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Topic: Exclusive benefits of studying abroad

 

 Students going abroad to study can gain variety of benefits effectively and exclusively, which are not easy to be obtained just being in Korea.

First, as many linguistic knowledge states, "Language" is a subject interconnected with culture. We can learn and acquire one language fully by understanding and experiencing its culture. And studying language with culture also means we can learn it with pleasure and interest. Definitely, this language learning method is something splendid and absolutely meaningful. So if we can take language and culture together by studying abroad, it would be an effective way to acquire a skill of one language. Another benefit is surroundings. Going abroad means everything around you changes. Things like people, conditions, necessities and so much more we would live with. And it also means we cannot help being familiar with and practiced in that language. Particularly, an adolescent period, teenage is a time when they are very sensitive to friends and is when they could be flexible with any surroundings boundlessly. With fixed and unavoidable conditions, students would use and study required language actively and naturally at the same time. Lastly, thanks to being with native speakers, we can tell some slight differences between each expressions, words and phrases. And this grows into knowing the nuance of that language, then nuance becomes the main source of fluency. Clearly, the fluency could be acquired easier than studying in Korea, because students use that language not just in class but whole time when they're awaken.

 To wrap up, there are 3 remarkable benefits studying abroad: studying language with its culture, fixed and unavoidable conditions making us use specific language, learning native nuance and fluency.