Welcomebacktothehottopicofstudyingabroad!Lasttime,wetalkedaboutthegeneral"soft-ware"neededtohavea(61)___(success)studyingexperienceoverseas,(62)___referstotheabilitytounderstandwesternculture,
Welcome back to the hot topic of studying abroad!Last time,we talked about the general"soft-ware"needed to have a (61)___(success) studying experience overseas,(62)___refers tothe ability to understand western culture,and problem solving skills when (63)___(face) criticalsituations,etc..
Now,1will dig deeper into the concept of software".Everyone is talking about culture shock nowa-days,but you may wonder what it actually (64)___(mean).Simply put:culture shock is the diffi-culty people may experience when being exposed and adjusting to a (65)___ (remarkable) differentnew culture.Usually,people often go (66)___four distinct phases:the honeymoon phase,the ne-gotiation phase,the adjustment phase and the mastery phase.Culture shock can happen immediately uponyour (67)___(arrive) in the country.
For international students,perhaps the most direct impact of culture shock is the variety of accents,especially in multicultural countries (68)___the U.S.Canada or Australia.There are two mainreasons:Firstly,these countries have highly diversified groups of residents from different cultural(69)___(background).Secondly,there are many international students from all around the worldevery year studying in these countries,so you shouldn't be surprised (70)___(find) all kinds ofunfamiliar accents around the university campus.