{"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":"1050 - STOP Doing vs STOP To Do - What’s the Difference?","slug":"1050-stop-doing-vs-stop-to-do-what-s-the-difference","published_at":"2026-05-15T02:38:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777/1050-stop-doing-vs-stop-to-do-what-s-the-difference","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1050-stop-doing-vs-stop-to-do-what-s-the-difference--72014230","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72014230/1050_stop_doing_vs_stop_to_do_what_s_the_difference.mp3","summary":"I stopped working. I stopped to get coffee. I stopped working to get coffee. These sentences all use the word stop, but the meaning changes depending on what comes after stop. Sometimes the activity completely ends. Sometimes the activity pauses for a different action. And sometimes… one little infinitive completely changes the meaning of the sentence. I'm guessing you've probably learned this grammar, but I wonder if they show you how you can actually use these patterns in real conversation. Naturally. And that's what we're going to look at today. 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":"I stopped working. I stopped to get coffee. I stopped working to get coffee. These sentences all use the word stop, but the meaning changes depending on w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":510,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/happy-english-podcast-1725777/episodes/1050-stop-doing-vs-stop-to-do-what-s-the-difference/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-1725777/1050-stop-doing-vs-stop-to-do-what-s-the-difference.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}