870. Kate Billington moved to Taiwan 🇹🇼

Returning guest Kate Billington suddenly decided to move to the other side of the world, to Taipei in beautiful Taiwan. In this episode we talk about meeting LEPsters in Taipei, her decision to move there, and how everything is going, with the usual conversational tangents along the way.
👉 Episode page on my website teacherluke.co.uk/2024/02/26/...
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:44 Conversation starts
1:18:18 Rambling and reading listener comments

[@shih-hsunlin5824]

Here is the subscriber from Taiwan!!! Welcome Kate coming here and It is really ecstatic to see Luke talking about Taiwan!!!

[@Broksmok]

Sounds great! Hello from Russia We hope in Taiwanese Democracy!

[@user-vv4ml4sb3i]

Taiwanese listener here!!!! Welcome Kate hope you have a great time in Taiwan.

[@tracy01049]

Hello, Luke! I am a LEPSTER from Taiwan. It's amazing to discover that many people here in Taiwan listen to your podcast. I appreciate your kind and knowledgeable efforts, and listening to your podcasts has become a daily routine for me. Although I rarely need to speak English in my daily life, I believe learning English is like exercising - it requires persistence and regular practice. Thanks again for your informative content at various levels. It really helps me improve and is interesting enough to keep me listening.

[@user-gd4tx2ou4u]

Hi, Glad to know that you are a regular listener. Luke is so nice speaker and even I have been benefited so much from his episodes. Keep Going. For me, listening to his episodes is like a hobby and it feels good and satisfied.

[@kiunyuchan]

Hi, Taiwanese subscriber here. Great great great welcome for Kate coming to Taiwan.

[@user-un3sv2ls7n]

Hello teacher Luke 👋😊 First of all,Thank you for the tremendous effort that you're putting into your work! It's highly appreciated ☺️ Also, I would like to emphasize on the fact that your podcast isn't only serving its main purpose but also being a great companion for some people who are struggling in life either with health issues...Like me ..or with something else. Personally, it's helping me coping with whatever I'm going through. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. Ps. Sorry for the mistakes, I'm still working on my English. With love and peace from Algeria 🇩🇿❤

[@ilovepenguin7482]

I’m the new audience from Taiwan. Love your English podcast, Luke. Welcome Kate ❤

[@user-hp8sw6zs7p]

Welcome to Taiwan! Enjoy the food and the culture ,especially the passion Taiwanese have for those friends who come here from all over the world.Visit not just the night markets,but the countryside as well. There definitely will be surprises waiting for you everywhere.Enjoy your stay.

[@user-yv5lu1qn3u]

Taiwanese listener here! Welcome Kate hope you have a great time in Taiwan 🎉

[@chicagamertw]

So happy to hear that Kate is now in Taiwan! Wecome to Taiwan!!!

[@Carolline323]

Welcome Kate to Taiwan. I have been Luke's listener for many years.

[@Alfonz15]

Luke and Kate, thank you both for this conversation. I was waiting for this. Kate the Cake Queen, I hope life treats you well in Taiwan😊.

[@wangisu6364]

Hi Luke, good day🥳~ Welcome Kate❤. Enjoy your time here in Taiwan😊.

[@ac1_austin851]

Taiwanese listener here!!! Ur biggest fan here😎 Can't comment on Spotify btw, so here I'm!

[@at6051580514]

Hi, Taiwanese subscriber here! Welcome to Taiwan!!!

[@Iambreach]

Hello Luke appreciate that u make this video for us thx u so much for this I will do my best practice this lesson.

[@Liz-dj2up]

Hello from Taiwan! It’s always enjoy to listen and also watch Luke English Podcast 😊 And yes, I am Taiwanese ❤ Welcome to Taiwan!

[@Rita-bw3wh]

Hi Luke, I always enjoy listening to your podcast. It was a pleasure again with Kate. I agree with many of your followers. Your podcast is simply the best, also because Luke the person always shines through. ❤

[@ionela_andreea30]

Yeyy,a new lesson🎉! Hi Luke! How's life treating you? Thank you for this natural and spontaneous conversation💙! I'm looking forward to listening to the short story episode😁.

[@jsteahouse]

Welcome Kate! Luke, hope we can see you here doing stand up!😄

[@yenamy5065]

Welcome to Taiwan! 🥰

[@ferigol9993]

Hi Luke, honestly it is my biggest dream that I could talk as fluent as you one day. Any way I am strong fan of your videos.❤ thanks a lotttt.

