Few languages are increasingly spoken in different countries, while the usage of others is rapidly declining. Is this a positive or a negative development?
A small number of languages have gained massive popularity in the world, namely Chinese, English and Spanish while many others are dying. I believe this trend was both negative and positive impacts.
Regarding positive effects, as fewer languages are spoken in more countries, international communication is eased, which helped boost multilateral trade and cultural exchange. Time for translation and interpretation activities is reduced and misinterpretations can be avoided. Furthermore, by acquiring languages which are commonly used in business, science and technology, researchers, academics and entrepreneurs from less developed countries can accelerate the process of learning from more developed countries. For example, Singapore and India achieved such incredible growth partly by making English their official language.
Despite the benefits, this trend has potential drawbacks. It took a country thousands of years to develop its own language, hence it is sad to see this integral part of a civilisation disappear. If a Vietnamese person in the future has to resort to translation to understand literacy classics written in their own language, it would be a worst/pessimistic scenario as they fail their own mother tongue. More importantly, cultural diversity will be lost together with the disappearance of minority languages. Folk songs, for instance, can hardly survive if future generations are no longer able to read the lyrics and understand their meanings.
In conclusion, though I believe the trend is inevitable in the era of globalisation, every country needs to have measures in place to protect their cultural identity of which languages is an integral part.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: A few; Some
A small number of languages have gained massive popularit...
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Line 9, column 77, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'thousand'?
Suggestion: thousand
... potential drawbacks. It took a country thousands of years to develop its own language, h...
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Line 9, column 337, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[1]
Message: Use 'the' with the superlative.
Suggestion: the
...tten in their own language, it would be a worst/pessimistic scenario as they fail...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, hence, if, regarding, so, while, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1445.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 252.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.73412698413 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98428260373 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26861540822 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.642857142857 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.9582543593 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.416666667 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163213592369 0.244688304435 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562942369638 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.058137941105 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0982686354661 0.151304729494 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0666750314321 0.056905535591 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.95 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.94 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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More content wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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