{"podcast":{"title":"Happy English Podcast (Natural American English)","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":"2026-09-14T18:20:49.789594+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777"},"episode":{"title":"1081 - Bring vs. Take: Which One Should You Use?","slug":"1081-bring-vs-take-which-one-should-you-use","published_at":"2026-07-27T03:21:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777/1081-bring-vs-take-which-one-should-you-use","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-1725777","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1081-bring-vs-take-which-one-should-you-use--73186797","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73186797/1081_bring_vs_take_which_one_should_you_use.mp3","summary":"Can you bring me a coffee? I'm only taking one suitcase. What should I bring? Don't forget to take your umbrella. Bring your laptop. Take this to the office. Bring and take seem like simple words, but they're easy to mix up. You've probably learned that bring means \"move something toward the speaker\" and take means \"move something away from the speaker.\" That's a helpful place to start, but in real conversations we usually aren't thinking about grammar rules. Instead, we picture the situation. So today, we're going to look at how you can naturally use bring and take in everyday English. 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":"Can you bring me a coffee? I'm only taking one suitcase. What should I bring? Don't forget to take your umbrella. Bring your laptop. Take this to the offi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":428,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/happy-english-podcast-1725777/episodes/1081-bring-vs-take-which-one-should-you-use/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-1725777/1081-bring-vs-take-which-one-should-you-use.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}