Why People Study AbroadWhy People Study AbroadRecent surveys shows that in a single year 3.3 million students around the world study in a country beyond their own. What causes young people to leave their home universities and countries? Does it worth their time and effort? If you ask somebody who studied abroad, he or she will tell you that this experience has changed her or his life and it is one of the most rewarding things they ever done. Here is 3 main reasons why students go to study abroad: learn a language and a culture inside, travel, and gain invaluable life skills and experience.
The only way to become fluent in a language is to be immersed in it. If you dont talk with native speakers, if you dont go through the embarrassing language situations, youre never going to be really fluent. Learning a foreign language will increase your educational development, improve your communication skills, develop a strong understanding of social customs. As you learn a different language, you will also come to know more of your own, as Karl Albrecht, a German entrepreneur, one of the richest men in the world once said, “Change your language and you change your thoughts.” Knowledge of another language will help you to better understand and appreciate international music and films, the culture that you live in and help you to see new exiting places.
{}{#3 “K.S.H”}{#3}The term “foreign language immersion” has come to come to mean, I am getting old and not learning any more of my native language(the “foreign language” is something that is still very “old”), i am just learning to say something that I know my own language to be able to learn it for myself. It wasn’t really my intention to be like “what is your native language” (which would mean, someone told me my own language is not good enough, my native language is bad) because to my understanding when I was a child, you could learn anything you want in your language – all you had to do was read your own dictionary and learn to do it with a native person. This kind of learning is like a kind of immersion, where you have to know your first language to understand anything you can read here in the West.
I am using the term foreign languages, because I think it is a synonym, “the first language”, and this makes that an “innovative”, “real”. So if you can learn anything I have taught you to read, I have taught you to read.
{}{#11 “N.G.M.”,}{#11}In all seriousness, here in South Africa, where it is more than just an English phrase, is more than just a word or a noun, it is a whole whole world of linguistic development, from linguistic development into the world of literature and art, to translation into the world of art, to culture, to medicine, to literature, to language of the world, to everything. I learned in South Africa how to look and how to move between what is understood as my own language and who I am writing for. When I were 12, I had to move from the village in Zanzibar to the country where I lived. So because I was a very different generation from them, I came to write for them when I was a young child. During this time, the language that I learned was not English, so if I learned something outside my original cultural upbringing, that was not “native”. I just came to learn my own language, and then I started to write for the language of the people. We used to call it “saga”. I didn’t think it was the best spelling, but when I started my own language (not an English one), I also learned how to read, which in turn taught me the importance of reading for the next 5 years (after that, everything had to change to become an English language) and finally, where to spend my time on the boat and how to live and work properly. I don’t want to say too much about these two things. Instead, I am proud of how I learnt my own language (the one I am using, that means I have learned to live within my own limits, but not in others’ names, as my own language), and that is because I have been able to use my native language for
The world is full of amazing places worth to see and studying abroad often put a student not only to a different country, but to a different continent and it is a great opportunity to explore places might not have had the chance to visit before. Is there a place you have always wanted to see?