivator i am
so excited and happy right now i had moved into my new apartment and i cannot believe it
i was a little anxious but now i feel ecstatic as i was reading through the comments i noticed that
a lot of you guys have asked about how to express your emotions and feelings in english today i'm
going to go through ways that you can express yourself whether it's to a coworker maybe a friend
somebody at the store at the bank depending on the situation we're going to go through different
examples and adjectives remember to start thinking in english making that switch in your brain will
help you express yourself more effortlessly without having to think of the translation
and stay to the end of the video where i'll share with you some common english idioms that you can
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let's go through the sentence structure i am i am plus the adjective i am tired i am sad
i feel plus the adjective i'm a little plus the adjective i'm feeling i've been i've been feeling
and i got the sentence structure that i just mentioned is how you would start and how you
would go about expressing how you were feeling it doesn't have to be so complicated you don't
have to use some crazy vocabulary or grammar or anything it's just i am i feel it doesn't have to
be that complicated now to talk about the cause of what made you feel a certain way there are a
couple of ways to say that for example i get sad when blah blah blah i get sad when a bird dies
now another way to talk about what makes you feel a certain way or who you can say he she they make
or makes me feel happy sad angry you can also talk about a situation or something that makes you feel
a certain type of way so this or that makes me feel plus the adjective
now let's go through the vocabulary of basic terms such as sad happy angry
tired bored these are very simple ones what i'm going to do is go through some synonyms
and ways that you can express yourself a little bit more fluent to sound more native
ways to say happy delighted delighted ecstatic ecstatic glad glad overjoyed overjoyed thrilled
thrilled elated elated so depending on the situation and the level of happiness
you could switch these words around so if you're really really happy about something
you can say i'm overjoyed like to the point of crying if you are happy about something like
i'm glad that today is sunny you're not overjoyed that it's sunny you're glad that it's sunny it's
not super super happy like i mentioned in the beginning i'm ecstatic elated i am excited about
being in my new apartment so that's how you would say that because i am very excited you don't have
to say i'm very happy you can say i'm elated i'm ecstatic and that implies that you are very happy
ways to say that you are sad miserable miserable down down disrupted disrupted depressed
depressed upset upset unhappy unhappy bummed out bummed out now let's go through how you would
use some of these terms so if you're really really sad you can say i am miserable like you are so
so sad you can't get out of bed you can't do anything that is being miserable or you can also
say depressed that both of those things are the same meaning they mean that you are very very sad
when you're down again it's not like i said in oh no let me do it again okay sorry when
you say that you are down it just means you're a little sad it's nothing like being depressed
or being miserable you just kind of down it's not you're not feeling it when you are upset you can
say i'm really upset and that means that you're very very sad or very angry so you can actually
use upset in those two scenarios when you're very sad you're like i'm really upset like i'm so sad
or i'm really upset i'm really angry so that word can actually be interchangeable
and when you are bummed out you're like oh i couldn't go to the concert this year because
of covid so it is a disappointment but you're not depressed about it maybe some people are
ways to say to be angry annoyed annoyed enraged enraged furious furious irritable
irritable outraged outraged indignant indignant infuriated infuriated so most of these mean that
you are very very upset except for annoyed annoyed is not being very angry but all the other ones
means that you are really really upset or angry about something i'm outraged i'm indignant that
is all of those other words you would use when you are very upset very angry ways to say tired
overworked overworked sleepy sleepy drained drained burned out burned out worn out
worn out drowsy drowsy overworked worn out and burned out those mean that you are really really
tired from doing something repeatedly maybe work the gym or a situation that is just not going away
or something like that you could use that and those are the most like the more extreme ways
to say that you're very tired sleepy and drowsy you're just maybe tired a little tired but nothing
like being overworked or burned out those are very very being very very tired now let's go
through some examples i've been feeling really depressed about what is going on with the pandemic
but i am thrilled about the future that it's going to go back to normal one day
the people at the bank made me so furious when they didn't want to help me i've been overworked
at my new job because i have to work really long hours my workout last night drained me because i
haven't been exercising regularly and those are a few examples of how you would express yourself
and like i said in the beginning the sentence structure is very simple so don't get intimidated
by how do you say something how do you say how you feel about something it's easy i feel i am i'm
i this makes me feel x y and z don't be scared to express your emotions because that is no good
when you are trying to learn a language because they make maybe it'll make you upset or angry at
trying to learn a new language because you can't express yourself finally let's go through some
idioms and ways that native speakers talk about their feelings i am on cloud nine right now
after my date that means that you are really really happy being on cloud nine means that you
feel so happy after spending time with someone or it's usually something about in the romantic
aspect of things so when you hear that it means that someone is really really happy
another way to say that you're happy if somebody asked how you doing somebody might say i can't
complain not necessarily mean that you are on cloud nine super happy it just means that
that person has nothing to complain about maybe you you can say i can't complain i have a good
life or whatever the situation may be she got riled up because of what she saw in the news
riled up is to get angry or to get upset maybe that person saw something in the news and she got
riled up she got angry like something made someone angry the guy at the store was foaming at the
mouth about a discount or something that happened with the clerk when you hear someone saying that
someone is foaming at the mouth that is not good foaming at the mouth it's not literal it doesn't
mean literally foam in your mouth but it's maybe when someone is so angry that they are speaking
loudly and screaming because they're so angry i get bored to death at work when it is slow and
bored to death means really really really really bored so instead of saying really or very you can
learn these things about how to say something that means an extreme so very bored you can say
bored to death and that is what a lot of native speakers say and finally i feel pooped after work
it's funny i learned that like way later on i was like what do you mean you poop yourself
and no what that means is that you're very tired you're pooped you are so physically exhausted
mentally exhausted that's another way to say tired exhausted and you just can't even say a normal
word so you just say i'm pooped i'm so tired and that is a vocabulary incentive structure that you
would use to express your feelings and emotions again practice a lot pay attention to what other
native speakers say to improve your fluency and if you need to re-watch this video as many times do
so so you can practice practice practice and don't miss free go natural english tips by signing up
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