discuss the pros and cons of learning a foreign language
Nowadays, more and more people want to study a second language. While this trend will have a lot of benefits for your life in the future, there are still some downsides that we need to avoid.
On the one hand, knowing foreign languages will develop your thinkings. When learning a language, you not only know about the vocabulary or grammar but also the cultures, traditions of people using it. It also improves your communication skills, helps you to make more friends from all around the world. Moreover, some researches had showed that new -language-learning will increase your grey matter, intelligent, memory and so on. Besides, you can get more opportunities when being able to use more than two languages fluently. Many companies and employers now are attracted by a language degree, so you will have more job offers, business trip or travel assignments when having learnt foreign languages.
On the other hand, learning a second language has some potential problems. Firstly, you can easily be impressed by the modern of the new language and ignore your mother tounge. Sometimes, you need to use both languages to express your thinkings, but sometimes, you even forget your first language. Secondly, learning a new language costs a lot of time, money, and determination. You need to focus to decrease things that are paid for mastering languages.
In conclusion, there are many reasons for self-development, future careers to explain why we need to learn a second language, but the disadvantages regarding forgetting mother tongue or costing time, money also need to be taken into consideration.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, while, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => 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: 1348.0 1615.20841683 83% => OK
No of words: 261.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16475095785 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94151582981 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.041082164 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.593869731801 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 416.7 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4456187091 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.2857142857 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6428571429 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.21428571429 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161036629881 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0679956846479 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0598898665161 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.085966992708 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0679045652784 0.056905535591 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.0946893788 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.