Study in Europe

4. The language of opportunityLearning a new language - like learning music - requires some effort but is enormously rewarding, and the journey can be as enjoyable as the arrival, as anyone who has embarked on this road can tell you. 8. Prefer active verbs to passiveAnother easy step to clear writing is to use verbs in the active voice (‘the car hit a tree’) rather than the passive (‘a tree was hit.by the car’). Compare these: 
How to prepare for living abroad?Adapting to work in a foreign environment is a skill in itself A person who works for a time in Spain, Romania and Sweden, for example, has learnt to adapt to different cultural patterns and knows how to work best and to cooperate with people there. These are very valuable skills.
Someone working in a Latin country such as Italy, for example, would get used to managing flexibility, so when someone says '5 minutes’, they know that this may not be the same as 5 minutes would be to a German.