{"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":"1075 - How Americans Really Use \"Guess\"","slug":"1075-how-americans-really-use-guess","published_at":"2026-07-10T09:45:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777/1075-how-americans-really-use-guess","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1075-how-americans-really-use-guess--72911624","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72911624/1a1f35ed_83e1_4105_9781_7f96196f8e98.mp3","summary":"I guess so. I guess not. I guess you're right. Let me guess. Guess what? You probably learned that the verb guess means to answer a question when you don't know the answer. And that's true. But in everyday American English, guess has several other meanings. In fact, when native speakers say, \"I guess,\" they're usually not making a guess at all. They're softening an opinion, showing they're not completely certain, or saying something in a more relaxed way. So today, we're going to look at how Americans really use guess. 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 guess so. I guess not. I guess you're right. Let me guess. Guess what? You probably learned that the verb guess means to answer a question when you don'…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":540,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/happy-english-podcast-1725777/episodes/1075-how-americans-really-use-guess/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-1725777/1075-how-americans-really-use-guess.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}