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
acquisition of a second language has long been considered by many to be an important part of education, but some believe that it is unnecessary for the majority of people who do not intend to travel or work in other countries. While it is true that most people that study a language in school may never get the chance to use it, there are benefits to studying language beyond an increased capacity to communicate.
The largest argument against learning foreign languages is most common to citizens of english speaking countries and it concerns the relative usefulness of a second language as compared to studying something more immediately relevant to their lives. They believe, with some justification, that everyone else knows english anyway, making their studies pointless.
While it is true that english is the lingua franca of our time, the ability to communicate is only one of the benefits of language acquisition. there are many notable benefits for the brain when we learn new tongues, for example, it has been proven to reduce the chances of dementia in the elderly and keep our brains healthy for longer. learning a language also allows you to experience other cultures and access information in a way that is impossible to achieve with google translate.
Even though, especially for english speakers, it might seem to be unnecessary to learn a second language, the benefits of doing so are uncountable. it is impossible to understand foreign people and their cultures without learning their lexicon and in the modern world that seems to be a more important skill than ever before.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, if, may, second, so, while, for example, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1341.0 1615.20841683 83% => OK
No of words: 265.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06037735849 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78540671465 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.562264150943 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 428.4 506.74238477 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 16.0721442886 56% => 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: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 41.0115912552 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.0 106.682146367 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.4444444444 20.7667163134 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226602829074 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0887279968735 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392451967554 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130013586136 0.151304729494 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0127830211184 0.056905535591 22% => 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: 17.1 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 50.2224549098 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.66 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 9.78957915832 199% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 10.7795591182 186% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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