It is said by many that people learn a new language only to travel or work in another country while others think that those are not the only purposes of learning foreign languages. This essay will look into both opinions and explain why I am in favor of the second view.
The fact that many people learn a new language to solely travel or to work abroad is undeniable. In some developed nations, foreigners are required to be on a certain level of fluency in the languages so that they are qualified enough to live and work there. Therefore, in order to have better job opportunities overseas, people invest their time and effort in studying foreign languages. Plus, travelling is also another reason for learning languages as people can understand the cultures of the countries that they visit and avoid being dependent on automatic translators as well as making linguistic misunderstandings.
However, I would argue that there are many more reasons for learning languages. One of these is for entertainment. For example, with the popularity of K-pop, many young adults and students start learning Korean so that they can understand and sing the songs of their idols. Another reason is for academic purposes. For instance, it is true that in addition to good academic results, students are required to have a good command of English to get accepted to high ranking universities. Moreover, in many countries, English is a compulsory so students have to study English as their second language.
In conclusion, I believe that people learn a foreign language for many different purposes, namely travelling and working abroad or for hobbies and education.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, look, moreover, second, so, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => 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: 1381.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0401459854 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8251404972 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 176.041082164 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.536496350365 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 433.8 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => 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: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2989722451 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.230769231 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0769230769 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3846153846 7.06120827912 161% => 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: 0.36889547451 0.244688304435 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130982910448 0.084324248473 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0976831690567 0.0667982634062 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249488230108 0.151304729494 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0883548936042 0.056905535591 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 78.4519038076 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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