You must have gone through a difficult time, trying to learn a foreign language and at the same time adapting to a totally different culture and environment.

也可能都经受了许多困难和挑战，因为既要学习一门复杂的东方语言，又要适应迥异的生活环境，更要了解完全不同的文化，我本人年轻时就曾赴国外留学，对此深有体会；

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Any other environment would have been totally foreign to her, perhaps even frightening.

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