As computers translate quickly and accurately, learning foreign languages is a waste of time. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is argued that learning foreign languages is unnecessary due to the availability of translation technology that is far more efficient. I’m in complete agreement with the argument as mastery of a language is not really needed to interact with foreigners and the time spent learning other languages can be put to better productive uses.
Tourists don’t need an extensive range of vocabulary when communicating with locals in the country they’re visiting and just need standard language. Translation devices are more than necessary to meet the needs of this group of people. During a leisure trip to Shanghai in 2018, I was able to rely entirely on Google translator to communicate with the locals. Equipped with technology, I was able to have very fruitful exchanges with the locals and learned a lot about the culture in Shanghai and its neighbouring attractions.
With the advances in language based technology, time and effort saved from not learning a new language can be put to more productive uses. Students and professionals can invest their time in honing their skills to increase their market value in today’s competitive world. International organizations don’t need to add translators to their workforce in global markets. For instance, LG relies entirely on translation software to print the instruction manuals for their products in different languages and don’t hire human translators anymore.
To conclude, I concur that advances in language translation technology has made learning languages redundant. It enables people to adequately converse with natives of other countries and instead of investing time acquiring language skills, they can explore other ways to improve their competitive edge.
- News stories on TV and in a newspaper are often accompanied by pictures Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words What is your opinion about this 73
- You have just spent a week with a friend on holiday When you got home you realized you had left your wallet there Write a letter to your friend In your letter Thank your friend for the holiday Explain that you left your wallet in their house Give them ins 61
- As computers translate quickly and accurately learning foreign languages is a waste of time To what extent do you agree or disagree 67
- Some people believe that economic growth of any country reduces poverty and hunger while other think that it causes damage to the environment Discuss both the views and give your opinion 73
- Some employers want to be able to contact their staff at all times even on holidays Does this development have more advantages than disadvantages 84
Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, really, so, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1463.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 267.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47940074906 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01933061494 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.576779026217 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.7119095797 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.916666667 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.25 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.33333333333 7.06120827912 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.185646754904 0.244688304435 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0803825418406 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0608640517513 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131862483737 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0603350814075 0.056905535591 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => 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: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.