How to quickly adapt to life in the United States, integrate into the United States, and make friends?

1. Regarding living habits, you should investigate clearly before studying abroad

Comrade Deng Xiaoping has long said that without investigation, you have no right to speak. If you study in a foreign country and want to integrate into local life as soon as possible, How can you not do some background knowledge about the destination before going there?

To understand American culture and living habits, you can start from the following aspects:

The first is movies, TV series and other film and television works that can reflect American culture. This is the vast majority. It is a way that young people will not refuse to quickly understand the native American culture. Here are some good film and television works recommended:

Movie: American Beauty (1999). What is reflected in the film is an American style painting, which contains social problems such as money worship, sex, drugs, violence, and monotonous life, which are common problems in developed capitalist countries in Europe and the United States. American audiences can easily follow the details in the film. Produces *whispers.

TV Series: Friends. As a life-style sitcom, you can find shadows of the daily life of American families everywhere in Friends. If you watch all of Friends and understand every laugh, you will basically understand the American communication style and humor, and also Can understand the way young people in the United States get along.

Talk show: the Daily Show with Trevor Noah "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah". This talk show criticizes current political news with satire, parody and self-deprecation, and focuses on various celebrities, movie stars, musicians, politicians and writers. It is a window for us to understand the life of American imperialism, and we can also practice authentic American spoken English.

The second is books, newspapers and other reading products that can reflect the culture of American imperialism. Usually before studying abroad, most people will read three types of books. The first type is books for oral English training, the second type is English professional books, and the third type is books introducing the culture of the country.

This article will not go into too much detail on the books on spoken English. I will introduce to you a series of books written by Linda "A Closer Look at America", "Revelation of the Simpson Case", "The President Is..." "Unreliable", "I Also Have a Dream", "Like a Comet Across the Night Sky", this series of books uses a series of stories in the form of letters to clearly explain the basic principles of the American political and legal system. These books are written in simple words Naturally, it is a window for ordinary readers to understand the United States.

Of course, you can also use DuNiang, Zhihu, Google, Facebook and other media to understand American culture.

2. Have the ability to live independently in a strange place.

Theoretical foundation alone is certainly not enough to support your life in the United States. Some life skills are necessary.

First of all, you must have certain communication skills. This does not mean that you have to speak a lot of English. As long as you are cheerful enough and dare to speak enough, even if you only know a few simple sentences in English such as hello, who are you, bye bye, etc., you can still communicate with others through gestures. Barriers to communication.

Secondly, you must develop your own problem-solving abilities. When you go out, you can no longer rely on your parents for everything. For example, you have to learn to wash your own clothes, learn to prepare meals in the canteen, learn to study independently, and learn to shop. You need to try to solve all the problems you encounter. Of course, this does not mean that you should continue to carry it alone when you encounter a problem that cannot be solved. Being independent also includes asking for help to solve the problem.

Thirdly, to be independent, you also need to be responsible and take responsibility for your own affairs instead of criticizing yourself.

3. You must also have an open and tolerant heart to accept new things.

When you first arrive in the United States, you will encounter different situations every day, but we must do as the locals do and respect and tolerate the differences of different cultures.

In the United States, everyone can talk about American politics freely, but it is more taboo in China; in the United States, you need to respect pedestrians when driving, and cars need to wait for pedestrians to pass smoothly before moving forward. In China, running a red light, Everyone is accustomed to the phenomenon of not obeying traffic rules... Chinese and American cultures are very different, and we need to have an open mind to view these new things. We should also go out, enjoy this difference and see the beauty of difference.