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Page 3 - Exercise 4

Listening - life as an immigrant.

Part A - Listen to interviews with two immigrants to the United States. Where are they from?

Huy

• Where you from originally Huy?

• I’m from Vietnam. From Hanoi.

• And when did you move here?

• I came here after I graduated from college, that was in 1998.

• And what you do now?

• I work for a communications company.

• I see, so you’re an immigrant to the United States.

-That’s right.

• What are some of the difficulties of being an immigrant in the US?

• That’s not an easy question to answer? There so many things really. I guess one of the biggest difficulties is that I don’t have any relatives here. I mean I have a lot of friends, but that’s not the same thing. In Vietnam we visited relatives on holidays and weekends. It’s not the same here.

• And what do you miss the most from home?

• That’s easy. My mom’s cooking. There are some great Vietnamese restaurants here. But it’s not the same as my mother’s cooking.

• Ahmed

• Where are you from Ahmed?

• I’m from Egypt.

• And when did you move to the US?

• In 2005.

• Are you studying here at the moment?

• Not now. I moved here to attend college. And after I graduated, I got a job here. I’m working as an engineer.

-Aha, and what was it like when you first came here? Was it difficult?

• Yeah, it was at times. The biggest difficulty I had was with the educational system. Things are very different here. Teaching, everything is very different from what I was used to Egypt.

• And what do you miss the most from Egypt?

• My family and my friends. I try to go home often, but it’s expensive to go back. I have some friends coming to visit next month. So, I’m really looking forward to that.