The Studying Abroad Experience

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The Studying Abroad Experience

Every experience in life makes a person learn and gain a lot of things (Byram & Feng, 2006). It was a fine sunny morning in Saudi Arabia, I was at home, and as it was Sunday. On the breakfast table, my father informed me about his plans regarding me and my future. In his mind, he thought that it was appropriate for me to choose a global career than a local one. He started up the discussion, with defining the benefits of studying abroad. According to his point of view, through studying abroad I will learn a different language by spending prolonged time in the environment, where international students get the chance to develop their language skills by studying abroad.

In such a way different from their own when forced to communicate it will help me in broadening my foreign language skills. Secondly, in familiar setting I will get to receive a type of cultural exposure as students glean from their experienced of living under the wisdom of having a better perception of the world around them, the confines of foreign culture and to value communal differences such as economics, lingo, cuisine, etc (Hayden & Et.al, 2007). He told me that it will help me in achieving a level of social maturity, as communication with ease is not easily achievable under the pressure of living in an different environment, and I will not be able to learn such social maturity domestically. According to him, in today's competitive job market, being socially assertive is essential for an aspiring young adult that what I will gain by communicating to different people of foreign culture.

In the future, about a student applying for a job, I can achieve a very eye-catching feature with reference to an academic standpoint, as the requirement for culturally intelligent individuals is flourishing and companies for increasingly global. A person who has an appreciation of international culture and has experience with the foreign language is usually appealed to employers (McKeown, 2009). The practical knowledge, people and memories will be eternally engrained if I choose to study abroad in compare to my chance to understand the world will be restricted to personal availability and limited money, for when the weight of responsibility will hit. In the last, my father told me that he completely understand it will be a tough challenge for me ...