Living in the UK with @KoreanBilly Part 1

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Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome to a super special video today because I'm joined by Korean Billy.
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That's right! Now Korean Billy is a bit of a legend. He does fantastic English dialect
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videos. He's in the UK and I'm bringing him to Borough market.I want to show him around
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the market. We're going to go get some food and he's going to talk to you guys about moving
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to the UK. Now he moved to the UK as a student and I wanted to share his experiences with
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you guys. i know a lot of guys want to move here whether it's to study or to work. So
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we're going to talk about British weather, British food and moving here and what that's
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like. This is going to be really useful guys, so let's get going.
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Alright so I'm here in Borough market with Korean Billy. Welcome Billy. Now Billy lived
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in the UK and I wanted to chat to him about his experiences of coming to the UK and what
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it was like, the culture shock. So, you went to University here right? Billy - Yeah, I
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went to the UK as an exchange student and I used to live in the town called Preston
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in Lancashire. Tom - It's in the north of England. Billy - Yeah it's in the North-west
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but it's not that popular (famous) so maybe people from outside the UK don't really know
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this place. But it's so cosy, peaceful. A nice little town which I really liked. So
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I had a good time there. I stayed there for half a year as an exchange student because
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I did one semester there. It was very nice to live in like northern England. Because
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in northern England people are really nice. So I really liked my experience in northern
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England. Tom - Yeah, I think the perception for everyone is that in north of England people
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are particularly friendly very welcoming, very warm. Not to say that people from the
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south aren't friendly and warm but the north has a reputation for being a bit more friendly.
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Billy - Yeah definitely. Tom - And what was your first impression when you got there in
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Preston? Did you think where the hell am I? Billy - The most important thing was the accent
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actually. Tom - Right. Billy - It was my first time to listen to a real northern accent so
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that was shocking. Tom - Now Korean Billy is famous for doing accent videos. He's done
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some amazing videos of the Liverpool accent well the Scouse accent, the Birmingham accent,
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the London accent. So this was your first time to understand northerners? Billy - Yeah
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Tom - Ok, so could you understand the people around you with the sort of northern accents?
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Billy - At first I couldn't really understand what they were talking about so I just kept
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saying 'sorry sorry pardon me' but after spending like a few months in the UK in Preston i kind
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of like managed to understand the accents. I think that's because I got use to those
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kind of accents. So but in the end I could communicate with northerners even with northern
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accents which was quite fun. Tom - What was the first sort of slang word that you learned
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in English? Billy - I think 'love' People say 'alright love' that was quite weird to
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me. Tom - Yeah so people say it as a term of endearment right just to anyone. If you
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are in the bakery the person serving you might be like 'alright love' which is like 'hi'
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Billy - Yeah Londoners don't really say 'love' Tom - No we don't Billy - It's more like mate
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or something Tom - Yeah 'alright mate' exactly. Alright love, that's amazing! Billy's accents
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are amazing. You do an incredible scouse accent. Can you give us a bit of scouse? Billy- Ok,
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'Alright la, that was boss like.' Tom - It's so authentic, it's amazing. I'm going to link
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some of Billy's videos in the description below so you can check them out. Particularly
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the Liverpudlian one, the road man accent as well which is kind of a London multicultural
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London English. Very cool.
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So we're going to continue to chat and have a walk around. Maybe get a little bite to
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eat? Get some food and I want to show some of the cool stalls here in Borough market.
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Tom - So Billy I also imagine British people are very different to Korean people. In what way
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did you find us different? Billy - My first impressions was like British are quite like
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reserved, quite shy but that was juts because they were just shy. So when you actually like
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get close to a British person, when you make a British mate they are like super cool. Tom
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- Super cool! Billy - They are open to anything and they are really really nice and really
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kind and I think that's because the UK is such an international country so multi-cultural.
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Because of that I think they are open to like anybody from anywhere all around the countries.
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So being a Korean was not a big thing actually in the UK so I could get really get on with
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other British people as a Korean as well. Tom - Oh that's very cool. Yeah I think you
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are right, Yeah Britain and in particular London is such a multi-cultural place that
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yeah everyone from everywhere right? I've talked a bit about in London different areas.
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In fact I did a video with Joel and Lia on their channel about the different communities
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in London. There's a huge Korean community. Have you been there? It's in New Malden. Billy
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- Yeah yeah I've never been there yet. Tom - Ah you have to go. Billy - I definitely
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know that this place is quite cool. Tom - Yeah it's like twenty thousand Korean people live
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there. There's like Korean street signs yeah and I think London is pretty cool like that.
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It has different communities all around Billy - China Town is such a big like area. Tom
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- Yeah exactly, but yet everyone integrates, everyone kind of lives together, it's pretty
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cool. Billy - In the UK I don't really feel like I'm a real foreigner or a total stranger
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because there are many other people from all around the world and British people are quite
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open to that so that's what I really like about that. Tom - And also your accents are
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amazing so you sound like a local whenever you want to be.
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Tom - This is the beautiful thing about Borough market is you get to try the food. So there
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are so many like, people giving you tasters. You we are trying some bread. There's cheese,
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oh my god! You could have a meal just from free tasters. Billy - There's like everything
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actually in this market. Tom - Alright, what have you picked up? Billy - I think it's called
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Tom - Tome, some kind of cheese. Some kind of delicious cheese. Is it good? Billy - Yeah
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it's really good. Tom - See I told you, you get free samples everywhere, try lots of interesting
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food. I'm going to try some as well. Oh yeah, really smooth. Billy - What I really like
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about British markets is, it's like people from all round the world. Like real local
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people come to the UK and they share their own local food. Like for Italian restaurants
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real Italian people serve Italian food and for Thai food real Thai people like cook Thai
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food. Tom - Yeah yeah yeah very true. Billy - That's pretty nice. Tom - And also here
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for example you've got different cheeses but from all around Britain so there's lots of
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examples of regional food as well. So we looked at some sort of sausage place earlier with
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sausages from Cornwall or sausages from Suffolk so again very kind of not international but
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British but also very international as well. Very cool.
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Billy's got his own channel, would you like to explain what it is? Billy - Ok, my YouTube
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channel is just called Korean Billy, my name and I make videos about British accents British
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dialects and a little bit about cultural stuff .So if you are also interested in different
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kinds of British English check out my channel. Tom - Yeah it's fantastic, really good. I'll
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link it just below but until next time guys thank you so much for hanging out with us.
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This is Tom and Korean Billy saying goodbye.
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