[@uksubhanart_]

Well done! Definitely that’s a great opportunity 🎉

[@abbasjameel5056]

Thank you for your time

[@roohital1074]

Thank u luke,It was quite informative, i enjoyed d full episode despite its length to get d precious information.

[@lorenzojaviertorressaavedr3900]

Great and inspiring conversation as always, Luke. Thank you so much!!

[@valeriigoikhman1650]

And thank you for your reply

[@DennyYang6TW]

Lovely to receive this updated episode that captures Kate's new life here in Taiwan. As a Taiwanese, I'm really happy and excited to hear more about her life later on the podcast!!!!

[@zeinabrezaee3911]

You both are so nice and it is so fun listening to you 🎉🎉🎉❤

[@MukeshMeena-bc4en]

Great work young man ,a wonderful thanks for you to

[@IRITanz]

She's got a lovely voice

[@werayutsapso2764]

You’re a great teacher 👍👍❤️❤️❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️ nice video I like thank you for this videos ☕️☕️🍀🍀🍀

[@werayutsapso2764]

ขอบคุณจากใจจริงครับ 🍀🍀🍀

[@yavuzselimoksuz6795]

we like short story episodes with vocabulary explained ones thanks a lot

[@QuangNguyen-md8ky]

Great, there's gonna be a playlist for Kate Billington on Luke's English Podcast soon

[@Astor2639]

Taiwanese Lepster here!!! Welcome Kate to Taiwan! Enjoy the beautiful people and food here😊 I'm sure you will love them!

[@jyotichauhan6679]

THANKS MUCH FROM INDIA FOR MAKING THE LANGUGE LEARNING SIMPLE AND INTRESTING. BEST WISHES

[@nasortrust8823]

Hey Luke, I've just finished listening to this episode.. and I have share it with friend of mine from Taiwan, and it turns out that she also had been subscribing to the Luke's English podcast😅 thank you for your work

[@tangrira8114]

I'm one of the Taiwanese audience! Welcome Kate to Taiwan and hope you enjoy it here!

[@twppqqr]

Welcome to Kate. Thanks Luke, I am intoxicated by your beautiful English pronunciation every day. I look forward to one day being able to 100% understand your videos.

[@natalyam2177]

Hi Luke! Great episode, Kate is so nice and smiling ❤ I've realized that it's much easier for me to speak English during my tchatting sessions after listening a lot of native conversations! I used to listen to your podcast a lot a couple of years before, so I'm happy to restart doing it. Thanks a lot ❤

[@Renata-cd4fo]

Long term Taiwanese listen here too👋 So excited hearing Luke mentioned Taiwan 🇹🇼

[@ashraifzadi7408]

Good job 👍

[@teresa86114]

Welcome Kate to Taiwan! Here the most wonderful place is in the world.

[@soroarhossain1769]

Hey Kate It's been a long time, no new episode. Good to see you with Luke. Very healthy conversation.

[@greghuanghuang-ds1om]

Welcome Kate to Taiwan.🎉

[@BBlin_0518]

Welcome Kate🎉🇹🇼❤️ As a Taiwanese lepster, I was incredibly surprised and excited to see "Taiwan" shown in the video title😆 To be honest, I've been a ninja here for about 3 years since I started listening to LEP. I think it's the perfect time for me to show up from the shadow😝

[@user-hy8lt8hz8v]

Your podcast is awesome

[@IRITanz]

Hi Luke, hope all is well. Thank you for your lovely padcasts. Could you please do a padcast about how we can overcome being stuck at an intermediate level?

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Hi, I did a couple of episodes about breaking the intermediate plateau a few years ago. They're not on KZbin but you can listen to them here 👇 Part 1 teacherluke.co.uk/2016/10/05/385-breaking-the-intermediate-plateau-part-1/ Part 2 teacherluke.co.uk/2016/10/05/386-breaking-the-intermediate-plateau-part-2/

[@IRITanz]

That's great, thank you

[@rybwarkadir5700]

Good luck, Kate Billington xx

[@annna_sara]

I'd also like to move somewhere for 2-3 years, and I have feeling that your podcasts are becoming more common understandable for me lately,even sometimes I can catch a sence of your joking)) thank you Luke and thank your guests

[@user-yv5lu1qn3u]

Hi Luke and Kate, I'm a Taiwanese potter. We design round shapes for winter vessels because the closer and inward rim can hold the temperature better, also the thicknesses of them are normally greater compared with those for summer. What Luke said in the video contributed to the effect as well.

