Happy English Podcast
Learn American English with your host Michael DiGiacomo from Happy English in New York City. Michael has been teaching English since 1994. This is an English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) podcast that brings you fun, practical, and useful English lessons which are ideal for intermediate and advanced level English learners everywhere. This podcast is perfect for university students, business professionals, homemakers, retirees and anyone who is interested in learning and improving their English skills. Every week, you are going to learn American English idioms, conversational expressions and phrasal verbs. As your American English teacher, I will help you learn real and natural American English pronunciation and conversational style. You will get the chance to improve your vocabulary and have a clear understanding of practical English grammar. I also help you have a deeper understanding of American Culture through language learning. Join my podcast learner's study group to practice these lessons with me each week on zoom. Get Happy, Get English. Happy English!
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 881
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
801 - Travel, Trip, Journey, and Voyage
Why don’t we go somewhere. A lot of people learn English because they love to travel. How about you? Whether it’s taking trip through the countryside, a voyage across the sea, or an exotic journey to…
00:07:32 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
800 - Deadlines With By, Until, and Unless
Deadlines, we all have them, and so we need to talk about them. Finish your homework by Friday. Work hard until the weekend. And you can’t have any fun unless you’re done doing what you have to do. B…
00:08:05 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
799 - Is it Don't or Haven't?
Even though I have my own business don’t like doing bookkeeping. I use some software to help me with that, but I haven’t had any real training in anything like accounting. Actually I don’t understand…
00:09:19 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
798 - Ache vs Pain
I visited my 97-year-old aunt in the nursing home the other day. I haven't seen her in a while and it was a bit of a pain in the neck to get there but it was totally worth it. She said that aside fr…
00:08:21 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
797 - 5 Ways To Use Put On
The first thing I do every morning when I get up is I put on the coffee maker. Then I put on a podcast and get dressed. It's been pretty cold lately so I always need to put on something warm.
I know t…
I know t…
00:06:27 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
796 - 7 Ways To Use The Simple Present Tense
Yesterday I go to the pizza place down the block and I find out they have new owners. And I look behind the counter and they have all of these weird kinds of pizza. They even have one with pineapple …
00:08:27 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
795 - Things you can have
pet can result in having a headache. My dog Max is having a birthday in a few months, and I was thinking of having a birthday party for him.
Did you notice all the ways I just used have? Have is a wo…
Did you notice all the ways I just used have? Have is a wo…
00:08:05 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
794 - Phrasal Verbs And Other Communication Phrases
I’m so glad I called up my buddy Ed the other day. He’s a buddy of mine from high school and last week, out of the blue, he hit me up in a text message. I’ve been meaning to get in touch with him fo…
00:06:43 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
793 - Tired, Tired Of, Tired From
The word tired is one of those words in English that has a number of different uses and while you may be familiar with the basic meaning of tired, which is sleepy, did you know that tired can also be…
00:06:51 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
792 - 5 Ways To Use Always
Always is a commonly used word, and probably one that you learned when you first started studying English. I’m sure everyone listening today knows that we use always when we talk about something tha…
00:07:01 |
Mon 27 Jan 2025
791 - Phrasal Verbs Related To Starting
It’s time to kick off another podcast English lesson. Boot up your ipod, and fire up your headphones. We’re about to dive into a bunch of phrasal verbs that talk about starting something.
It’s been a…
It’s been a…
00:06:55 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
790 - Using How
How about this? Let’s look at the word how and see all the ways you can use how to make your English sound more natural. How come? I’m glad you asked that. Because you depend on me to tell you these …
00:06:25 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
789 - The End
Today, I have a podcast for your that’s all about the end. I hope you can stick around until the tail end because by the time we are at the end, you’ll know the difference between in the end and at t…
00:08:26 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
788 - It’s Over And Above
Let me tell you a bit about the setup I have here. First off, I’ve got two clocks in the office. One of them is on the wall above my desk, and the other one is above the whiteboard in the teaching ar…
00:07:23 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
787 - Is It Bring or Take
Bring and take. Both of these words can be used in English to talk about moving something or someone from place to place. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, believe it or not, these two words tend to…
00:08:27 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
786 - How We Really Use SAY
I saw a buddy of mine from high school the other day. It was really nice to catch up with him. He said he’s planing on selling his house. He said he wants to buy a sailboat and then he said he’s gonn…
00:07:56 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
785 - Six Ways To Use Go Out
These days, I don’t go out as much on the weekends as I did when I was in my 20s. I remember that in those days, there were a lot of fashion trends that came in and went out. And basically, the only …
00:07:14 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
784 - Hand Phrasal Verbs
I love my watch. It’s not a Rolex or anything like that, but it was handed down to me by my grandfather. He was a teacher too and I remember him telling me stories of how he would hand out the exams …
00:07:17 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
783 - Is It Hard Or Hardly
I’ve been working hard recently. It’s not that this is hard work, it’s just that I have hard schedule. Like today, I hardly had time to eat lunch. Sometimes, I just wish I had an assistant, but it ca…
00:07:29 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
782 - Winter Phrasal Verbs
It snowed hard last night and when I opened the curtains, the windows were frozen over. It seemed like I was snowed in. But because I’m so snowed under at work, I have to make it to the office someh…
00:09:04 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
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