1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:01,770 Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:06,840 Guess what? Guess what? I found twenty five better ways to say 'I'm happy'. 3 00:00:07,110 --> 00:00:10,170 How good is that? And I can't wait to show you guys, I'm so happy! 4 00:00:10,910 --> 00:00:11,670 Damn it! 5 00:00:18,210 --> 00:00:19,850 Get out you, mob! How's it going? 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,490 I am paid the host of this channel, Aussie English. 7 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:30,020 The number one place for anyone trying to build confidence, speak fluently and take their English to the next level. 8 00:00:30,260 --> 00:00:37,860 Today is going to be a ripper of a video, guys, it's going to be great, because I have twenty five different ways to say the word 'happy', right? 9 00:00:38,420 --> 00:00:39,860 It's going to be awesome. 10 00:00:39,860 --> 00:00:45,720 Make sure that you stick around to the end, guys, because I'm also going to teach you a bunch of English slang terms. 11 00:00:45,740 --> 00:00:58,340 These are terms you can use to sound more like a native speaker, but before we get into it, guys, don't forget to smash that subscribe button and the bell notification button if you want to stay up to date with all my future videos. 12 00:00:58,550 --> 00:00:59,930 Alright. Let's get into it. 13 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,840 Ok? Number one: 'cheerful', right? 14 00:01:05,860 --> 00:01:09,670 Say these with me. 'Cheerful', 'cheerful'. 15 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:13,090 I'm always cheerful when I finish work. 16 00:01:13,810 --> 00:01:16,420 I hope you guys are cheerful for when you finish work. 17 00:01:16,420 --> 00:01:18,070 Number two: 'delighted'. 18 00:01:18,310 --> 00:01:20,540 'Delighted'. Hear that T flap? 19 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:22,860 'Delighted'. 'Delighted'. 20 00:01:23,290 --> 00:01:26,350 She was delighted to see us on the weekend. 21 00:01:27,070 --> 00:01:29,440 When are you guys delighted? Are you delighted often? 22 00:01:29,890 --> 00:01:31,790 Number three: 'ecstatic'. 23 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,410 'Ecstatic'. I'm ecstatic! 24 00:01:36,130 --> 00:01:39,130 You were ecstatic to get those tickets to the concert. 25 00:01:39,580 --> 00:01:40,570 'Ecstatic'. 26 00:01:40,570 --> 00:01:46,810 Number four: 'elated', 'elated', 'elated'. 27 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:48,400 When he proposed. 28 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:50,290 She was elated. 29 00:01:50,790 --> 00:01:54,060 Number five: 'glad', 'glad'. 30 00:01:54,730 --> 00:01:57,400 I was so glad that you guys came over for dinner. 31 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:00,050 I was so glad. 32 00:02:00,050 --> 00:02:03,450 Number six: 'joyful', 'joyful'. 33 00:02:04,030 --> 00:02:06,750 My son's a joyful little fellow, right? 34 00:02:06,820 --> 00:02:08,020 He's a pretty happy chap. 35 00:02:08,050 --> 00:02:09,790 He is a joyful little fellow. 36 00:02:10,540 --> 00:02:11,080 True story. 37 00:02:11,550 --> 00:02:15,940 Number seven, more about joy, 'joyous', 'joyous'. 38 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,510 The wedding was an absolutely joyous occasion. 39 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:24,550 'Joyous'. You'll often hear that collocation, 'joyous occasion'. 40 00:02:24,550 --> 00:02:28,870 Number eight: 'jubilant', that's a good one, 'jubilant'. 41 00:02:29,530 --> 00:02:35,950 'Jubilant'. The fans were jubilant that their footy team won the grand final. 42 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:39,700 Footy is Australian for football, ok? 43 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:41,150 Not soccer. 44 00:02:41,150 --> 00:02:44,080 Nine: 'merry', 'merry'. 45 00:02:44,950 --> 00:02:48,090 We were all drunk last night and very merry. 46 00:02:49,060 --> 00:02:50,920 And what's a common collocation with 'merry'? 47 00:02:51,580 --> 00:02:52,930 Mary Christmas. 