B2 English Listening Practice - Living Abroad – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.hey everybody welcome to this b2 English listening practice video you can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak you ready so today I'm gonna talk to you about living abroad I was an expat for a few years so I can offer a pretty good amount of insight into this topic let's start first with the good things living abroad opens up a whole world of new experiences ideas and cultures that you never would have dreamed of if you hadn't moved abroad the second you step off the plane and realize that you're not just on vacation you're in your new home it can hit you like a truck regardless of how much planning you've done and regardless of how much desire you have to live in that new country the reality of it all will strike fear in you but this fear is actually a good fear it's like an exciting fear you've probably heard the expression to have butterflies in your stomach well the experience of arriving in your new country and knowing that you're gonna set up your life there will definitely give you a serious case of the butterflies it's more like giant moths but like I said I consider that a positive another good thing is that hopefully you'll get to learn a new language ideally you'd already have a decent level in the country's language and so being in that country and surrounded by native speakers would be a great way to improve but as you can probably imagine not everyone gets the same pleasure out of speaking a foreign language as I do or other language learners do so this might be a negative for some people and I personally know people that have been living in a foreign country for four five six years and they can barely put a sentence together so my advice to those moving abroad would be to study the language as much as possible before you go because if you arrive in your new country without knowing any of the language you're not just gonna pick it up it doesn't work like that all the talking you hear around you is just gonna be like static noise in the background it won't make any sense to you and it won't help you learn you need to study and get to the level where you can actually understand the message of what people are saying and then you can go out into the real world and pick it up and then you can have fun speaking that language in your new country all right so the biggest negative about living abroad is obviously being far away from your loved ones this one's a no-brainer it's not easy to live far from your family friends it's one thing to move across the country but moving to a completely different country is a whole nother level of difficulty mainly because it's harder to visit each other I know it's not the same as being with them in person but it does help to video chat or even just call your family what do you think about it it's not that different than talking to them face-to-face except for the fact that you can't touch them see yeah that's the hardest part for sure and the other negative thing is that there are always gonna be certain things about the new country or culture that you don't like in my experience I was able to adapt to my new country pretty well but there were some things that I just couldn't get used to things like the low-quality infrastructure the lack of punctuality and some other minor things you should definitely try to adapt as much as possible on your new country but there will be some things that are just too different or that are contrary to your personality that's the reality of living abroad ok so that's all for today leave a comment and let me know if you ever lived abroad before or if you'd like to live abroad I'll see you next video [Music] [Applause] [Music]