Welcome back to the hot topic of studying abroad！ Last time, we talked about the general "soft- ware" needed to havea(success) studying experience overseas, refers to the ability to understand western culture, and problem solving skills when (face) critical situations, etc.
Now,1 will dig deeper into the concept of software".Everyone is talking about culture shock nowa-days, but you may wonder what itactually _(mean). Simplyput: culture shock is the diffi-cultypeople may experience when being exposed and adjusting to a (remarkable) different new culture. Usually, people often go._ four distinct phases: the honeymoon phase, thene-gotiation phase, the adjustment phase and the mastery phase. Culture shock can happen immediately upon your (arrive) in the country.
For international students, perhaps the most direct impact of culture shock is the variety of accents, especially in multicultural countries the U.S. Canada or Australia.There are two main reasons: Firstly, these countries have highly diversifiedgroups of residents from different cultural(background). Secondly, there are many international students fromall around the world every year studying in these countries, so you shouldn'tbe surprised (find) allkinds of unfamiliar accents around the university campus.
