Exercise is a known stress reliever because it tells the body to release powerful, feel good, neurotransmitters into your brain to elevate your mood and manage stress due to homesickness. Homesickness can often be accompanied by sadness or feelings of loneliness. In order to help improve your overall mood, exercising regularly can help. Additionally, coming up with a regular exercise routine can help structure your schedule in your new place, and if you are exercising at a local gym or outdoors, this can be a great way to meet other people. Ensuring that you have time for yourself, and especially time for things you enjoy is a way to relieve stress. Listen to your favorite music or watch a movie. You can even take time to read a favorite book. Giving yourself time to relax is key when you are dealing with the stress of a new place and feelings of homesickness. Other simple ways to enjoy relaxing include a bubble bath, treating yourself to a pedicure, or going to watch a sports game. Taking time to care for your body is an exemplar way to help relieve stress. Not having proper nutrition and sleep can be stressful events for your body. Improper sleep and nutrition will not help when you are already experiencing stress associated with the change of being in a new place. Make sure you are getting adequate sleep, which is about eight hours per night. Ensure that you are getting proper nutrition through fruits, vegetables, protein, and complex carbs. It can be tempting to eat unhealthy when you are stressed such as eating fast food, sweets, or soda. But try to avoid this type of coping because it will only hinder you in the long run. Severe homesickness can be incredibly stressful, even feeling somewhat like grief. You might also experience mood changes, frequent crying, fear, panic attacks, and feelings of helplessness. If you think that your feelings of homesickness have turned into something more serious, or the duration, frequency or severity has gotten worse, you should seek help from a mental health professional. Counselors can help you process homesickness in way that is similar to healing from other losses or grief. And because leaving home might leave you with unmet needs such as help making decisions or organizing or structuring your day, a counselor can help you to find resources to meet these needs to help you to learn skills. Then you meet some of your needs yourself. Keep track of your feelings over a week or two. If you find yourself crying frequently or having panic attacks, for example, you should seek professional help.
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One-sentence summary -- Get moving. Create time for things you enjoy. Care for your body. See a mental health professional.

Listening to Arabic music is a great way to immerse yourself in the language as well as become more familiar with common words and phrases. The typically repetitive nature of song lyrics reinforces the words and phrases in your mind. Major music streaming services typically have an Arabic channel or Arabic playlists. Check with your favorite streaming service to find out what's available. If you happen upon an artist that you like, search them online. You may be able to download their albums or watch music videos for some of the songs you like. Movies and television allow you to listen to more natural Arabic conversations. Many popular movies have also been dubbed into Arabic, so if you find a movie you're already familiar with, you'll find you start to comprehend a lot more of what's going on and what the characters are saying. Fantasy and historical drama tend to be dubbed in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), while contemporary comedies and dramas are usually dubbed in either Egyptian Arabic or Levantine Arabic. Reality television tends to use a limited vocabulary and exposes you to more realistic unscripted conversations. You likely learned how to read in your native language with simple children's books. This is also an effective way to start reading Arabic. Copying the sentences from the stories can help you practice your writing as well. For free children's ebooks, visit http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?langid=309. Visit the Arabic Collections Online at http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/ to access more than 10,000 free digitized books in Arabic. Use sticky notes to write the Arabic word for objects in your home and label them. Every time you see the object, repeat the Arabic word for that object aloud. Over time, you'll come to think of that object by its Arabic name first. This can be a great way to expand your vocabulary as well as get your brain used to thinking in Arabic. Extensive Arabic vocabulary lists are available at http://arabic.desert-sky.net/vocab.html to help you create your labels. Once you've committed your first set of labels to memory, take them off and use different labels. Generally, it's a good idea to go from large to small so you don't get confused about what the label applies to. For example, you might first label your sofa as a whole, then add labels for "arm" or "cushion." Al Jazeera has a website available at https://learning.aljazeera.net/en that offers news as well as basic learning stories and videos in basic Arabic to help you learn the language. From the website, you can also take language level tests or chat with an Arabic teacher. Even if you don't use the video resources, you can take advantage of the online dictionary available on the site to look up words you don't know. Al Jazeera broadcasts and language lessons primarily focus on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). However, you'll also find lessons on Mediterranean Arabic. The ultimate test of immersion is spending time in a country where the majority of the people speak Arabic. Simply sitting at a cafe and listening to the conversation around you can help improve your comprehension. Try to go to a country that speaks the form of Arabic you've been studying, or you may find you have a difficult time understanding people despite your study. For example, if you've been studying Levantine Arabic, you would want to travel to Lebanon or Jordan rather than to Egypt.
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Listen to Arabic music. Watch movies and television in Arabic. Read children's books in Arabic. Label items around your house with their Arabic names. Practice reading and listening comprehension with Al Jazeera. Travel to an Arabic country.