Some people say that the only reason for learning a foreign language is 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.
It is believed that people learn another language only to travel or work abroad. While I agree that the knowledge of foreign languages may improve one’s career prospects, knowing the local language is not necessary for tourists. In my opinion, however, people today study other languages mainly for academic purposes.
Although speaking the local language can help tourists immerse themselves in the local culture, travelling to another country does not always mean one needs to have the language skills. For one thing, it might be a short trip, so holidaymakers do not always take language courses, not seriously anyway. The main reason, however, why tourists do not go to great lengths to master the language is that they can always hire a tour guide to help them explore this exotic culture they are about to enjoy.
The economic disparity between the countries has meant that people from developing countries sometimes emigrate in search of a better life. When they do start afresh in a new country, these migrant workers need to have a certain level of language competence if they want to stand a chance. Without the necessary level of communication, they may find themselves struggling in manual labor. Thus, I agree work can be one of the reasons why people sometimes learn another language.
While there can be many reasons, studying abroad, to me, is the main reason why people learn languages. Obtaining internationally recognized degrees is now considered one of the main academic goals students pursue. To qualify for such degrees, international students need to pass language tests, and so obviously, this is one of the main reasons why they take language learning more seriously, than even those who are seeking employment abroad.
Although seeking better job opportunities is one of the main reasons why we learn different languages, language learning is much more serious among those with academic goals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...erious among those with academic goals.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for one thing, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 10.4138276553 19% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1637.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 312.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24679487179 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69138415173 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557692307692 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5492160768 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.928571429 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2857142857 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07142857143 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239061272892 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0909272909503 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712383437922 0.0667982634062 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141659218081 0.151304729494 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0541741521772 0.056905535591 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => 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: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => 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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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