{"podcast":{"title":"Happy English Podcast","slug":"happy-english-podcast-1725777","podcast_index_feed_id":1725777,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5900997/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/happy-english-podcast_1","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e072c2c4572f3794bb29fde95b7cb0ec.jpg","author":"Michael DiGiacomo Happy English","episode_count":1000,"summary":"The Happy English Podcast helps English learners learn natural American English with clear lessons, practical phrases, everyday conversation tips, and listening practice. Hosted by American English teacher Michael DiGiacomo , the show features short and practical lessons to help you build vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and speak English confidently in real conversations. Episodes range from quick tips to longer explanations and cover useful topics like phrasal verbs, idioms, pronunciation, grammar, and natural conversation patterns used by native speakers. If you want to learn English, improve your American English pronunciation, practice English listening, and speak English more confidently in everyday conversation , the Happy English Podcast will help you step by step. Since 2014, the podcast has published over 1,000 episodes and reached more than 8 million downloads worldwide . Get free weekly English lessons plus instant access to my FREE Vocabulary Workshop.: https://learn.myhappyenglish.com/free-english-lessons Watch video versions of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@HappyEnglishNY/podcasts","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T18:20:52.059751+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777"},"episode":{"title":"1044 - Take Turns - English Tips in a Minute | Happy English","slug":"1044-take-turns-english-tips-in-a-minute-happy-english","published_at":"2026-05-02T06:52:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777/1044-take-turns-english-tips-in-a-minute-happy-english","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1044-take-turns-english-tips-in-a-minute-happy-english--71825628","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71825628/1044_take_turns_english_tips_in_a_minute_happy_english.mp3","summary":"Hey there! It’s Michael here - and welcome back to English Tips in a Minute from Happy English. I’m here every week with a short, simple tip to help you speak English more naturally and confidently. Today, let’s look at a really useful everyday phrase - “take turns.” We use take turns when two or more people do something one after another, instead of at the same time. And there are two patterns. First, is people take turns Like, We turns cooking dinner. Or “They took turns driving on the trip.” You can also say someone takes turns with another person.” Like: “I take turns with my roommate doing the laundry.” Or: Steve takes turns with Patty walking the dog. “We take turns with each other using the computer.” Lemme know in the comments what you take turns doing, and remember to follow or subscribe so you don’t miss the next Happy English Podcast and next week’s English Tips in a Minute. Hey, thanks for listening - and until next time, keep learning and keep it cool. The Happy English Podcast Helping people speak English better since 2014 Over 1,000 episodes • 8 million downloads 📘 Get free weekly English lessons plus instant access to my FREE Vocabulary Workshop.: https://learn.myhappyenglish.com/free-english-lessons 🎥 Watch video versions of the Happy English Podcast on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@HappyEnglishNY/podcasts 🌐 Learn more about my English lessons and courses https://www.myhappyenglish.com","meta_description":"Hey there! It’s Michael here - and welcome back to English Tips in a Minute from Happy English. I’m here every week with a short, simple tip to help you s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":80,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/happy-english-podcast-1725777/episodes/1044-take-turns-english-tips-in-a-minute-happy-english/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777/1044-take-turns-english-tips-in-a-minute-happy-english.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}