To learn a foreign language successfully you need to spend time in the country where the language is spoken. Do you agree or disagree?
Language - A way to communicate, convey and understand. In earlier times learning a foreign language could get tough due to unavailability of appropriate tools and methodology. To be honest, this statement stands true to its word even today. Even if there are proper tools & methods available, a person has to literally adopt a foreign language in all aspects i.e. reading, writing and most importantly speaking. Unfortunately, this is only restricted to the boundaries of a classroom. In order to learn a foreign language successfully one must spend ample time in the country where the language is spoken.
When a person visits the foreign country, the very phenomena that happens is that the person is completely surrounded by the foreign language. Road signs, manuals of operations, newspapers, announcements and day to day communications. It is like one if being fore fed a daily dosage of a lesson of foreign language every second. The brain also starts to accept and absorb the words, sentences and phrases that are commonly used. It keeps on registering in your memory and one is able to understand & communicate easily, efficiently and fluently.
It has been observed in the immigrant communities of any country, that, they are able to communicate in the foreign language much more easily that those people who go in for a formal language training course.
Moreover, a foreign language institute would teach its students the most neutral form of foreign language as far as speaking is concerned. The student would find it difficult to interact with the locals as no stress is given on the dialect of that language in which the locals communicate in their day to day lives. For example: Austria is a German speaking nation. The language stays the same across Austria but it is the dialect that differentiates an Austrian from Innsbruck (Tyrol – West Austria) and an Austrian from Vienna (East Austria). The dialect is Tyrol is more informal and heavy compared to the dialect in Vienna which is more formal and has lot more finesse or panache to it.
So, in my opinion a person must spend a decent amount of time in the country where the language is spoken to get all its flavors of different dialects.
Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
---|---|---|---|
2018-10-16 | lavande | 83 | view |
2015-08-23 | puneetsachdeva85 | 50 | view |
- Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages? 78
- You are working for a company. You need to take some time off work and want to ask your manager about this.Write a letter to your manager. In your letter Explain why you want to take time off work.Give details of the amount of time you needSuggest how you 90
- Few people devote time to hobbies nowadays. Say why you think this is the case and what effect this has on the individual and society in general. 84
- Some people prefer to live in a house, while others feel that there are more advantages to living in an apartment.Are there more advantages than disadvantages of living in a house compared with living in an apartment? 56
- Some say you should marry for love; others say that in an uncertain world its wiser to marry for money. Discuss both point of views and give your opinion. 84
It is like one if being fore fed a daily dosage
Description: can you re-write this sentence?
much more easily that those people
much more easily than those people
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 6.5 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 370 350
No. of Characters: 1789 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.386 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.835 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.756 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.187 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.389 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.31 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.482 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.053 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5