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As an international student, you may be worried about your English as I was.
I still remember how I freaked out the first time I took the discussion class, unlike the lecture when we listen to the professors, the discussion is your time to speak out. Even though I had done with all the reading material required before the discussion, I still find it so hard to follow.
When I first arrived as an international student at the University of Minnesota, I was naive regarding the cultural differences that I would face. Being from Canada, I had visited the U.S. on many ocasions and believed it to be not unlike the country I grew up in. It looked the same, sounded the same and I would often forget that I was an international student at all. But then ocasionally, I would be reminded.
English is so hard for every international students. At least that's what I think.