29 - Lift your spirits - to lift someone's spirit

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Because, like you said, you can be really down and out what you put on one of those records and it really will lift your spirits up. And I have never found anything that could lift your spirits, like gospel our spiritual music.


Daniel: Hello guys. This is Daniel. I am the vocab man. You are listening to fluent vocabulary,


eventually giggling and laughing and everything. You do feel a lot better. So from a mental or mental, emotional standpoint, it lifts your spirits. Uh, people tend to be more resilient.
From a mental or mental, emotional standpoint, it lifts your spirits.

Daniel: With this episode, I'm going to try to lift your spirits guys because sometimes we feel a bit depressed because maybe our language journey doesn't go on. As we wished. So you probably didn't catch every single word because the speakers tends to speak really fast. But the good news here is that the transcription is waiting for you. That way you can read along while listening to this podcast. And besides that there are several applications, apps at your disposal, which allow you to reduce the speed of the audio file. And that way you can understand even better. And I recommend that you listen to the episode several times. I'm pretty sure if you follow these instructions, your English is gonna take to the roof. So I think your spirits are already, should be lifted by now.


as I said before, it's a great posture to just kind of lift your spirits, give the body a little energetic cleanse, great for the lower back.

Daniel:
And, um, we'll talk more about the benefits of this posture over on the website.
And as you could already guess to lift one spirits means to make one feel happier or more carefree. And where did we come across these expression? Well I was listening to a YouTube channel to Zdenek's English podcast, he explains different expressions and he's doing a great job our there, and I could learn a bunch of things. Thanks to him. I'm going to show you what I mean.


Zdenek:
Maybe for you Monday is still that least favorite day. Well, if that is the case, I'm here to lift your spirits. How do I do that? Well, by explaining to you. What the phrase to lift your spirits means. So to lift somebody's spirits, it pretty much means to cheer someone up.
So if somebody is not feeling very well, perhaps they are a little bit depressed or sad or bored or something, you can lift their spirits by doing something that will make them happier. Alright, so to lift somebody's spirits means to make somebody feel happier. You can also lift the spirits in English. That's also possible to say, alright, how do you lift your spirits? If you're not feeling very happy.

Daniel: So, That was Zenek. And well, all right, when I don't feel very happy, I lift my spirits by cooking something and eating something I really like. And speaking about food.

My hearty result with succulent sausages, fresh fennel, red wine, and Hazel nuts will lift your spirits to the snow top mountains.

So in my case, eating pizza with red vine , Really cheers me up or makes me kind of feel better. So listening to a humorous podcast might cheer you up maybe.

Wether,you they had a tough day or a good day. There are real positive things and it does switch your mood and the beauty of having a gratitude journal and everything in it is that if you are having a bad day, guess what? You can flip through it. And you can take a look at some past gratitudes to lift your spirits up.

Thank you for tuning in. This is Daniel. You were listening to Fluent vocabulary. Have a good one.


Zdenek's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A83pvuhh4w
www.myfluentpodcast.com