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.
Throughout its history, people have learned foreign languages for different reasons; however, these days, it is believed that individuals learn one or several languages in addition to a native one in order to only travel abroad or work for a multinational company. In my opinion, it is a misconception to indicate only the two reasons since there are many purposes in learning foreign languages.
Nowadays, the number of students who either intended to or already study in overseas increases significantly every year. Thus, students many of whom are international ones have to be able to speak a language of a host country, in general English, in order to study at an university. Moreover, many researchers most of whose first language is not English or German must learn English to do research or participate in a scientific conference.
On the other hand, it is true that a substantial number of people learn foreign languages to travel abroad or to work for a foreign organisation since the world became more globalised than few years ago. Individuals take a foreign language course in order to be employed in a multinational organisation for better job opportunities. While people who want to visit overseas countries have to learn a local language of an intended country in order to reduce the burden of language obstacles. My brother, for instance, enjoyed his visit to Turkey in 2010 as he had learnt Turkish beforehand, while my friend also could have had an enjoyable trip to Germany; however, he had some problems with understanding German, thus he decided to learn foreign languages before visiting certain countries.
In conclusion, it is true that most people learn foreign languages in order to travel or to work; nonetheless, those are not only reasons for learning a foreign language since individuals have other reasons such as studying and doing research.
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...ges before visiting certain countries. In conclusion, it is true that most peop...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'thus', 'while', 'for instance', 'in addition', 'in conclusion', 'in general', 'such as', 'in my opinion', 'it is true', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.231454005935 0.247107183377 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.154302670623 0.155533422707 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.127596439169 0.0946595960268 135% => OK
Adverbs: 0.053412462908 0.0501214627716 107% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0356083086053 0.0437548338989 81% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127596439169 0.122226691241 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0237388724036 0.0403226058552 59% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.98326526086 2.80594681477 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0563798219585 0.0326793684256 173% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => More particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0712166172107 0.0861772015684 83% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00593471810089 0.021408717616 28% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0118694362018 0.011925033212 100% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1886.0 1933.35771543 98% => OK
No of words: 307.0 316.048096192 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.14332247557 6.12580529183 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.20517956788 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.384364820847 0.374742101984 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.309446254072 0.28420135186 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.234527687296 0.203846283523 115% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.127035830619 0.137316102897 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98326526086 2.80594681477 106% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 176.037074148 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517915309446 0.56093040696 92% => OK
Word variations: 52.6589481088 60.7387585426 87% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 16.0891783567 62% => OK
Sentence length: 30.7 20.7743622355 148% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.073621499 49.517814964 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 188.6 127.492653851 148% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.7 20.7743622355 148% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.7 0.814263465372 209% => Less Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 3.99599198397 150% => OK
Readability: 61.6446254072 49.1944974215 125% => OK
Elegance: 1.57317073171 1.69124875643 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.533452810247 0.332605444948 160% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.140960513165 0.102741220458 137% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.04419011086 0.0668466124924 66% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.667446710035 0.534860350844 125% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.149895872863 0.148594505496 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.260896010564 0.134430193775 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106646113895 0.0742795772207 144% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.340013208252 0.324371583561 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0623959641659 0.0638462369009 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.388982611486 0.228012699653 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0905226296805 0.058150111329 156% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.68436873747 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.41683366733 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 5.90881763527 85% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.5751503006 39% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 1.9629258517 204% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.4468937876 96% => OK
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9