The Disadvantages of Studying Abroad

Have you traveled abroad? If you have, you must have experienced many things that you cannot do in your country. Why did you decide to go, and how did you decide a country? You might decide it because you heard good stories from friends who went to the country, or you saw pamphlets of the country. However, did you feel the same thing that your friends told you, or did you have only good experiences like the pamphlets say? The country you travel to might be different from your expectations, or you might have bad accidents by chance. Nobody knows what is going to happen during travel, it may not be the wonderful experience it is expected to be.

In the case of studying abroad, this also happens. In addition to this, we do not stay in another country for around ten days as if it were a leisure trip. Rather, it is more than six months, so we cannot conveniently go back to our own countries. We encounter bad experiences because of the gap of cultures and languages, or we just do not suit the country. As I said, we cannot predict until we go to the country and stay. Besides, these bad experiences affect our study. Students who want to study abroad tend to think that there are only good experiences because of the pamphlets. Thus, I want them to know there are not only nice things but also bad things. I am going to discuss three disadvantages of studying abroad, which are difficulty of communicating with people, difficulty of getting used to a different culture, and sticking to people who come from the same region.

The first disadvantage of studying abroad is the difficulty of communicating with people. How do we communicate with people? Of course, we have an ability to speak languages. However, if you had to speak to people who cannot understand your language, what would you do? International students often face this problem. In classes, we sometimes do not know what the teachers talk about, so we would be looking around to see what the other people do, and we miss very important information. We cannot say exactly what we want to say.