The best way to learn foreign language is to watch a movie and TV show Do you agree or not

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The best way to learn foreign language is to watch a movie and TV show. Do you agree or not?

Living in the era of globalization, learning and speaking a foreign language has became increasingly demanding. Therefore, many people struggle to learn a foreign language by attending classes at school or receiving tutoring. Meanwhile, some people think the best method to learn language is watching foreign TV shows and movies. However, I strongly disagree with this opinion since the contents of the video will distract you from learning. Also, when watching a video on a foreign language, you are most likely to focus on the subtitles, rather than the pronunciation and sentence structure of the language.

To begin with, when attempting to learn foreign language by movies and dramas, the content of the video is very likely to distract you from learning. For example, when watching an action movie, which are you more likely to focus on? The language or the visual components? Definitely the visual components. Therefore, attempting to learn language by watching videos are likely to end by enjoying the movie, not delving into the language used. As and an example, when I first tried to learn English, I thought that watching Hollywood movies in English would be a great idea since I could learn colloquial expression and correct accents while having fun. However, it turned out I only had fun watching the movie but was definitely not learning anything from it. I was not concentrating on listening to the confusing quotes but rather enjoying the fun action scenes. Since then, I believe that this method is a bad idea since it distracts you.

In addition, subtitles in foreign movies will distract you. Listening to the language and identify the word and meaning is and essential skill. However, many people who decide to learn another language through foreign movies makes a mistake and end up relying on the subtitles to understand the language. However, there are no subtitles in real life, and doing so is a great mistake you could make in learning. Also, there are cases that those subtitles are not accurate. For people learning language by matching the sound, the vocal language with the subtitles translate to their own language, these subtitles will mislead them, disturbing their learning. For example, my Australian friend once attempted to learn Korean by watching Korean movies after learning the basics. However, when I decided to help him, I discovered that he was learning from a totally wrong subtitles. He was even confusing the Korean words of "Thursday" and "Friday".

In conclusion, I think the strategy of practicing and getting familiar with a foreign language is not a good idea since you may get distracted watching the movie neglecting it's original purpose. Also, watching with subtitle is not a good idea since not only it will stagnate your learning as you depend on it, but also could mislead you if it is inaccurate.

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Average: 7.8 (3 votes)
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Independent TOEFL Writing

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 82, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'become'.
Suggestion: become
...ing and speaking a foreign language has became increasingly demanding. Therefore, many...
^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, while, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2413.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 472.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11228813559 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84092316076 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453389830508 0.524837075471 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 734.4 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7251965551 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.52 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.88 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08 5.45110844103 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.85842293907 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.390248452076 0.236089414692 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112654272191 0.076458572812 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0853291512697 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253748422774 0.150856017488 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0536995106114 0.0645574589148 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 86.8835125448 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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