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 these views and give your own opinion.
Almost any day of the week we can look at a newspaper and read articles discussing the reasons for learning foreign languages. There are several points of view on this matter. The first claims that it is essential for travelling around the world or for making a career abroad. An alternative point regards studying other languages as the wide range of different reasons.
On the one hand, it is obvious that in recent years there have been some significant changes in the standard of life. The trend working, studying and travelling overseas is becoming more and more popular. It does not matter whether you like it or not you have to recognize the fact that foreign languages play considerable role in the modern community. Moreover, nobody can deny that it is exceedingly challenging to replace the skills of communicating with something else totally.
However, this attitude may cause a vast amount of concerns among people who believe that learning the languages of various nations may be beneficial to us in order to improve our mental abilities. For example, scientists discovered that Chinese language has some features and learning it can help to optimize our memories. Nevertheless, in the last decades there have been some shifts in major languages of crucial importance is how we define the matter in question. It is often said that that we learn other languages in order to penetrate into culture or history of any nationality.
From my point of view, the former opinion makes sense definitely, as it follows from my own experience, as I learn English with aim to study in one of the western countries and to build a career there in the long run. In any way, an attitude to this issue always depends on a particular person’s character and a personal background.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'replacing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'challenge' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: replacing
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: that
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1483.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.926910299 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77686812207 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58803986711 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.0363203984 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.928571429 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06120827912 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => 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: 0.204285061579 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0607208500319 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507305937564 0.0667982634062 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110262344704 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0638108958962 0.056905535591 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => 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: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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