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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
ID: #877
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Adapting to native country
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Re-adjusting to life in your own country after living abroad for some time is a little like recovering from jet lag after a long fight across several time zones it takes time and research indicates that after 9 years of living in a foreign country you never really do readjust of course things have changed governments of come and gone what you knew as countryside has become a Suburb new technologies have changed the way people go about their daily lives and so on these changes may well have been taking place in your adopted country but they were happening while you were there so you could adapt as you went along. Those are not the main difficulties however it is in the small everyday things that you might experience what is known as culture shock although it's not really a shock but puzzling all the same for example the precise way to behave at a supermarket checkout may have changed and in ordinary conversation the frames of reference have changed and quite often you find that you don't really know what people are talking about even though they are speaking your native tongue.
What does the speaker say are the main difficulties in re-adapting to native country after a long absence?
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