As computers translate quickly and accurately, learning foreign languages is a waste of time. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In the last decades, computer aided translations have surged significantly in astounding ways. Since computers are rapid and precise in interpretations, a growing number of people believe that mastering overseas dialects becomes fruitless. I am completely against this idea. This essay will first discuss why studying non native languages proves extremely worthwhile and secondly, some pitfalls of machine translations despite being expeditious with relevant examples.

To begin with, firstly, improvement of overall memory is one of the major assets of learning exotic languages because it involve...

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Average: 9 (3 votes)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, while, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with

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 : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1830.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 302.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05960264901 5.12529762239 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.29558542517 2.80592935109 117% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.705298013245 0.561755894193 126% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.278194968 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.714285714 106.682146367 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5714285714 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.21428571429 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129263245344 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0379177410861 0.084324248473 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0323123872392 0.0667982634062 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0751338204177 0.151304729494 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0213826168731 0.056905535591 38% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 13.0946893788 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 24.78 50.2224549098 49% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.87 12.4159519038 144% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 11.21 8.58950901804 131% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 78.4519038076 159% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 10.7795591182 167% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 8.0 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 302 350
No. of Characters: 1761 1500
No. of Different Words: 213 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.169 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.831 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.13 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 125 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.441 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.286 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.528 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.029 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5