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- Lucas: Welcome back to Learn Japanese with Fexingo. I'm Lucas. Luna: And I'm Luna. Episode 85 already. Lucas, I'm feeling really happy today. Lucas: Oh, that's perfect. Because today we're learning how to say 'happy' and 'sad' in Japanese. Luna: Awesome. So how do I say 'happy'? Lucas: The word for happy is 嬉しい. Luna: 嬉しい. Lucas: Yes. And sad is 悲しい. Luna: 悲しい. Lucas: Perfect. So if you want to say 'I am happy', you say 嬉しいです. Luna: 嬉しいです. Lucas: And 'I am sad' is 悲しいです. Luna: 悲しいです. Lucas: Now, if you want to say 'very happy', just add とても before 嬉しい. So とても嬉しいです. Luna: とても嬉しいです. Lucas: And 'very sad' is とても悲しいです. Luna: とても悲しいです. Lucas: If you want to ask someone 'Are you happy?', you say 嬉しいですか. Luna: 嬉しいですか. Lucas: And 'Are you sad?' is 悲しいですか. Luna: 悲しいですか. Lucas: Let's practice with a little scene. Imagine you get a present. You can say 嬉しいです. Luna: 嬉しいです. Oh, that's perfect for when someone gives you something nice. Lucas: Exactly. And if you drop your ice cream, you can say 悲しいです. Luna: 悲しいです. Yeah, that would make me sad. Lucas: You know, Fexingo helps you learn these phrases in a natural way. And we deliberately keep the show ad-free to focus on the learning. Luna: Yeah, that's really nice. If you want to support that, you can at buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo. Lucas: Exactly. Every little bit helps us keep going. So back to emotions. Let's say you're having a great day. How would you say that? Luna: Uhh... 今日は嬉しいです? Lucas: Almost. You can say 今日はとても嬉しいです for 'I'm very happy today.' Luna: 今日はとても嬉しいです. Lucas: And if it's a rainy day and you're feeling down, you could say 今日は悲しいです. Luna: 今日は悲しいです. That's useful. Lucas: Let's do a quick call back. Remember from episode 65 we learned 花? So if you see a beautiful flower, you can say 花を見て嬉しいです. Luna: 花を見て嬉しいです. I love that. Lucas: So let's review. 嬉しい means happy. Luna: 嬉しい. Lucas: 悲しい means sad. Luna: 悲しい. Lucas: とても嬉しいです is 'very happy'. Luna: とても嬉しいです. Lucas: とても悲しいです is 'very sad'. Luna: とても悲しいです. Lucas: And questions: 嬉しいですか and 悲しいですか. Luna: 嬉しいですか? 悲しいですか? Lucas: Great job today, Luna. Keep practicing these emotions. See you next time on Fexingo! Luna: See you! 嬉しいです!