There is no doubt that knowing a foreign language may be beneficial in a variety of situations. However, while some people believe that the only reason to learn it is to work or travel abroad, I would argue that there are more advantages which this knowledge might provide.
First of all, learning a language to travel or work in a foreign country is the most popular reason for such an activity. This is because nowadays people tend to travel a lot, and due to globalization, it becomes possible to find a better-paid job in a different country from one’s computer. With regards to the former, knowing a language allows more freedom to travel, as there is no need to keep a guide close to you all the time. As for the latter, without speaking at least one foreign language it is almost impossible to find a decent job abroad, no matter how good a specialist you are.
Nevertheless, in my opinion, there are additional positives in learning a language, apart from those mentioned above, such as broadening one’s horizons. When a person learns another language, they become exposed to a completely different culture. For example, when I was learning Spanish, I watched Spanish TV series and movies, which showed how Spaniards live and what they consider funny or important. Had I studied just for the purpose of travelling or working, I would not have known Spanish at all, as I have never been to Spain.
To conclude, although learning a language for travel and work is certainly one of the main causes to study, I would argue that broadening one’s horizons is an additional positive which should be considered.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, while, apart from, as for, at least, for example, no doubt, such as, first of all, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1358.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86738351254 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77319311794 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.551971326165 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 427.5 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 33.9233457729 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.454545455 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3636363636 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.6363636364 7.06120827912 179% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253842273319 0.244688304435 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0970614761038 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0729905685619 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157855898243 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0585884672674 0.056905535591 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 50.2224549098 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 78.4519038076 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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