留学生活丰富多彩，但同时也会遇到烦恼和困难，特别是留学之初。留学的学子们可能会遇到什么烦恼？应该怎样面对这些困难?下面是出国留学网(www.liuxue.86.com)整理的信息，希望可以给大家带来帮助。
Ye Du and Cecilia Miao arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, in 2009 feeling alone and anxious. They spoke only broken English and knew nothing about their new community.
2009年时，杜叶(音译)和塞西莉亚•苗(音译)怀着孤独与焦虑来到美国威斯康辛大学求学。他们说着一口蹩脚的英语，对新的人际关系一窍不通。
Four years later, reported the Wisconsin State Journal, the two journalism majors are channeling their feelings of isolation into a series of YouTube videos to educate their American peers about themselves. These videos explain many of the social and cultural misunderstandings that prevent foreign students, especially those from China, from integrating with the slang-speaking, party-going Americans.
据《威斯康星日报》报道称，这两位新闻系学生于四年后在YouTube上传了一系列抒发留学生孤立感的视频，希望借此能让美国的小伙伴们可以了解一个真实的自己。由于社交与文化上存在诸多误读，使得许多留学生(尤其是中国留学生)无法与爱说俚语、派对不断的美国人融洽相处，而这些视频针对这些误读一一做了解释。
According to the Institute of International Education in the US, foreign students are flocking to the US’ higher education system in greater numbers than ever before, particularly from Asia. Since 2007, the number of Chinese students in the US has grown by around one-fifth or more each year. In the 2011/2012 academic year, 194,029 students from China were enrolled in higher education in the US — an increase of 23 percent from the year before.
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