Some people say that the only reason for learning a foreign language is in order to travel to or work in a foreign country. Others say that these are not the only reasons why someone should learn a foreign language. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
It is often believed that the primary purpose of studying a foreign langauge is travelling to or working abroad. However, other thinks that there are other reasons. In my opinion, aside from travel or work-related purposes, learning a new language enables someone to learn and understand the culture and history of other country.
On the one hand, some people argue that the main objective of learning a foreign language is to give them a head start when they tour to a new place. Moving around in a completely strange place is quite frustrating especially when the locals do not speak the universal language, which is English. If visitors are able to communicated with the local people using some basic Spanish, for instance, touring around will be more comfortable and safer. Moreover, If a person plans to work and live abroad, he should have a formal education of the language used in that specific country. This will ensure a greater opportunity in landing a decent job. In addition to that, speaking like locals only proves that you are willing to embrace their nation, thus, gaining great trust amongst the people.
On the other hand, others believed that there are far more reasons in studying a foreign language. Firstly, learning a language of other country provides an interesting way to understand their culture. By doing this, It opens the mind of non-native speaker to be respectful and accepting into the reasons of their unique traditions. Secondly, It paves way to create networks and meet new friends. Other people purposely study a specific language because they want to be accepted in a certain group.
In conclusion, although learning a new language may benefit those who are travelling or working abroad, In my opinion, it is not limited to that purpose as it also leads to cultural understanding and extending networks.
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- Some people believe that nowadays we have too many choices. To what extent do you agree or disagree. 61
- In many cities, many people are living in large apartment blocks. Does this accommodation have more advantages or disadvantages? 78
- Many people believe that social networking sites (such as Facebook) have had a huge negative impact on both individuals and society.To what extent do you agree? 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1545.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 307.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0325732899 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68667054206 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583061889251 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 486.9 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7701869167 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.0 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4666666667 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1333333333 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283602057305 0.244688304435 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0851251808356 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0670538410433 0.0667982634062 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16275866832 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555062135287 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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