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Nowadays many students have the opportunity to study for part or all of their courses in foreign countries. While studying abroad brings many benefits to individual students, it also has a number of disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree?

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In recent years,
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 of
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 that pursue their education in other countries
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 increased. While I agree that studying abroad
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 a lot of positive impacts, I believe that there are
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 negative impacts.
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,
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going overseas to
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 can help
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 to improve
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language
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 skills. If the
students
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study
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at
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the
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 country that doesn’t speak their native
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, they need to learn a new
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 to be able to communicate with other people in daily life. By learning
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,
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 not only can increase their vocabulary but
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 help them to adapt
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 the new culture. Other than that,
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 skills help them to be more confident to make friends with the local
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. Making friends with local
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 make them comfortable to share the problems that they faced in the foreign country.
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,
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 who are studying abroad may face a high challenge due to the cost of living
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the
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foreign countries is really high. For
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 who are facing financial problems, they need to do a
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 job to be able to survive there.
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,
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 may feel tired and do not attend classes at the university.
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 they may fail the exam and may be expelled from the university. In
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 I support
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 abroad is good, but there are challenges that
students
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 may face that can lead to negative impacts.
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,
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 need to think carefully about the consequences that they will encounter before deciding to
study
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 abroad.

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