Bonus episode #120 – Time to say goodbye

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🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Andrew talks about saying goodbye to an expat friend who is leaving Korea after many years. He shares his opinion about the differences between expats and immigrants, and discusses the challenges of maintaining friendships as a long-term foreign resident in South Korea. Andrew also talks about ever-changing social circles for immigrants and the sad but true reality of friends returning to their home countries.

This episode will help you improve your English in the following ways:

* Listening practice: You'll hear a native English speaker discuss social dynamics and personal relationships, improving your understanding of spoken English in a cultural and relationship context.
* New vocabulary: Learn words and phrases related to immigration, expat life, cultural adaptation, and social relationships.
* Useful expressions: Understand common English idioms such as "chew the fat," "down with that," "plant some roots," and "ghettoize" in real-life contexts.
* Cultural insights: Learn about the experiences of long-term foreign residents in South Korea, giving you vocabulary to discuss immigration, cultural adaptation, and international friendships in English.
* Pronunciation: Listen to the correct pronunciation of expressions and vocabulary related to immigration, cultural differences, and everyday social situations, which you can practice yourself.
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0:00.0	So the story that I have for you this week everyone is a sad story.
0:06.0	Not really too sad actually in a way if you think about it. It is actually a positive story and I'm very happy for one of my colleagues, one of my friends,
0:16.0	but in a way it's also a sad story and I think you'll see why I'm saying it's a happy and a sad story here at the same time after you finish listening to the whole story.
0:27.0	So let me start at the start by saying that now I have been a long-term foreign resident of Korea. I've been here over 10 years and it's
0:38.9	interesting the way that different foreigners who live in Korea identify themselves and think of
0:45.1	themselves. I have some people who I know who have lived here in Korea as
0:49.9	foreigners meaning they're not Korean they come from a different country, and they've lived
0:54.8	here for longer than I have, 15 years, 20 years, really long-term residents in this country. And some of them think of themselves as expats, expats.
1:08.6	Expats is a word in English that I guess is short for X-Patriot but we don't really ever use that we only say
1:16.8	expat and what expat means is it's just a term that we give to people who live overseas that have moved away from their home country
1:27.2	and live in a different country usually to work or play sometimes, you know, if you're retired and you're not really working anymore,
1:35.8	you're just kind of hanging out and doing your retired lifestyle.
1:39.4	You can be an expat in that situation as well, but I think the word expat is usually associated with a kind of short-term stay.
1:50.8	Like an expat has a goal of eventually returning back to their home country.
1:56.8	I think that is at least the feeling, the nuance that I get from the word.
2:02.2	And it's interesting, we have this other word in English, which you are probably more familiar with, and that is immigrant, immigrant. And of course an immigrant is a person who leaves their home country and goes and works or studies or retires in a different country as well.
2:19.0	But I think the difference between an expat and an immigrant is just the length of time that you will stay.
2:27.6	Like an immigrant, of course at any time for many different reasons,
2:32.1	somebody can move to a different country and then go back home, go back to their home country, right?
2:37.0	Of course, that happens all the time.
2:40.0	But to me, the difference between these two words, words is like an expat is thinking about going home at some
2:46.2	point in the future, whereas an immigrant is like I'm going to a new country, I'm going to settle
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