Some people say that the only reason for learning a foreign language is in order to travel or to work in a foreign country. Others say that these are not the only reasons why someone should learn foreign languages.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion
There are numerous languages globally and being able to communicate effectively with foreigners makes ones stay abroad exciting and easy. It’s argued that only working or travelling overseas makes one to take up foreign tongues. This essay discusses this claim and also explain that there are other reasons why international languages should be learnt. To my mind, expressing oneself in a foreign way should not be limited to the need to be abroad as the language can be used even in one’s own country.
The obvious argument has been that learning an international language in one’s locality can end up to be a waste. It has been reported that any skill acquired and not used for about 2 years can easily be forgotten. Thus, if one invests in building one’s foreign language capability and was unable to speak this language with anyone for more 2 years, the language can be forgotten and every resources put into this investment will be wasted. Thus when a new language is learnt, it is highly recommended for one to have people who can be communicated with in the language. Moreover, most foreign employees now look out for people who are not just skilful on their job but they prefer to recruit multi-skilled talents who can communicate efficiently with other co-workers. This makes the adventure of learning new language for the purpose of travelling worth exploring.
Contrary to this opinion, I think speaking a foreign language doesn’t really require one to travel abroad. Jobs like language translators, linguistics, teachers and international relations managers in ones’ indigenous country requires expertise in foreign languages. These careers which requires international languages are rewarding and can give satisfaction to the employee and foster relationship with other countries thereby help in economy development of a nation. Furthermore, learning other languages can also help increase ones’ knowledge about the world at large. For instance, when I learn a language spoken in another country, I will have a better understanding of the country’s culture and even history.
To sum up, acquiring knowledge of languages spoken abroad should not be limited to the purpose of traveling or doing an international job but this can be a good means of living in ones’ country and help in understanding human race better.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, moreover, really, so, thus, for instance, i think, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2007.0 1615.20841683 124% => OK
No of words: 377.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32360742706 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02292786207 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541114058355 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 629.1 506.74238477 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2080891187 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.4375 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5625 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.875 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225528967168 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0925702763885 0.084324248473 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0383210680315 0.0667982634062 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145064068945 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0671302052001 0.056905535591 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.