Essay practise for CAE exam Why helping immigrants to integrate brings benefits. We live in an increasingly more globalised world. This almost certainly results on larger numbers of people moving abroad in searcj of a better life. Consequently, it is undeniable the necessity of living in harmony in multicultural societies as those we have. I cannot agree more with the point made during the documentary that language should be obligatory to settle in a new country. Although it is true that great part of the language is easily learned by living alongside native speakers, this is an slow process that seldom leads to a proficiency level. Being able to convey one's thoughts to others is the key of integration since it means that foreign people can stop being considered something unknown. for this reason, language lessons should be provided so that immigrants could start with a basis to build up their new net of acquaintances. The documentary also mentioned the enrichment resultant of cultural coexistence of people from all walks of life and with different backgrouds, The fear of the unknown is the strongest point againt immigration, however, trying with foreign recipes or different styles of music or literature are increasingly more common activities, what is just adopting part of a culture. Neighbourhoods formed by multicultural members are bound to lose their prejudices and open their minds to all those new an exotic things. All in all, mixing cultures may well be considered a hard work where not only residents have to make an effort to integrate the strange, but immigrants need to insert themselves in an interily new society while dealing with the distance to their original country. Nevertheless, efforts pay off and we gain far more than that we give.