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 o

Essay topics:

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.

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Learning a foreign language has many advantages including knowledge on diverse cultures, better job prospects, faster cognitive development, effective communication skills and so on. While some people believe that the only reason we should learn a foreign language is to visit or work in a foreign country, many others opine that the benefits of learning a different language are not restricted to the job and travel prospects only.

On one hand, it is quite natural that people want to learn a foreign language only to become able to communicate with those people who speak that language. Thus, many learn foreign languages like English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic either to visit/migrate or to find jobs in countries where people use these languages. From this regards, it seems quite logical that visiting a country or working there is the main reason why people learn a second language. In my country, most of the people learn English and Spanish while almost nobody learn Russian. Migration and job prospects are the reasons that has established this trend, I believe.

On the other hand, research indicates that cognitive development happens faster among children who learn a second language than those who do not. Furthermore, learning a second language is mandatory in an academic syllabus which helps us understanding diverse cultural and traditional aspects. People who know more languages are capable of reading more books, and understanding the lifestyle of different nationalities. Again, learning a foreign language helps us make new friends. Thus it is evident that learning a foreign language has many other benefits as well.

In conclusion, we cannot deny the fact that people primarily learn a foreign language to travel to or work in a developed country. But it is quite evident that there are far many advantages of learning a foreign language than to work or migrate to a country.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
... where people use these languages. From this regards, it seems quite logical that vi...
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Line 3, column 555, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'nobody' must be used with a third-person verb: 'learns'.
Suggestion: learns
...English and Spanish while almost nobody learn Russian. Migration and job prospects ar...
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Line 5, column 239, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to understand' or 'understand'.
Suggestion: to understand; understand
... in an academic syllabus which helps us understanding diverse cultural and traditional aspect...
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Line 5, column 483, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ign language helps us make new friends. Thus it is evident that learning a foreign l...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, second, so, thus, well, while, in conclusion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 7.30460921844 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 41.998997996 71% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1618.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 310.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21935483871 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79046988237 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506451612903 0.561755894193 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 505.8 506.74238477 100% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => 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: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3139243839 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.571428571 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1428571429 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.07142857143 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => 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: 0.416932185555 0.244688304435 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.165249519125 0.084324248473 196% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.098836285042 0.0667982634062 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.286938402917 0.151304729494 190% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0637925676601 0.056905535591 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 78.4519038076 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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