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 views and give your own oppi

As the mordern world is becoming more connected, learning a foreign language has been very common in our lives. While some people argue that the only purpose of learning a foreign language is to travel or work in other countries, i tend to believe that there are more reasons and benefits besides that.

A good command of a foreign language is undoubtedly helpful to plan a trip or to apply for a job in a foreign country. Otherwise, it might be a nightmare. A good example of this would be my friend once traveling to japan, who knew no more japanese words than "hello" and "thanks". When he ordered a meal in a remote restaurant where nobody spoke English or Chinese, the chef served a meal with amount enough for 5 people because of bad communication.
 
A foreign language can also broaden our minds and expand our views. Unlike mandarin, english is a languange that emphasizes details and rules, in which the unique linguistic logic imposes impacts on the minds of the speakers. Learning English provides a chance to compare with our mother tongue.

All languages are fruitful in art producions, such as movies, songs and books. by learning the language, we could get a more native insight to these works. For example, after learning Japanese, i got better access to the original songs which were reproduced by Hongkong singers in 1980s and found that the lyrics were completely different from cantonese version. In addition, our country is now open to the world and foreign languages can be used when we establish relationships with foreigners.

To conclude, to travel or work in a foreign courtry has never been the only reason to learn a foreign language, instead, we could find more meanings and usages of foreign languages in life.
 

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Average: 8.9 (2 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, if, so, while, for example, in addition, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1481.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92026578073 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84573943138 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581395348837 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 455.4 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
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: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.614544699 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.785714286 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => 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: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.339202091219 0.244688304435 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109421097285 0.084324248473 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115314331451 0.0667982634062 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203826898602 0.151304729494 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121479018283 0.056905535591 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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