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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

422. Learning British Dialects with Korean Billy

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

Language, Learning, Pronunciation, Education, Speaker, British, London, Vocabulary, Uk, Grammar, Teaching, Accent, Language Learning, Listening, Comedy, Learn, Podcast

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🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Talking to Billy from Korea about his videos about regional British dialects and accents.

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:20.6

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0:47.0

UK.

0:50.0

Hello everyone. Today on the podcast I'm very glad to be talking to the one and

0:58.0

only Korean Billy. You might already know about Korean Billy because he's recently made a name for himself on YouTube

1:05.8

by producing videos about British English dialects showing and explaining specific words,

1:11.9

phrases and accents that you might hear in different parts of the UK

1:16.7

and those videos are proving to be very popular, especially with people in Britain.

1:21.7

I think the appeal of Billy's videos is that

1:24.2

although he comes from another country, he comes from Korea obviously, that's why

1:29.2

he's called Korean Billy, it would be strange if he came from another country and he was called Korean Billy. It would be strange if he came from another country and he was called

1:34.2

Korean Billy wouldn't it it would be. Anyway obviously he's from Korea he's from

1:38.0

South Korea and I think the appeal of his videos is that although he's from

1:42.3

another country he has really managed to identify a lot of these specific dialect words and pronunciation of these forms of British English that even some Brits aren't that familiar with. Also, Billy just seems

1:56.0

to be a really nice guy who's not only enthusiastic about understanding different local

2:01.2

dialects of British English, but also helping other people to understand them too.

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