[@user-nl9ud2bd6s]

Hello Luke, welcome to visit Taiwan someday. Love from Taiwan

[@VictorTai8899]

Welcome to Taiwan.🎉

[@fanc21188]

I'm not a skeleton hahaha. I am a Chinese girl but I am in Peru now, working as an international volunteer but worry about being jobless afterwards, I did not expect that at all before I left China. Anyway, your podecast is the best, I have known so much about UK, I have improved my English, will keep up with your podcast!!

[@fanc21188]

My name is Chen :)

[@mollietai8946]

Welcome to Taiwan, Kate! I feel like a million bucks today.

[@Guide2English]

Good work bro

[@karichang6164]

Good video!

[@yavuzselimoksuz6795]

Who is this beauty🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤

[@pgong415]

wow ! kate has gone to TW, amazing!

[@tingyuchen5293]

Taiwanese subscriber too, Welcome to Taiwan. :)

[@angelalyashko7919]

A very sad story about loosing the train from Kate. I like when she is on the podcast.

[@user-ru7rk9xl3z]

Audience from Taiwanese here !!! Welcome Kate to Taiwan !

[@kostas9216]

kateeeeeee i have been waiting this video to see u again!!very excited!! i guess i have a crush on you!cheers from athens! nice episode luke!

[@user-ns8hk1vo1d]

Hi,I am a listener from Taiwan

[@sherazburney9419]

hi luke hope u r doing great luke ur accent is very clear i can understand each an every word uttered by u but at the same time i listen to other podcast from the uk to understand him or her is very difficult

[@Megumi97C]

Have just listened to this on Podcast few days ago but think I want to come here to leave comment! So to response to the late opened coffee shop situation, I think there's two reason about it haha 1. The coffee from convenient stores is too good and cheap so the coffee shop in the morning might be hard to compete. if opened in the early morning. (and most of the convenient stores in Taiwan are 24/7!!!)(I miss it so much) 2. Taiwan's work-life balance is sadly bad. Many people need to work till late night so they need to go to a coffee shop or grab a coffee late to keep them awake and work. It's almost impossible to see in the UK. But overall, I believe Kate would love Taiwan as it's a liberal and friendly country!! Welcome xx

[@smshydarah1896]

Where is the Unicef episode.. Please it's a good one i listening to it on podcast. Now i need it on video youtube.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Sorry but there is no video version for that, but it’s ok if you can listen to it, isn’t it?

[@user-id2rj7zc1v]

The mug is Baymax ❤

[@teddyfong3404]

Welcome to taiwan. Kate

[@UnconditionalHappiness]

My brother 's wife is a Taiwanese, and I'd like to travel to the country ❤

[@vitaliik.9816]

Hello Luke!I just wanna say…I’m not a skeleton with headphones! Grateful to having your podcast in my life.Bye-bye-bye…

[@gD-cp3cg]

Kate amazing, you are welcome at anytime in France. Your story in the metro just really funny. Tu as raison en France parfois la signalétique est mauvaise.😉

[@yokai9310]

wtf It really shocked me. I'm from Taiwan, and I watched the video every time.

[@elaine7832]

Welcome to Taiwan

[@user-yr3lc1cf1w]

Enjoy the life in Taiwan!!!

[@esraalev]

How did you not know that Luke lived in Japan, Kate? :))))

[@kaylee6335]

Thanks Kate for your sharing. Sometimes go somewhere else in the world and have a reset of life would be a solution to many problems.

[@shuherrr2159]

I definitely like her cup😊

[@yuhaohsu9005]

As a Taiwanese, I do not think that we are a normal country currently. Legally, we still require independence.

[@krishu4403]

Here is the subscriber from Taiwan too

[@Unique_mineral]

Spherical mug keep tea warmer due to low surface area to volume ratio and heat transfer rate depend on surface area.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Yes I thought so

[@Unique_mineral]

@@LukesEnglishPodcast yes you are very right, you also know physics as well.

