Living in a country where you have to speak a foreign language can cause serious social problems, as well as practical problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge.
It is generally opined that communicating in the native language of a foreign country can lead to trouble while socializing and living there. The question is if it really is the case. In my opinion, it is true to a large extent and indeed can land one in troublesome situations. However, with the invention of Google translate and other language conversion tools, such scenarios can be avoided to a degree.
Wrong pronunciation is One of the prime reasons for day-to-day problems faced with the use of non-native tongue in another country. This is because it can totally change the meaning of a word and can easily confuse local people. This, in return, can prolong communication leading to a totally different outcome than what was desired in the first place. A recent survey highlighted the fact that Spanish people found it extremely difficult to comprehend the Spanish language spoken in Asian accent. Although this can be mitigated by the use of technological translation softwares that can pronounce the word for a person but there is a rare chance of its frequent usage. Therefore, without technology availability, a mispronounced word evidently causes problems in social settings.
Another barrier in speaking a foreign language is the lack of grammatical knowledge. Non-native speakers usually make a plethora of grammatical errors particularly in tenses. Consequently, this renders their speech ineffective in certain practical situations. For instance, instead of saying i will be on leave, someone might end up with a phrase such as i was on leave. Hence, use of inappropriate grammar can inevitably result in an unintentional miscommunication which can cause issues.
To recapitulate, speaking a foreign language while staying in that country indeed results in many communication issues owing to improper pronunciation and grammatical inaccuracy. This can be solved through usage of advanced applications such as Google Translate but it is quite unlikely that it will eliminate the problem.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, really, so, therefore, while, for instance, such as, in my opinion, it is true, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1699.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 316.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37658227848 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18625944313 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582278481013 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.2185798679 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.9411764706 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5882352941 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.47058823529 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.197668615173 0.244688304435 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0594597219853 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0350142094858 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120395059324 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0197289139846 0.056905535591 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => 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.