Learning English at school is often seen as more important than learning local languages. If these are not taught, many are at risk of dying out.
In your opinion, is it important for everyone to learn English? Should we try to ensure the survival of local languages and, if so, how?
Proficiency in English is seen as a key skill to excel in today's world. While English allows the global economy and culture to thrive, different heritages do have sentimental and historical value.
English connects the world since it is the most widely spoken; hence schools may not be wrong to emphasize on it. After all, schools are obligated to prepare students for the academic and professional world. Moreover, the majority of higher studies are in English in various countries, including my own: India. Most of the world's literature and communication (such as emails) is also predominantly conducted in English. This has benefits too - without knowing Spanish, I can read Pablo Neruda's poetry translated in a common language.
If that tells us one thing, it is that we can embrace diversity while having a more developed society. A part of that diversity is local literature that schools are not teaching and folk songs which students never interpret. Being proud of one's heritage is difficult if people don't know or appreciate their local languages, all this in turn has the fear of causing rootlessness.
Schools may have to focus on English, but regional languages can be spoken at home. My parents encouraged me to speak Hindi, which is why I can relate with people in Indian villages as well as characters of American sitcoms.
Ultimately, I think local languages help us find communities and pinpoint where we are in the larger timeline of our families, countries, and the world. Thus, I strongly believe that we should take pride in our heritage and languages and do our best to preserve them.
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- Learning English at school is often seen as more important than learning local languages. If these are not taught, many are at risk of dying out. In your opinion, is it important for everyone to learn English? Should we try to ensure the survival of local
- Learning English at school is often seen as more important than learning local languages. If these are not taught, many are at risk of dying out. In your opinion, is it important for everyone to learn English? Should we try to ensure the survival of local 78
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 324, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'worlds'' or 'world's'?
Suggestion: worlds'; world's
...s, including my own: India. Most of the worlds literature and communication such as em...
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Line 9, column 241, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...tudents never interpret. Being proud of ones heritage is difficult if people dont kn...
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Line 9, column 278, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...of ones heritage is difficult if people dont know or appreciate their local language...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, while, after all, i think, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => 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: 1356.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05970149254 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76621394341 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.634328358209 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 421.2 506.74238477 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.9739204405 49.4020404114 47% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.8571428571 106.682146367 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1428571429 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07142857143 7.06120827912 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154954829434 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0517226814664 0.084324248473 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0296432739276 0.0667982634062 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0785457017683 0.151304729494 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0109254615655 0.056905535591 19% => 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 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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