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,590 That's probably 90 percent of the time you're going to hear that word, Merry Christmas. 49 00:02:56,750 --> 00:02:59,860 Ten: 'pleased', 'pleased'. 50 00:03:00,250 --> 00:03:03,640 The students were really pleased with their exam results. 51 00:03:03,850 --> 00:03:06,430 I was never pleased with mine, they tended to be pretty bad. 52 00:03:07,130 --> 00:03:10,420 Number 11: 'thrilled', 'thrilled'. 53 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,140 Dad was thrilled with our birthday gift. 54 00:03:14,470 --> 00:03:15,160 'Thrilled'. 55 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:23,210 And the very last one here, guys: 'upbeat', 'upbeat', the P disappears, right?,'Upbeat', 56 00:03:23,210 --> 00:03:26,950 'upbeat'. My uncle's a very upbeat guy. 57 00:03:27,490 --> 00:03:29,050 He's a very upbeat guy. 58 00:03:32,490 --> 00:03:34,180 Alright. Let's take a break, guys. 59 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:37,990 Make sure that you give this video a like if you already knew some of those words. 60 00:03:38,020 --> 00:03:50,230 If you're already on top of your English and you have a wide vocabulary and you knew some of those words, give this video a like, and before we continue, I want you to use some of those words in a comment below. 61 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,320 I want you to write a sentence with any of those words. 62 00:03:53,650 --> 00:03:57,600 'Joyful', 'joyous', 'jubilant', 'thrilled', right? 63 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,750 Try and use them. That's the key to learning these words, using them straight away. 64 00:04:01,990 --> 00:04:04,330 I'll see you in the comments. 65 00:04:04,330 --> 00:04:05,470 Alright, welcome back. 66 00:04:05,830 --> 00:04:10,480 Now, I've got a bunch of different expressions for being happy in English, ok? 67 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,300 Being thrilled, being ecstatic, being elated. 68 00:04:16,220 --> 00:04:19,360 Number one: 'a happy camper', right? 69 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,120 Somebody goes camping and is very happy, probably because the weather's really good. 70 00:04:23,690 --> 00:04:28,760 Often in English we'll use this in the negative, though, to say that someone is 'not a happy camper'. 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,160 So, for example, when I crashed my car, I was not a happy camper. 72 00:04:35,330 --> 00:04:37,490 Number two: 'as happy as a clam'. 73 00:04:38,060 --> 00:04:39,860 'As happy as a clam', right? 74 00:04:39,890 --> 00:04:47,000 The shellfish in the ocean, I don't know why we say that they are really happy, but that is an expression we use all the time. 75 00:04:47,030 --> 00:04:49,280 'As happy as a clam'. 76 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:51,070 when the pizza arrived. 77 00:04:51,350 --> 00:04:54,020 I was as happy as a clam. 78 00:04:54,020 --> 00:04:56,510 Number three: this one's a good one, ok? 79 00:04:56,550 --> 00:05:05,030 There's two versions of this one, there's a rude version and there's a polite version: 'as happy as a pig in mud' and 'as happy as a pig in...", 80 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,350 and you can read it down below, I'm not going to say it. 81 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:09,950 'As happy as a pig in SHIT'. 82 00:05:09,950 --> 00:05:13,760 'As happy as a pig in mud' or 'as happy as a pig in as SHIT'. 83 00:05:14,090 --> 00:05:18,170 When she got a birthday present, she was as happy as a pig in mud. 84 00:05:18,530 --> 00:05:20,660 Number four: 'as happy as Larry'. 85 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:22,280 'As happy as Larry'. 86 00:05:22,310 --> 00:05:34,190 This is a good one. It originates in Australia from a boxer named Larry, back in the early nineteen hundreds, and when he won, the people who bet money on him were said to be 'as happy as Larry', the guy himself, right? 87 00:05:34,430 --> 00:05:35,900 'As happy as Larry'. 88 00:05:36,170 --> 00:05:41,900 So, for example: my rugby team won the game, and I'm as happy as Larry with the results. 