Why People Study Abroad

Recent 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 don't talk with native speakers, if you don't go through the embarrassing language situations, you're 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.

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?