Is learning a foreign language good or bad

Language was developed tens of thousands of years ago as a way for humans to relay information and express emotions. We rely on it so much that we can forget it is there. Language is the most basic tool of our everyday lives and one of the most complex, something we use to make our grocery lists or write poetry. It is easy to take language for granted, even though once we learn a language, it becomes the key instrument through which we process and understand the world.

It's no surprise then that mastery of language is a valuable skill for any job. Learning more than one language is more beneficial and can advance your career by further enhancing your hard and soft skills. Not only does language acquisition help you perform better at your assigned tasks at work, but it also comes with intangible benefits that will make you a sought-after employee in your field. Or maybe for your dream job!

Companies today have an ever-expanding reach around the globe, and many have international offices or business partners. Not only do they need to find ways to appeal to foreign clients and customers, but they must find ways to engage an increasingly multicultural population in their home countries. With the recent surge in remote work, the chances of working with overseas colleagues grow every day. This trend gives candidates who know a foreign language a distinct advantage in the job market. And this goes beyond the language piece. Learning a new language increases cultural awareness, which allows you to build better overall business relationships.

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Average: 6.6 (2 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 268, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...d one of the most complex, something we use to make our grocery lists or write poet...
^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...process and understand the world. Its no surprise then that mastery of langua...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, may, so, then

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 15.1003584229 40% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 52.1666666667 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1310.0 1977.66487455 66% => OK
No of words: 265.0 407.700716846 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94339622642 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.48103885553 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7010644896 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 212.727598566 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.649056603774 0.524837075471 124% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 618.680645161 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0757819694 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.769230769 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3846153846 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.84615384615 5.45110844103 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.53405017921 66% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201501575537 0.236089414692 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695436069303 0.076458572812 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507449380994 0.0737576698707 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124641242017 0.150856017488 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0251986251417 0.0645574589148 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 86.8835125448 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
More content wanted.

Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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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.

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 268, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...d one of the most complex, something we use to make our grocery lists or write poet...
^^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...process and understand the world. Its no surprise then that mastery of langua...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, may, so, then

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 15.1003584229 40% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 52.1666666667 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1310.0 1977.66487455 66% => OK
No of words: 265.0 407.700716846 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94339622642 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.48103885553 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7010644896 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 212.727598566 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.649056603774 0.524837075471 124% => OK
syllable_count: 403.2 618.680645161 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => 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: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0757819694 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.769230769 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3846153846 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.84615384615 5.45110844103 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.53405017921 66% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201501575537 0.236089414692 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695436069303 0.076458572812 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507449380994 0.0737576698707 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124641242017 0.150856017488 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0251986251417 0.0645574589148 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 86.8835125448 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
More content wanted.

Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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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.