The best way for anybody to become educated about the world around him is to experience the world first hand; to see the different cultures and lifestyles up and close. This allows the person to step out of their box; out of their shelter that they know and have learned to be what life is and see a completely different world that might show them how different life can be and how different cultures value different things that might have a big impact on that persons life.
             A person is going to become more educated in the fact that they will have been exposed to different ideas and has learned to see the world though different eyes. They can asses a situation differently with the knowledge that it can be done differently. It can also change the types of decisions that they make, due to what they have learned while in a different country.
             In cases where people are trying to learn a second language the best thing to do, is to visit the country who's language they are studying and stay there for a month or so. This is the best way to learn a new language because they are exposed to this language all day everyday for the next part of their life. People have to adapt hence they learn the language so they can communicate with the people there and they can get what they want to get. They learn the language as it is spoken and not the way that it is taught in a classroom. It's the first hand experience that helps people learn something knew. They have a deeper knowledge of why certain this are said a certain way and they pick up the informal way of speaking the language, which is not taught in a classroom or in any textbooks.
             Watching about a culture on TV can be informative, but actually being among the people is a completely different thing. Being amongst the native people of the country in which they are learning something new about is more than facts on a textbook, it's a first hand
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