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?
Nowadays, the technological achievements allow people to travel all over the world and reach almost every place on the Earth within twenty four hours. As a consequence, people are not constrained by borders of their native countries, which results in high migration rates for the past few centuries.
Every individual, settled in a new country, inevitable stumbles across linguistic barriers, even if he has been practicing foreign language prior to immigration. Therefore, I agree, that, to some extent, every expatriate faces problems with adaptation to a new linguistic environment.
The first problem an individual can face in a foreign county is a difficulty to socialize. In fact, the local population, regardless of their hospitability, will always frown to a stranger, who barely speaks their own language. Lacking fluency can also result in misunderstandings and misinterpretations. Even if an expatriate or tourists can speak the language of the country he visits, he might find it hard to adapt the local dialect, thus, freely communicate to inhabitants. Consequently, he might find it challenging to attend social events, banter with his local friends and thus, to establish strong social ties.
Another issue that can arise from expatriate's lack of fluency in local language is the inability to communicate his own needs. For instance, visiting to the doctor might be challenging and prone to misunderstandings. In comparison with this exaggerated example, failure to follow local news or asking for directions sounds far less intimidating. Therefore, with the limited vocabulary and fluency i local language one cannot avoid some practical problems.
Lacking the foreign language skills, from the one hand, might appear quite discouraging for a newly-arrived tourist or expatriate. However, from the other hand, living in a foreign country is a great experience to practice language and get in touch with local traditions and customs. In a foreign language speaking environment it is easier for a foreigner to acquire new language, practice speaking skills and eventually become fluent. Thus, while I admit that the lack of language skills can potentially cause serious social and practical issues, the individual still will contribute from this experience.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 133, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-four
... almost every place on the Earth within twenty four hours. As a consequence, people are not...
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Line 5, column 523, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'attending'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'challenge' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: attending
...sequently, he might find it challenging to attend social events, banter with his local fr...
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Line 7, column 221, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: comparison,
...ging and prone to misunderstandings. In comparison with this exaggerated example, failure ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, so, still, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1930.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 350.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.51428571429 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20506741627 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.4591864485 49.4020404114 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 113.529411765 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5882352941 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94117647059 7.06120827912 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.226533584002 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0696354739695 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548707058287 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109754874434 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0755136636584 0.056905535591 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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