Hi everybody!
My name is Shauna and this is the American English Podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States.
Through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories,
I hope to keep this fun, useful, and interesting.
Let's do it!
we make guesses about the world around us.
We may guess what the weather will be like based on the color of the sky.
We might open the fridge at night and guess whether the pasta from two nights ago is still edible.
We might base that on the way it looks, the way it smells.
We do this sort of on the spot.
decision-making all the time.
And sometimes our guesses are based on past experiences or information,
like maybe there's mold or some stink to that pasta.
In other words, not good to eat.
Other times, our guesses are based on nothing.
Zip, nada.
When a guess has absolutely no foundation, no clues, no evidence,
no logic, we call that a shot in the dark.
Right now, if you asked me a question about quantum physics,