G'day. I'm James. I've taught English for 15+ years to more than 10,000 students. You might know me from TikTok or Instagram, 350,000+ following across socials.
I get what you're going through because I've been there. Just in reverse.
I lived in China for years, sitting at work dinners completely lost, three seconds behind every joke, thinking I'm smart, why do I feel so stupid? My Mandarin was technically fine. That wasn't the problem.
It took me years to figure out it wasn't a language thing. It was a culture thing. The unwritten rules nobody puts in a textbook.
When I came back to Australia, I started teaching here, and I watched smart, capable people go through the exact same thing in reverse. Missing promotions. Eating lunch alone. Smiling at jokes they didn't catch.
So I built Your Aussie Uncle to teach what nobody else does. The stuff that makes the difference between feeling like an outsider and feeling like you belong.