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