[@techstudio6293]

Hello Kate

[@ionela_andreea30]

I wonder if there are any Romanias 🇷🇴 apart from me listening to Luke 🤔.

[@NicaVero_]

Yees🙂 Romanian is my native language and I'm in love with this podcast🥰 I think there should be more Romanians here, but the're probably ninjas🥷

[@ionela_andreea30]

@@NicaVero_ I'm glad I'm not the only one😅. And of course some Romanians are ninjas, they usually don't like to stand out, wheres I proudly say I'M ROMANIAN😊. Have a good one!

[@user-fy3ty1tq1g]

Hello from Germany. I have accidentally ended up here and found out that Luke actually lived in Japan where I'm originally from! So yeah, I can see that you English chotto dekimasu ne!

[@toshiono1989]

Has anyone read the book, Time traveller’s wife? Please comment down below. I want to know the synopsis.

[@meltemulas4926]

A big warm hello from Taiwan 🇹🇼 i ´ve been a persistent Ninja listener for a year, since i moved to Taipei, but now the time has come for me to go public. Dear Luke i really dońt know where to start and to end. I will write you an e-mail. I can ´t beleieve that you are talking about Taiwan. Kate i will find you 😂 Where is your stand-up show ??

[@user-kb3yk9ku3s]

I realized i had new hobby in my list. it is ^_* whaching luke ingelish bodcast

[@yavuzselimoksuz6795]

You are so lucky dude🎉😂😂😂

[@bsbyaa]

Taiwanese listener here

[@gD-cp3cg]

Haaa Luke la France te regarde mais les listeners sont spread all over France. Your podcast is good. I listen and watch a lot of things on youtube. Vanessa in USA, Bob In canada, Rich Roll in USA, Doctor Chatterjee in UK, Lewis Howes in USA, Hadar is good as well, she has moved in Barcelona. Moi je n'ai pas de tv, j'habite Angers et j'aime regarder des vidéos sur youtube. Daniel with Mossy bottom as well is a good person. I like to watch Huw Richards on the garden from Wales.

[@elmayalopes3815]

Asking, asking , the oral communication is the best . Don't be shy .

[@user-pz2ws6pn8q]

I’m sure you guys definitely have noticed that rounded mug is apparently a Baymax one.

[@user-et1bh2sd1s]

Enjoy your life in Taiwan.

[@user-qs6yt3oq5s]

Welcome, Kate! I guess we Taiwanese are used to have coffee at home or get it from 7-11.😉(Rush to the office!)

[@MRaquelGarciaValero]

❤

[@Shawnhyyt]

So surprised that Kate complained about cafe in Taiwan. I think it is more than easy to get a cup of caffee at 7 a.m. Totally no problem. Of course there is not English breakfast everywhere. But you can get all kinds of breads, croissants, bagels, and local style bereakfast. Definitely, all around, especially in Taipei.

[@cinnamontea1607]

Let Luke tell us about his show in Japan please 🥹

[@antinkuntin5452]

Luke, could you please share your videos in 2 parts if they are longer than 60-70 minutes? It would be much easier for us to listen in 2 parts. 👍🏻

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

But KZbin saves your position so you can choose when to stop and then return to the video and continue later.

[@antinkuntin5452]

Yeah thanks but that’s not the case. I usually listen to your videos before going to sleep. After about 30-45 minutes I fall asleep :) When I get up I feel uncomfortable in my ears.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

@@antinkuntin5452 You can set a timer on your phone to automatically stop after a certain amount of time. How about that?

[@antinkuntin5452]

@@LukesEnglishPodcast Well, then I wake up from sleep and then maybe can't go back to sleep :) Yeah, I thought, if you don't mind to split it into 2 parts. Like you do in some of your videos. Maybe you want do a Pole and ask the people here; what about that? :) PS: I admire your work 🤘🏻

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

@@antinkuntin5452 Actually you can set your phone to just stop playing. No alarm, just keep sleeping peacefully.

[@phoebe6543]

I quite believe there has a lot of listeners from the mainland China . However the VPN will be assigned to the other location.So it is hard to calculate.hahah I guess …..😅

[@santalicartoonandcomics8397]

I would love to see you in India.

[@mysteriouscreature6249]

Yo luke, I don't know, you watch foreign language films. I recommend you and lepsters "the promised land 2023" danish movie, stars mads mikkelsen, a period drama film- realistic acting, good pace, it has some violence.