It is important to consider whether people need to study a foreign language. While some people believe that studying a different language is only for the purpose of working or travelling aboard, I would argue that learning a foreign language is also needed for other purposes.
To begin with, it is often said that foreign language is only important when people need to go overseas. In other words, learning a foreign language only when the person is planning to visit a foreign country or considering taking a job aboard, otherwise studying a new language is unnecessary. Due to the fact that the daily communication within a country is often its native language, a foreign language could be considered as worthless. For this reason, many people just have knowledge of their mother language.
However, as the world has become globalised, international businesses and migrant workers have arrived in most countries, foreign language knowledge has become valuable. Especially, as there is often an overwhelming number of applications for a position, therefore, having a knowledge of another language can put people one step ahead of others who do not and this also can become an advantage in getting a better job. Also, I strongly believe that learning a foreign language would bring numerous of benefits to people including knowledge development, the ability to communicate with foreign people or friends, or an advantage when applying for a position.
The notion that foreign language is purely for the purpose of working or traveling aboard could have been true a few decades ago when globalisation was still less common; however, this idea is now outdated. People should learn a foreign language in any circumstances as it is one of the keys to putting one ahead of the game.
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- The Graph below shows average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per person in the United Kindom, Sweden, Italy and Portugal between 1967 and 2007.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. 84
- Governments should spend money on railways rather than roads.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. 73
- Extreme sports such as sky diving and skiing are very dangerous and should be banned. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view? 11
- Extreme sports such as sky diving and skiing are very dangerous and should be banned. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view? 67
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, still, therefore, while, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 41.998997996 67% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1533.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 297.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16161616162 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90715345759 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.525252525253 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 494.1 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.9350696258 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.363636364 106.682146367 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => 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 : 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: 0.407695776675 0.244688304435 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.173686805773 0.084324248473 206% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0911078599385 0.0667982634062 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276436521946 0.151304729494 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0733718473157 0.056905535591 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 50.2224549098 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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