Come to America

Intro

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• no doubt crossed your mind
• first-hand
• immersed
• by leaps and bounds

• abroad
• opportunity

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As a student of English, it has no doubt crossed your mind to experience the language first-hand, to be immersed in the language and culture by visiting a country where it is spoken natively. I know that my experiences abroad helped to improve my language skills by leaps and bounds. If you are thinking of going abroad, you could do it in several ways: work, study or travel. Listen as I talk with Alejandra, a Costa Rican living in the United States, about her experience here:

Dialog

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Stephanie

Alejandra

Stephanie:  So tell me a little bit about yourself. What’s your name? Where are you from?

Alejandra:  Well, my name is Alejandra. Um, I am from Costa Rica. This is a country in the south of, uh, Central America, close to Panama.

Stephanie:  Great! How long have you been here in America?

Alejandra:  I have been here for almost, uh, 4 months. I arrived in February.

Stephanie:  Great and, um, are you working or going to school or are you traveling?

Alejandra:  I’m working with a company here. Uh yeah, I’m [a] product engineer so we work with microprocessors and computers all the time.

Stephanie:  That’s great! Are there a lot of people from Costa Rica where you work?

Alejandra:  Oh yes… there are almost 20 people there.

Stephanie:  Great. That’s cool. And um if you had the opportunity to come back would you come back?

Alejandra:  Sure. Absolutely yes.

Stephanie:  Ok, good. Well it was nice talking to you!

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