Helping migrants in Australia to improve their English: A chat with Dory Wang from SBS Learn English

Moving to a new country is never easy (did someone say culture shock?), but it can be especially challenging if you need to learn how to live your life in a different language when you get there. How will you buy groceries or make a doctor’s appointment? How do you get a job and then, once you have one, navigate the workplace?

Our guest for this episode of Language Chats, Dory Wang, understands this all too well from her own first-hand experience of moving to Australia. However this also makes her particularly well-suited for her role as a Senior Digital Content Producer for SBS Learn English, a free service to help Australian migrants improve their English and live well in Australia.

Dory shares with us her personal story of moving to Australia as an adult, learning English and how she has gotten to where she is now in her life and career. She also tells us about SBS Learn English, the type of content that SBS Learn English provides for the newest members of our community and what makes it different to other resources available for English-language learners in Australia.

Have any questions for Dory or for us? Get in touch or join our Facebook group, Language Lovers AU Community, to connect with us and other like-minded language lovers in Australia and abroad.

Episode Links

• Language Chats Ep #093 - Informing and entertaining Australians in over 60 languages: A chat with David Hua from SBS Australia

• Australian Government - Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)

• IELTS

• Monash University - Master of Communications & Media Studies

• SBS Chinese

• SBS Learn English - Podcasts | Videos | Articles

• Language Chats Ep #103 - Researching language to make society better: A chat with Dr Howie Manns

• SBS Learn English - Pronunciation with Janice Petersen

• Facebook - SBS Learn English

• Find Dory on LinkedIn