By Honoka Akazawa
Students are interested in studying abroad these days. They have a various of reasons to studying abroad. For example, people have reasons for studying foreign languages, getting ability to think flexibly, training what you want to learn in the best place, and getting unique experiences. It will help you. However, a lot of Japanese people don’t like foreign languages and Japan is an island country. So Japanese people have little chance to speak foreign languages with foreign people. And some people are interested in studying abroad, but studying abroad needs a lot of money and time. So, they give up it. Still, there many effects of studying abroad on young people.
Firstly, studying abroad make you intelligent. When you go abroad, you will learn a foreign language and gain knowledge of the destination. You must speak a foreign language all day, so you will get foreign language skills easily in a foreign country. In foreign countries, you touch foreign language more time. Then you have friends there. You will try to study more and more for communicating with them. And your foreign friends can collect your foreign language. By doing this, you can gain a native sense of the foreign language. And you learn about area’s information, you understand more about foreign country’s good points and your home country’s good points. Making foreign country’s friends is good for you in learning.
Secondly, you can assert yourself well. You may get a lifelong companion during your stay in foreign countries. And you will learn various of communication ways by them. People in Japan and people in foreign countries use different communication ways. In Japan, people are not good at express their feelings, they think modesty is a virtue. However, people in foreign countries are usually assertive, it is just a normal thing for them. Japanese people think modesty is good in Japan, but I think this thinking is dangerous in an increasingly globalized world. So, if you are not assertive, you can’t do it from now on. If you are aware of it, you get the upper hand in socially. Now a lot of companies need capable person who can accept globalization.
Thirdly, you get new values. You can feel what you can’t feel in Japan, because foreign countries have different culture from Japanese culture. It may shocking things for you. For example, people in foreign countries have more sense of discrimination than people in Japan. Then people in foreign countries believe in religious, but a lot of Japanese are not non-religious people. What you think it is obvious is changed by going to studying abroad. Sometimes it makes you irritate during your stay in foreign countries, but it removes stereotype, and you can think flexibly. It is very useful ability in society too.
To summarize, Studying abroad gives you many effects. In conclusion, there are three of effects.
Learning a lot of things that you can’t learn in Japan. Getting skills what express yourself in public. Getting influence from foreign people will broaden your horizons. During studying abroad, a lot of things are happened, and they are opportunities to improve yourself. If you want to get these effects, you should study abroad.
