Case Study: My Three Challenges

My Three Challenges The decision to study abroad fateful decisions that must be carefully taken in as much as possible, and to make sure that you take the right decision, there are a number of important academic and social challenges that must be taken into account. When I came here in United state I faced many problems that need from me patience and challenge. However, for those new students who want to study abroad, there are a lot of challenges will face them, like, how can you understand the American culture? How can you become more independent in everyday life? How can you improve your speaking and listening ability? Is this research I will give the new students …show more content…
From my own experience, I realized that American culture is totally different from Arabic culture in terms of freedom and thought. America is the country of freedom, people in America do what they want if it doesn’t touch the law. For example, in my university, there is a lot of people who talk about the right, the Islam, the injustice freely. Also, what I read about American culture prove to me the big different from the two culture. For example, in America, there are a multiple religions, beliefs, languages, habits etc. People in U.S live freely without any interference from the community, so if you decide to study here in America you must adhere to what you grew up with. The reason of this is because In Arabic culture the freedom is limited and when you come to U.S the freedom might affect you negatively. However, Your challenge will be adapt to American culture by reading about their culture, meet American people and ask them, explore the habits of American. In addition, you can ask the students who come to study in united …show more content…
In my country, we learned and studied English since we were five years old, but we learned how to save the words and the meaning of the word in English not to understand the word. There is a huge different. When we save the words we will forget them quickly, but when we understand them we will understand them forever. However, when I came to America I face many problems like, speak to others, especially the native speaker. My grammar was too bad and my toll words I have are few. My friend advice me to listen to English music and I think this work with me. The more I listen the better I got the language. The article says “music develops literacy skills of children with special needs. The author suggests music teachers to incorporate literacy activities into music lessons with tactics such as using a word wall where the students could write words that they learn in music class.” To explain that, listing to music help you to develop your listing skill and your speaking skills by listing to the lyrics. Also, try to speak with a native speaker, watch movies, try to do write more and read much more. Understand the meaning of the words do not just save the