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Below are questions commonly asked to check one’s readiness leaving their home

country to pursue their education abroad.
Discuss these questions with your partners, and make a reflection.

1. What difficulties do you think you might experience when living away from your

home country town?

2. How homesick will you be?
How often do you intend to

phone home to your family and
friends?

3. Apart from family and friends,

what else do you think you will
miss from home?

4. How easily will it be to make friends? Are your new friends more likely to be from

your host country or other foreigners like yourself?
5. How easily do you think you adapt to new situations? How independent are you?

6. How different do you think the organization of life on your new campus will be

compared to your university/campus back home?

It’s crystal clear that studying abroad is a once-in-a-lifetime experience making people have
a wonderful opportunity to develop themselves academically and socially. Having all the

questions discussed leads to an importance of having adequate preparation before studying
oversea. Among others, good communication skill in English is significantly needed to enable

them communicate with people around them. Therefore, this book is intended to help

students who’ll attend university abroad develop their communication skill in English to
enable them interact well with people at campus using their English.

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