As part of education, students should spend a period of time studying and living in a different country to learn a different language and culture. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.

Most people argue that studying abroad is necessary and beneficial for

students

.

However

, in my view, it’s unnecessary to study in a foreign country just for learning a different

language

and

experience

.

This

essay attempts to evaluate the public argument and explain why it is unnecessary to do so.

Students

would benefit from studying abroad. By exposing to the community,

students

have more opportunities to learn the

language

and the civilization. They could distinguish the cultural differences from the public’s words and actions. Every interaction would be vivid knowledge. It will broaden their sight and collect new information for

students

. By speaking with a native speaker, they might improve their pronunciation and have a deeper understanding of the words.

therefore

, they could speak the foreign

language

more fluently than before.

Besides

, living in a foreign country alone helps them be more self-disciplined.

Students

are trained to schedule their lives and take good care of selves by their lives.

This

is a useful skill for the rest of their lives. Without parents' interruption, they are exposed to society and take their own decision when facing choices. Necessary capacities are built up during the process. On the opposite, it's unnecessary for

students

to live abroad just simply for acquiring knowledge about civilization. Living abroad is expensive in some situations due to the exchange rates and inflation. If a low-income family in Africa support a child to study in the US, they might be bankrupt because the average fees of a transfer programme for two weeks are higher than two thousand dollars. The result would be that they have no access to basic livelihoods. Alternatively, the cost of travelling can be devoted to employing a professional teacher to teach the child. A teacher who can speak one particular

language

fluently and is familiar with the culture could be more helpful and easy for

students

to communicate with.

Secondly

, if the exchange only lasts for a couple of days, the

students

will not

experience

much but just view local historic sites. They do not dive into the community,

in other words

, the teenagers do not have much

experience

. Learning a

language

and adapting to new culture from the beginning need a long term. A conclusion that could be drawn is that the short-term exchange means nothing but creates costs.

In addition

, if

students

do not adapt to a new culture and feel a sense of hostility from residents, they might have trauma and cause a series of mental diseases. The situation is called ethnic discrimination which is quite common over the world. To be more specific, in the US, an extreme example is that a black citizen was accused of what he hasn't done and suffocated because of inappropriate violent law enforcement. The

experience

might have the opposite impact on

students

which shifts their strong desire and destroy their mental health. To sum up,

although

students

could benefit from studying abroad, the cost of studying abroad is much higher than the benefits. It’s unnecessary for

students

to study abroad for improving languages and learning cultures. Alternatively,

students

could make good use of social media in which they could communicate with people from other cultures. Technologies are so advanced now that they could fix distance problems.