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.
In many societies these days, the number of people who learn foreign languages has skyrocketed over the last decade. Some people suggest that the only reason why we learn them is for working or travelling abroad, whereas the others believe that there are multiple causes that we learn those languages. In this essay, I will outline the evidence for supporting both views and give my honest opinion.
To a certain extent, the use of foreign languages is quite limited as the vast majority of general public tends to stay in their native countries. No doubt, people may use foreign languages once they have to communicate with foreigners, and this is rarely to happen (with the exception of going to other parts of the world). Research by the University of Oxford states that the amount of time that bilinguals use their second language is significantly lower than they use their mother tongue. By this, I mean the only opportunity of using foreign languages would be speaking to people from different nations, and this occasion would happen only when we travel abroad for visiting or employment. Hence, it is likely that we do not use languages at all if we do not go to other countries.
While some people may use foreign languages for travelling only, there could be a chance that one uses them for accessing news. Although the versions and languages of the news have increased in recent years, some publishers may write the news in a certain language, which we may not understand without the knowledge about the language. South China Post, always offers online newspapers, is a good example that demonstrate the cruciality of understanding Chinese as it is all written in Chinese only. However, this company based in the UK so British, who would like to read those news, need to be able to fully understand Chinese. As a result, it is necessary to learn this language so people could receive latest information from this online platform. Provided those foreign languages could be used in our daily basis, it is evitable that we learn foreign language not just for travelling.
From my perspective, I advocate the idea of learning languages for other purposes, not only for chatting with foreign friends. Obviously, it is beneficial for everyone obtaining standard levels of other languages. Surprisingly, some employers require their workers to be trilingual so that they could expand their own businesses internationally. Therefore, more and more people may learn languages in different countries for acquiring degrees in foreign languages with the intention of qualifying from getting some jobs.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 92, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...s quite limited as the vast majority of general public tends to stay in their native countries...
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Line 2, column 267, Rule ID: WITH_THE_EXCEPTION_OF[1]
Message: Use simply 'except' or 'except for'
Suggestion: except; except for
...oreigners, and this is rarely to happen with the exception of going to other parts of the world. Rese...
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Line 3, column 573, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this news' or 'those newses'?
Suggestion: this news; those newses
...e UK so British, who would like to read those news, need to be able to fully understand Ch...
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Line 3, column 698, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'receive the latest'.
Suggestion: receive the latest
... to learn this language so people could receive latest information from this online platform. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, whereas, while, i mean, no doubt, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 24.0651302605 204% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2174.0 1615.20841683 135% => OK
No of words: 429.0 315.596192385 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0675990676 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72259475679 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522144522145 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 676.8 506.74238477 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.2818020452 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.777777778 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.367124470505 0.244688304435 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122964580152 0.084324248473 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093974928423 0.0667982634062 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.256086721115 0.151304729494 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0849377910735 0.056905535591 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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