Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should begin learning a foreign language as soon as they start school. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

In today's cosmopolitan and progressive world, learning to speak a foreign language is essential. Whether we want to study an original textbook or travel to another country, we need to learn a new language. Therefore, some people assert that children should start learning a foreign language as soon as possible. Nevertheless, in my view this idea is fallacious. I believe, learning a new language at an early age would waste both students and their teacher's time. In the ensuing paragraphs, I will elaborate more on my reasons for holding this opinion.

First and foremost, choosing a foreign language is a difficult task for children at an early age. Children usually do not have a correct and comprehensive understanding of the world around them. Consequently, they are not informed enough to decide to learn which foreign language is more beneficial for them. For example, in my middle school, all of the students were required to take a foreign language course. Not knowing which language is more suitable for me, I decided to study french randomly. However, when I graduated and contemplated my future plans, I realized an Asian language, such as Japanese or Chinese, would have been more functional for me. I failed to make an intelligent decision at that young age. Therefore, I do not concur that a primary school student will be able to make a correct decision either. I learned from this experience that one must not start learning a new language without any insight into one's future decision randomly.

Another point to mention is that students might not be able to develop a comprehensive understanding of the language. To be more specific, teachers are usually the students of this language, not the native speakers. In like manner, other classmates have not experienced speaking this language before. Consequently, the process of learning for the students is slow and inefficient as well as erroneous. The example of my coworker can cogently illustrate my point. He decided to study Korean after graduating from university, and instead of attending language classes, he directly applied for jobs in Korea and succeded to find one. After two years, when he returned to America, I met him and realized he could speak Korean fluently. He would not have been able to learn Korean so well if he had not travelled and lived there, surrounding himself with native Korean speakers. The other students who have learned a new language in a school do not have a comparable skill in speaking. As can be seen, learning a second language in school is proved not to be efficacious; travelling abroad and learning the language in the native country is far better.

In conclusion, although speaking a second language is indisputably important for individuals, starting learning the language as soon as possible is not essential. Doing so wastes students' time unnecessarily as neither do they possess adequate decision-making abilities nor will they learn it effectively enough in their own home country. Students should all plan well before starting learning a new language as this skill demands huge amounts of time and effort.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: all the
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...emands huge amounts of time and effort.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, well, for example, in conclusion, such as, as well as, in my view

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2623.0 1977.66487455 133% => OK
No of words: 514.0 407.700716846 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10311284047 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91448844749 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472762645914 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 819.9 618.680645161 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.1486304339 48.9658058833 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.6785714286 100.406767564 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3571428571 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85714285714 5.45110844103 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220098938794 0.236089414692 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0662768138073 0.076458572812 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602867939384 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157575674227 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0353129873193 0.0645574589148 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 11.7677419355 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 86.8835125448 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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