{"podcast":{"title":"Happy English Podcast","slug":"happy-english-podcast-739863","podcast_index_feed_id":739863,"rss_url":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/HappyEnglishPodcast","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/happy-english-podcast_1","image_url":"http://www.myhappyenglish.com/x9walos9f/uploads/2016/02/happy-english-podcast-3000.jpg","author":"Michael DiGiacomo Happy English (happyenglishny@gmail.com)","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Learn English with the Happy English Podcast. Fun, practical, and useful English lessons for students of all levels and ages. Learn American English idioms, phrasal verbs, pronunciation, confusing vocabulary, grammar and more! Get Happy, Get English. Happy English! Visit myhappyenglish.com to hear all of the episodes.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T18:20:48.384344+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863"},"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-739863/1075-how-americans-really-use-guess","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/happy-english-podcast-739863","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-739863/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-739863/1075-how-americans-really-use-guess.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}