Some people think living in a country for a period of time is needed to learn the language and culture To what extent do you agree or disagree

Essay topics:

Some people think living in a country for a period of time is needed to learn the language and culture.

To what extent do you agree or disagree.

It is believed by some that it is necessary to reside in a nation for a length of time to master their language and culture. Although, I share similar view, however, it is also possible to become acquainted with a foreign language and culture without necessarily living in the country.

Firstly, learning a second language is often a difficult and complex task for everyone, especially adults. Language acquisition involves mastering how they are spoken and writing to convey the right meaning. In other words, it requires one to become familiar with the word-formation, word order and syntax which is not always easy to learn on ones own, but with constant interaction with native speakers it makes it faster for people to learn in a specified time frame. For instance, when I relocated to Germany, speaking as well as writing German was difficult at first, but with continuous communication with the nationals, I was perfect in it in 2 years time. Presently, I can communicate with German, also participate in their tradition.

However, a foreign language and custom can also be learnt without living in the country. There are a number of language schools with professional tutors where people have successfully learnt a second language. These schools are in almost every country which enables anyone seeking to learn another language of choice to enroll and learn as opposed to living with the nationals. To give a clear example, my wife was able to learn French language and culture in Nigeria within eighteen months by successfully completing a French language course, now it is almost impossible to distinguish her from French nationals. Furthermore, internet has also made it easy for people to learn culture of a certain nation by surfing through websites such as Google and Wikipedia.

To conclude, due to complexity of any language and its culture, it is always easy to learn one by residing with the native speakers in their country, but people can also be taught through language schools and internet anywhere in the world.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (6 votes)

Comments

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, second, so, well, for instance, such as, as well as, in other words

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 337.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07418397626 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79286976281 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519287833828 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.588021071 49.4020404114 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.538461538 106.682146367 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9230769231 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23076923077 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => 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: 0.21747314897 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0859356398447 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0495830552651 0.0667982634062 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145551455541 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0265628534343 0.056905535591 47% => 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: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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