Coffee, Cats & Conversation ☕️ Kate Billington’s 900-Day Streak in Taiwan [991]
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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[991] A conversation with English teacher / comedian / cake maker Kate Billington, talking about her academic qualifications, cutting edge subtitling technology for theatres, questions of teaching English including teaching in Taiwan vs in France, Kate's tips for language learning, a cat-village in Taiwan, traffic madness, earthquakes, signage in train stations, using flashcard apps to learn English, testing Kate's Chinese by making her translate jokes, and drinking coffee in Taipei! Just that! Check out P81 a premium episode with vocabulary review for this conversation.
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| 0:28.7 | Dot UK. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:39.4 | I hope you're doing fine. |
| 0:40.7 | Joining me on the podcast in this episode in order to record some English conversation for your listening pleasure is returning guest, Kate Billington. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello. |
| 0:53.2 | Why are you making a noise? What noise are you making, Luke? Come on. You've got to know what that noise is. |
| 0:59.0 | What's that? I can't hear it. What could that be? That's the sound of a huge audience of people all applauding, clapping and cheering. |
| 1:07.4 | I can just see you moving towards your microphone and back again. I couldn't hear |
| 1:12.4 | anything. You couldn't hear anything. Okay, sometimes this recording platform that we're using |
| 1:18.8 | cuts out, there's got filters which cut out background noise and things like that. So you couldn't |
| 1:24.1 | hear my amazing impression of a huge crowd of people all applauding all at the same time. |
| 1:30.2 | I thought you were going to do a voice and say my name. That's why I didn't say anything. |
| 1:35.9 | No, no, no. I was doing an incredible sound effect, which when this is finally put together, |
| 1:40.2 | you'll be able to enjoy it. And you can wait you should in fact say something like oh my god |
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