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?

One of the significant functions of language is to communicate with others and express oneself. Many people believe that lacking knowledge of the local language will cause serious issues in one's life when living abroad. In my opinion, I completely agree with this view since there is no way for people to adapt to a new environment without language ability.

The language barrier negatively impacts people's life. Being in a strange place, newcomers have the priority to integrate into the new neighbourhood and community. Language plays a vital role in knowing people, making friends and setting up one's social circles. Taking Canada as an example, as a traditional immigration country, the Canadian government provides each newly landed individual with free English or French classes as an essential part of their settlement plan. Statistics also indicate that the most serious issue that newcomers encounter is the language problem. An unneglectable number of new immigrants feel frustrating and self-doubted because of low language proficiency, which, as a result, leads to more conflicts in their family life and socialization. 50% of new immigrant families fell apart and got divorced in a few years after landing. The primary cause of this phenomenon is their emotional and psychological issues caused by language barriers. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that language causes severe social problems.

Moreover, not knowing the language from the place where you are living also results in various practical difficulties. From ordering dishes in restaurants to competing for a position in the job market, language skills are mandatory and directly affect people's life quality. For instance, a significant number of seniors who move to Canada under the family sponsorship stream have to rely on their children or grandchildren for everyday activities such as going to groceries, banking or doctors. They became independent merely because they are living in Canada but speaking no English or French. Another example to illustrate the importance of language is in the job seeking. With strong professional competences but weak language capabilities, new immigrants usually are less competitive than other candidates who have no language problems. Consequently, newcomers frequently receive humble wages and do jobs not in their professional field at all.

To sum up, lacking the ability of languages of where people are living in always leads to socially and practically unneglectable issues. I firmly believe that eliminating the language barrier is a must in peoples' integration and adaptation into a new country.

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 191, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...l language will cause serious issues in ones life when living abroad. In my opinion,...
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Line 5, column 760, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[4]
Message: The adverb 'usually' is usually put after the verb 'are'.
Suggestion: are usually
...k language capabilities, new immigrants usually are less competitive than other candidates ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, if, moreover, so, therefore, for instance, such as, as a result, in my opinion, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2231.0 1615.20841683 138% => OK
No of words: 408.0 315.596192385 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4681372549 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02622043816 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 176.041082164 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578431372549 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 710.1 506.74238477 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5853817551 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.238095238 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4285714286 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.229951209578 0.244688304435 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0685021144221 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0547819922736 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13905178067 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0183833170494 0.056905535591 32% => 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: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 78.4519038076 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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