89 00:05:42,380 --> 00:05:46,330 Number five: 'grinning from ear to ear'. 90 00:05:46,330 --> 00:05:48,290 Maybe think Joker, right? 91 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:50,480 'Grinning from ear to ear'. 92 00:05:50,990 --> 00:05:54,200 At the man's wedding, he was grinning from ear to ear. 93 00:05:54,620 --> 00:05:57,650 Number six: 'in seventh heaven'. 94 00:05:58,370 --> 00:05:59,510 'In seventh heaven'. 95 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:03,500 I'm not sure why it is seventh, not sixth or eighth. 96 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:08,090 I'm sure there's a reason, but 'in seventh heaven' means to be incredibly happy. 97 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:11,900 The day his son was born, he was in seventh heaven. 98 00:06:12,470 --> 00:06:15,260 Number seven: 'on cloud nine'. 99 00:06:15,780 --> 00:06:17,510 Another one about numbers in the sky, right?. 100 00:06:17,570 --> 00:06:19,100 'Seventh Heaven', 'cloud nine'. 101 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,130 'On cloud nine', incredibly happy. 102 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:25,550 When I heard your news, I was on cloud nine. 103 00:06:25,970 --> 00:06:27,200 I was so happy for you. 104 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,690 Number eight: 'on top of the world'. 105 00:06:30,690 --> 00:06:32,990 'On top of the world'. 106 00:06:34,010 --> 00:06:35,890 I guess we're always on top of the world, right? 107 00:06:36,150 --> 00:06:42,330 Literally. But this is also a common expression to say that you are very, very happy, 'on top of the world'. 108 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:44,540 Yeah, I'm on top of the world! 109 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,370 Her kids are always on top of the world when she gets home from work. 110 00:06:49,870 --> 00:06:52,160 Number nine: 'over the moon'. 111 00:06:53,030 --> 00:06:54,080 'Over the moon'. 112 00:06:54,230 --> 00:06:58,090 I guess because you've jumped so high, because you're happy, you've gone over the moon, right? 113 00:06:58,340 --> 00:07:02,420 Like the cow in that fairy tale, 'over the moon', to be 'over the moon'. 114 00:07:02,780 --> 00:07:05,270 I'd be over the moon to see you guys this weekend. 115 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:06,470 Come on over. 116 00:07:07,580 --> 00:07:09,150 Alright. That is it, guys. 117 00:07:09,260 --> 00:07:16,920 Now, I've got a few slang term, some Aussie slang terms, as I promised at the start. 118 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,560 So, let's go through these quickly and then finish up. 119 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,040 Number one: 'wrapped', right? 120 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,700 You can imagine wrapping something around you. 121 00:07:24,330 --> 00:07:29,310 I don't know why that would make you happy, but if you are 'wrapped' in English, you are incredibly happy. 122 00:07:29,580 --> 00:07:32,100 I'm always wrapped to go surfing off the work. 123 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,130 I love it. I'm wrapped. 124 00:07:35,130 --> 00:07:36,660 Number two: 'chaffed'. 125 00:07:37,130 --> 00:07:40,680 'Chaffed'. She was chuffed to hear your good news. 126 00:07:41,250 --> 00:07:42,420 She was chuffed. 127 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:44,140 Number three: 'stoked. 128 00:07:44,870 --> 00:07:48,430 'Stoked'. Man, I'm so stoked to see you. 129 00:07:48,430 --> 00:07:49,680 I'm happy to see you. 130 00:07:50,130 --> 00:07:56,660 And the last one, number four, guys, this is a bit of a long one, but it's funny: 'grinning like a shot fox'. 131 00:07:57,210 --> 00:08:07,080 I don't know why dead foxes grin, especially after they've been shot, but this is an expression you might hear in Australia: 'grinning like a shot fox', to be incredibly happy. 132 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,530 Why are you always grinning like a shot fox? 133 00:08:10,530 --> 00:08:15,000 Good job, guys. 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