In order to learn a language well, we should also learn about the country as well as the cultures and lifestyles of the people who speak it.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Nowadays, learning a foreign language has become a global trend, but whether the culture learning should be involved in the curriculum of language remains a controversial issue. Personally, I completely agree with this opinion, which I will elaborate further in the following paragraphs.
It is universal acknowledged that language is the fundamental tool for people to communicate. Therefore, the ultimate purpose of learning a language is communication. But misunderstandings may occur when interacting with foreigners without knowing his/her cultures and lifestyles, which would even develop to conflicts and impair the harmonious between people from different backgrounds. For example, in Chinese, when people asked “have you ever ate a meal?” this is actually a way of greeting to others.
Secondly, the process of learning language is usually tedious, if people study language for a long period of time, their concentration and enthusiasm are likely to decrease, which would impair learning outcomes. By contrast, if they spend a moderate amount of time on learning cultures and lifestyles, they could find interests of learning a language and be more motivated learn now matter no matter what difficulties they are confronted with. From this perspective, learning cultures could facilitate efficient language learning.
Moreover, a considerable part of people study another language in order to study or work overseas, learning cultures and lifestyles are essential to them. Knowing the cultures and lifestyles could alleviate the negative influences of culture shock and help them to get used to their life abroad.
As discussed above, learning cultures and lifestyles are indispensable parts of learning a foreign language, which should be valued by all the language learners.
- Many countries use fossil fuels such as coal or oil as the main sources of energy. However, in some countries the use of alternative sources of energy is encouraged.Do you think this a positive or negative development? 56
- Some people think that all university students should study whatever they like. Others believe that they should only be allowed to study subjects that will be useful in the future, such as those related to science and technology.Discuss both these views a 67
- The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by a particular UK school in 1981,1991 and 2001.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features,and make comparisons where relevant. 73
- Today ,the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold.Do you agree or disagree? 78
- Most people accept that we now live in a globalized world but not everyone agrees that it is beneficial.To what extent is globalization a positive or negative development? 84
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: period
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... them to get used to their life abroad. As discussed above, learning cultures an...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1541.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 269.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.72862453532 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14826653984 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.041082164 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.576208178439 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4786903054 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.416666667 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4166666667 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More 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: 0.299856172887 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119567682945 0.084324248473 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0623187301097 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179617813209 0.151304729494 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0365797340306 0.056905535591 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 50.2224549098 64% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.25 12.4159519038 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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