See someone's face light up

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How can we say: His face lit up when he heard he could keep his job.

It is the idiom 'to see someone's face light up' that I am having trouble with.

tx

[bannork]

หน้าเปื้อนยิ้ม na beuan yim literally (his) face was stained with smiles เปื้อน- beuan is one of the trickiest words to pronounce correctly in my view

ยิ้มแก้มปริ yim kaem bri literally (he) smiled splitting his cheeks

[Deserted]

Much appreciated

[Deserted]

tx, much appreciated

[Dag Ekeberg]

หน้าเปื้อนยิ้ม na beuan yim literally (his) face was stained with smiles เปื้อน- beuan is one of the trickiest words to pronounce correctly in my view

ยิ้มแก้มปริ yim kaem bri literally (he) smiled splitting his cheeks

It's only tricky if your native language is a vowel deprived one... A few Germanic languages have similar vowels

[bannork]

หน้าเปื้อนยิ้ม na beuan yim literally (his) face was stained with smiles เปื้อน- beuan is one of the trickiest words to pronounce correctly in my view

ยิ้มแก้มปริ yim kaem bri literally (he) smiled splitting his cheeks

It's only tricky if your native language is a vowel deprived one... A few Germanic languages have similar vowels

Oh dear, does this mean English native speakers suffer from irritable vowel syndrome?!

[Richard W]

หน้าเปื้อนยิ้ม na beuan yim literally (his) face was stained with smiles เปื้อน- beuan is one of the trickiest words to pronounce correctly in my view

ยิ้มแก้มปริ yim kaem bri literally (he) smiled splitting his cheeks

It's only tricky if your native language is a vowel deprived one... A few Germanic languages have similar vowels

For example? While Old English may have had the vowel ('unstable i/y'), I thought the only modern European languages with such sounds were Welsh, Slavonic and languages east of Slavonic, like Turkish.

[Dag Ekeberg]

หน้าเปื้อนยิ้ม na beuan yim literally (his) face was stained with smiles เปื้อน- beuan is one of the trickiest words to pronounce correctly in my view

ยิ้มแก้มปริ yim kaem bri literally (he) smiled splitting his cheeks

It's only tricky if your native language is a vowel deprived one... A few Germanic languages have similar vowels

For example? While Old English may have had the vowel ('unstable i/y'), I thought the only modern European languages with such sounds were Welsh, Slavonic and languages east of Slavonic, like Turkish.

The U in Swedish and Norwegian is fairly close. Same with the Ü in some German dialects, if I'm not mistaken.