By Karua Ono
When you say the word “studying abroad” what comes to your mind? Many people might be worried about the cost. In fact, the cost of studying abroad is very expensive and we can study languages by not doing study abroad. Thanks to the Internet, we can communicate with people who live in other countries easily and we can study abroad online at our home country. However, there are many effects of studying abroad on student’s future.
First, studying abroad to study languages improve our language skill. Of course, it is possible to acquire language skills without studying abroad and we can get language certified by studying ourselves but by going to abroad, we will get used to listening to a foreign language by listening to it all day. Additionally, we can learn basic conversation from talking with native speakers and if there are students who is the same generation, we can learn trendy words. It is impossible to learn trendy words from a language textbook, so study abroad is the best way to acquire trendy words.
Second, the experience of study abroad become an appealing point when we do job-hunting. I think that there are a few people who have foreign education experience. If you have this experience, you can talk about abilities acquired by studying abroad, something impressive episode, and how good your language skills are. These episodes might be a hot topic when you have an interview at companies. Sometimes, there is a company incentive for people who have an experience of study abroad.
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other important effect of studying abroad is we can broaden our knowledge by experienced it. There are many people who have different cultures in foreign country, and it cause you to get a culture shock. I don’t think that having culture shock is but thing because this experience will be good for our personal growth. I have been to Croatia for three weeks and spending time with a local family. Then, I got a culture shock there. Getting a culture shock made me confused and it was difficult to accept a different culture. However, thanks to this experience, I could learn new things I didn’t know before.
To summarize, there are many advantages of studying abroad for students. Although the cost of it is expensive, I think it is worth experiencing study abroad. If you are wondering whether to try studying abroad or not, you should try it.
