Kate Billington
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701 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Kate Billington’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
On a small road, you can kind of cross wherever's convenient, but definitely on a road with double lanes of traffic, people absolutely wait for the green man.
And the green man here, he moves.
His legs move like this.
And there's a countdown as well.
And when you've got less time left, he goes faster.
He starts running.
It's really cute.
But apparently they're going to phase it out.
They're going to get rid of it, I heard.
No, no, you don't see it to the same level at all.
I think, but I think Taiwanese people, I had a Taiwanese student once a long time ago who told me that Taiwanese people are like the Italians of East Asia, which she meant that they are the most kind of expressive people.
of all the kind of East Asian countries, which I guess, you know, you'd include like South Korea, Japan, China, um, and other countries nearby, you know.
Um, and when I moved here, I did notice that people are, people are quite expressive, I would say.
Um, but I think they don't tend to express much anger.
It's very unusual to hear someone like shouting or people kind of arguing, um,
But again, you know, my Chinese isn't perfect.
And also I'm only, you know, I'm only seeing sort of certain parts of society.
So I can't say that's a rule all over.
But I would say, yeah, less so than in French culture, where I think it's, I think French people can be quite direct.
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