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.
It is argued that foreign language acquisition only serves travel and employment purposes. However, many people disagree with this viewpoint and say that there are multiple reasons why a foreign language should be learned. Personally, while I acknowledge the importance of foreign languages for tourism and work, I am in favor of the latter opinion.
On the one hand, it is worth considering that travelling and employment stood out as the primary stimulants for a person to learn a language other than his native tongue. In terms of travelling, a command of other languages would be useful for a tourist in several aspects. For instance, he would not have to pay a great deal to hire a tour guide as his language competency would enable him to explore the destination on his own. Furthermore, one’s opportunities of employment are enhanced should he be able to use another language for he can apply for jobs both domestically and internationally. Therefore, such significant are the impacts that some people may think they are the only purposes for learning foreign languages.
On the other hand, knowledge of foreign languages could benefit a person in numerous other ways namely education and entertainment. Firstly, one’s studying could be facilitated with the ability to speak other languages as it not only helps people gain knowledge from various sources but also increases their chances of going overseas to experience a different education. In addition, considering entertainment, knowing another language could be helpful as well. For example, it would be more pleasant if you can watch movies without bothering to look at the subtitles or in some cases when the subtitles are not available, your enjoyment of the movies would not be disrupted because you can understand the language spoken in the films. It is undeniable that these merits of language learning also contribute to one person’s improvement.
In conclusion, while I agree that it is travel and employment advantages that appeal people to study foreign languages, I believe other motivations are of equal importance for the aforementioned reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, well, while, as to, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.3376753507 204% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29618768328 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05991179174 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9147569818 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.0 106.682146367 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3571428571 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.2857142857 7.06120827912 188% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.331810279617 0.244688304435 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120327646656 0.084324248473 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719022453565 0.0667982634062 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208849964255 0.151304729494 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0835836413877 0.056905535591 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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