Some people say that the only reason for learning a foreign language is in order to 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 opinion.
A significant proportion of individuals in the society are of the opinion that the primary aim of learning a foreign dialect is for the purpose of travelling or working abroad, while others claim that there are other scenarios that might prompt one to learn a new language. However despite cogent the reasons from both schools of thought, I am of the belief that the most crucial stimulation for acquiring proficiency in a second tongue is to facilitate work and travel overseas.
To begin, proponents of a foreign language serving other valuable purpose apart from streamlining work and travel in an alien country base their stand on certain points. Individuals in the society learn a novel dialect for academic reasons. Scholars usually enroll into a linguistic class, not for purposes of communication but probably because the curriculum of the course study mandates them to do so. As an illustration, pupils in elementary school in my country Nigeria are often obligated to be tutored in French because the scheme compels student to do so. In addition, a competency in a new lingua franca would enable one understand scientific and religious text. Decades ago, scientific journals and texts were documented in Latin. For a potential scientist to understand such literatures, he has to have a basic knowledge of Latin. Also the Catholic denomination has a penchant for using Latin for its religious worship. As a result, priesthood mandates a Latin proficiency.
However, I would argue that the main aim of acquiring a new linguistic skill is for a job or livelihood when one travels to a strange land. Firstly, to be able to adapt to the social life and culture of an entirely alien environment, communication in the preceding dialect is a necessity. Foreigners usually make fast friends with visitors and tourists that could converse freely with them as language has a potential for uniting people. As an example to facilitate adaptation to life overseas, governments and travel agents obligates travellers to have a basic understanding of the the language. Bodies like IELTS conduct exams for migrants to a new nation. Secondly, employers of labour favour employees that have a good grasp of language in order to facilitate communication between staffs and clients. A customer patronising a shop or manufacturing company would grumble if he could not be adequately understood.
In conclusion, though certain groups in the society opine that a foreign language could serve other needs outside travelling or working overseas, I am of the opinion that adapting to employment or migrating is the main reason for learning a second language.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 41.998997996 138% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2222.0 1615.20841683 138% => OK
No of words: 429.0 315.596192385 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17948717949 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00859356402 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 176.041082164 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529137529138 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 706.5 506.74238477 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.97386319 49.4020404114 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.947368421 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5789473684 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.68421052632 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.01903807615 259% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193761068594 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0531794853024 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.068417552966 0.0667982634062 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152264348797 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0746771489506 0.056905535591 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 78.4519038076 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 9.78957915832 189% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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