Study in Europe

5. Investing in languageSome individuals learn a language for purely practical purposes. 'I learnt French for strictly professional reason sand as a means of communication with the inhabitants of the country I live in,' explains Angel, a Bulgarian IT specialist who lives in Belgium. 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.

Estonia - Estonian saladRosolje
INGREDIENTS (serves 4)
• 500 g of soused herring fillets (maatjes)
• 500 g of cooked stewing beef
• 5 cooked red beetroots
• 3 cooked potatoes
• 3 large sweet or sweet and sour gherkins
• 2 small apples
• 12 hard-boiled quail’s eggs
• 2 onions
• 25 cl of double cream
• 15 cl of single cream
• 3 tablespoons of mustard
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• Salt, pepper and chopped dill