Advice to international students

                As we know, starting a new language, you have to have four skills which are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among them, the most useful skills are listening and speaking because of they are the key to start communicating with people. And also, listening and speaking are most difficult for international students to study and practice. The language environment is a big problem.


                When I was in my country, studying English meant go to an English class, did grammar practice and wrote an essay to learn vocabulary. So there was a common problem, students could not open their mouths! Every time I tried to talk with foreigners, my brain turned blank and felt nervous. Even though I spoke something, I felt that the English speaking person could not understand what I meant. That really made me unconfident and spoke less and less. After discussed with my friends, I found out that I am not the only person who had that kind of experience. As a result, I decided to go aboard to study real English. What I need was an English environment and even breath "English style air" every day.


                For the first couple of weeks here, I felt quite nervous to talk with people. What's more? It's really hard for me to hear clearly people's regular speed of speaking! Being unconfident and shy by nature, made me always feel embarrassed. I turned to ask friends to helped me, for example, order food, buy books, talk with teachers and so on. But my teacher told me that I have to leave my friend to be independent. Slowly and slowly, I found that I do not need my friend to help me any more. I can order food myself, go shopping myself, communicate with people confidently and naturally. I am not sure from what time, I began to use English everyday and never feel uncomfortable. The advantage of learning English is obvious.


               I will never forget that how much people helped me on my way learning English. People in the US are friendly and easy-going. For instance, every time I meet people on the street, they always smile and say hello to me. Teachers are very patient to answer our questions even though it was a quite a stupid question from my eyes now. If I was lost, people would stop their work and take me to the place. All the things above make me feel that I am not a stranger here. Therefore, I really suggest international students come to study in the US. If you are a person like me----want to enhance yourself, challenge yourself, have dream, the US is the only place can make your dream come true!