Living in a country where you have to speak a foreign language can cause serious social problems as well as practical problems To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement

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Living in a country where you have to speak a foreign language can cause serious social problems, as well as practical problems. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

In this increasingly integrated world, the number of people who settle in another country for work and study purposes is on the rise. Many people claim that having to use a foreign language in their everyday life is bringing some serious problems, both social and practical ones. This essay will outline several reasons why, despite such disadvantages, life in another country may be more of a wonderful experience.

To begin with, there is no doubt that people who move to live in a foreign country encounter many challenges. For the first few months or even years, they find themselves unaccustomed to the presence of a language that is not their mother tongue in all aspects of life. Such language barriers could result in difficulties in socializing, studying or working, and even in recreational activities like going shopping or visiting a museum. Consequently, many newcomers feel really stressed and isolated due to the lack of connection to the people and their culture here.

On the other hand, these problems could be easily overcome if people have enough effort to change their situation. The first factor contributing to this, definitely, is to learn how to speak a foreign language. Although many people argue that the process of language learning could be demanding and challenging, having the chance to immerse yourself in the language is likely to help you make rapid progress and familiarise yourself with it in no time. Once the initial stages have passed, people will find it really rewarding since they can now enjoy a whole new unique culture and enjoy the fascinating things which they have never experienced back in their homeland.

Furthermore, technological advances also play an important role in keeping those challenges minimal. With the help of modern applications, people can now communicate effectively no matter what languages they are using. Additionally, the increasing availability of information on the Internet enables them to learn more about culture shocks and adapt to a new environment with relative ease. Thanks to all those aforementioned inventions, people with little language proficiency could easily get along with others and get used to new circumstances.

To sum up, it is apparent that meeting several problems when living in a country where you have to speak another language is inevitable. However, such problems could be tackled via a lot of methods, and once you get rid of them, the wonderful experiences you get will be totally worthy.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2101.0 1615.20841683 130% => OK
No of words: 404.0 315.596192385 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2004950495 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88240740932 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559405940594 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 661.5 506.74238477 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.4323842549 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.588235294 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7647058824 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.52941176471 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.262709979703 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811283467319 0.084324248473 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0725882586039 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14600028505 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0700792576594 0.056905535591 123% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => 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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