Some people say that the only reason for learning a foreign language is in order to travel to or 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 own opinion.
Language of a country is the aspect defining the intrinsic culture and the values of its people. Therefore, while some say that one should learn a foreign language just in order to travel or work there, there are others who disagree upon these two to be the sole reasons. Though I believe the latter to be a more reasonable view, however this essay shall try to explore both sides.
To commence with, the primary purpose for people to travel to various different countries is either leisure or business in most cases. Hence, it makes sense for them to study a foreign language only for the reasons that serve their purpose well. They do not intend to settle down in a region hence they are not bound to interact with the locals there for social bonding. Such people require a foreign language just to bridge the communication gap between them and the locals, so that they can carry out their tasks smoothly.
On the other hand, for those looking forward to be part of a foreign community, language is not only a means of conversing with the people but also a method of establishment within a society. People of a region are more likely to trust and get along with someone easily who can understand their local parlance well. Hence, these people find an additional reason to learn a language besides only work and travel.
Conclusively, people may or may not use a foreign language in a variety of situations, nevertheless the reasons for learning a language are not only limited to travel or work.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, hence, however, if, look, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, well, while, in most cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1243.0 1615.20841683 77% => OK
No of words: 263.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72623574144 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48432463676 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 176.041082164 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555133079848 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 396.9 506.74238477 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.7091638865 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.0 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9090909091 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3636363636 7.06120827912 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.437047146213 0.244688304435 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153559810338 0.084324248473 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113543204449 0.0667982634062 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268830229206 0.151304729494 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465511079068 0.056905535591 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 78.4519038076 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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