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Many people assume that, having used new media operations to obtain an Australian PR through the 188A visa, and having DIY-applied for a UK Innovator visa himself, his English speaking must be great — or at least not his weak point. Actually, my relationship with spoken English is one of love and hate — absolutely a vivid, unforgettable scene along my journey of global living. Come and check out the 9 personal-experience chapters Roger Luo has summarized, and let’s explore together: can an adult, in just 3 months, reach native-speaker-level pronunciation through intensive accent correction? Prologue The biggest worry before venturing into Australia Setting Off Why 8 years in Australia meant never really needing to learn English Frustration The two major bottlenecks of living abroad without English Breakthrough Reaching Band 6 in IELTS speaking in just 3 months, for the UK Encounter Whose shoulders to stand on to make your spoken pronunciation break through Accent Correction An enlightening, eye-opening realization about English pronunciation principles The Secret Learning the ten native-speaker pronunciation methods like learning a musical instrument Lingering Notes Do you actually care whether your English has an accent? Sharing A 3-month intensive accent-correction course, helping more people pronounce English like native speakers Prologue: The Biggest Worry Before Venturing Into Australia Ten years ago, when my wife first proposed that our family immigrate to Australia, I firmly declined. My reasoning was straightforward: at 40 years old, I had severe myopia and didn’t speak English. The thought of starting from scratch to learn English, risking further deterioration of my eyesight, was daunting. Moreover, neither my wife nor our 8-year-old son spoke English. How could we possibly survive in an English-speaking country like Australia? Ten years ago, when my wife first proposed that our family immigrate to Australia, I firmly declined. My reasoning was straightforward: at 40 years old, I had severe myopia and didn’t speak English. The thought of starting from scratch to learn English, risking further deterioration of my eyesight, was daunting. Moreover, neither my wife nor our 8-year-old son spoke English. How could we possibly survive in an English-speaking country like Australia? Prologue: The Biggest Worry Before Venturing Into Australia Ten years ago, when my wife first proposed that our family immigrate to Australia, I firmly declined. My reasoning was straightforward: at 40 years old, I had severe myopia and didn’t speak English. The thought of starting from scratch to learn English, risking further deterioration of my eyesight, was daunting. Moreover, neither my wife nor our 8-year-old son spoke English. How could we possibly survive in an English-speaking country like Australia? After scouting Australia as a travel destination, in order to get my son out of China’s education system as early as possible, I immediately applied for Australia’s 188A visa. In November 2016, our family of three — three plane tickets, three suitcases — arrived in Melbourne, a city with no family or friends. Roger Luo happily discovered that living and starting a business in Australia basically didn’t require English at all. First, official statistics put the Chinese population share in Australia at 5.5%, concentrated mainly in Melbourne and Sydney — though in real life it feels even higher. Take Box Hill in Melbourne, for example, where the Chinese population exceeds 30%: once you’re there, you truly experience that “speak good Mandarin and you can go anywhere in Box Hill without fear.” Second, when it came to Roger Luo’s business, there were plenty of Chinese-run enterprises in Australia. Just by targeting local Chinese people as customers, he easily hit the AUD 300,000 annual revenue requirement needed at the time to convert the 188A visa into PR. Even for local Western businesses — say, a local law firm or a clinic offering branding, marketing, and new-media services — Roger Luo still didn’t need to spend time learning English. He simply hired an international student as a part-time translator for the company. What’s more, an increasing number of local Western businesses have started paying attention to the Chinese market and have staffed up with Chinese employees. Setting Off: Why 8 Years in Australia Meant Never Really Needing to Learn English Frustration: The Two Major Bottlenecks of Living Abroad Without English Roger Luo has run a business in Australia for 8 years without speaking English. How much trouble could that really cause? Abroad, what matters most is finding your own circle — and within a few years in Melbourne, he’d built as wide a friend group as decades back home. Still, living somewhere English is official does create two real bottlenecks: one professional, one personal. Growing beyond the local Chinese business community into Western enterprise required at least conversational business English. Roger Luo learned this while working with the City of Casey government, organizing major China-Australia events — until a delegation visit to Shanghai, when his translator briefly stepped out. He and the lead official just stared at each other, neither able to say a word. Fluent English in that moment could have deepened the partnership significantly. The personal bottleneck is his son. They arrived together, but Xiao Luo’s English long ago overtook his Chinese, while Roger Luo’s stayed frozen in place — still relying on his son to translate everyday things like bank accounts. It quietly nags at him: he never managed to learn alongside his son, to grow together. For a serial entrepreneur who has ventured across the world, language was never really an insurmountable barrier. In 2022, after successfully obtaining Australian PR through new-media operations, Roger Luo wanted to give his son — already attending Scotch College, one of Australia’s top private schools — an even better education. He decided to apply for a top private school in the UK for Xiao Luo. At thehttps://ukschoolsearch.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/65db4dec-39d8-4ad0-b62e-9e93ca064fb9-scaled.jpg19562560