University of Missouri, Columbia

When I left the States, some friends told me:¨Now you speak like an American. In the first weeks, it always took you some seconds to process what I said to you, now your answers just come out of your mouth instantly¨. I was glad to hear things like that and realized that I learned a great deal during my year in Columbia. That college town is quite close to Saint Louis, the place in the US where people go to learn to speak without accent, to learn the standard American English. I was glad to be surrounded by people like that.

The experience was the same b/c we had US teachers at my host univercity and also had to constantly interact in English back home b/c of the multicultural environment

It helped me of course, I had to write some press stories in English so I had to try harder and harder. Bit I guess I managed as my story was published eventually.

overall good communication... especially with other international student

was pretty good, I had to take English class in my first year

Significantly improved during the study period