Some people say that the only reason for learning a foreign language is in order to travel 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.
The purposes of learning a foreign language in modern society has been open to debate recently. While some people think that only ones who need to travel or work in other countries need to know foreign languages, others believe there are more reasons for studying new languages.
On the one hand, there are compelling reasons why it is essential to learn the language that is common in our work or residence. Firstly, the ability to use other languages, especially those popular around, is definitely helpful for exchanging information. For instance, when working for a foreign company, knowing its language is obviously essential as it allows both understanding other people’s speeches or conversations and giving personal opinions. Not only does this assist in working quality but also in developing relationships at office. Secondly, knowing the language of the living country will obviously avoid deceit. To be specific, signing any documents or contracts that written in a strange language may run the risk of being swindled and exploited. Although technology nowadays can be used to translate into first language, in some cases, it is still difficult to clarify what has been interpreted.
On the other hand, I do believe that a foreign language brings about far more benefits that make it worth learning. The foremost reason is that “knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom”. The more languages become understood, the more information can be absorbed as a huge data resources of these languages are available. For example, in addition to reading books in our mother tongue, we are now able to use ones in other languages, which would contain a lot of facts we have not heard about. The second reason for my believe is that a new language will open to a new culture which enhances flexible viewpoints and social relationships. Studying a language is never learning just the patterns, it forces the learners to approach different beliefs, traditions, customs and lifestyles. Consequently, it not only enables the brain to be sharpened as coping with new ways of thinking, but it also offers many chances to build friendships with foreign people.
To conclude, while it is true that learning foreign languages is necessary to people who have to work and travel abroad, I would contend that there are more reasons for people to study a new language whether or not going overseas.
Comments
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Not "one's" but "ones", I mean "the books" mentioned previously. Anyway, thanks a lot for your evaluation
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in some cases, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => 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: 2018.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 393.0 315.596192385 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13486005089 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45244063426 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88800596318 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539440203562 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 630.9 506.74238477 125% => 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: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
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: 39.9368012851 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.705882353 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1176470588 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06120827912 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.339610020933 0.244688304435 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101315681167 0.084324248473 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727074900868 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237640733391 0.151304729494 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0417426626543 0.056905535591 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => 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: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => 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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