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.
Learning a foreign language is very popular these days. While some believe that the reason for doing so is for traveling or working abroad only, I would argue that there are many other reasons to learn another language.
One plausible explanation as to why some believe learning another language is only for those who travel or work overseas is that, to these people, a native language is not of much help in their home country. Indeed, many do not have much opportunity to expose themselves to the native language, thereby not being able to experience basic communication, including interacting or working with foreigners. For example, on account of their working patterns, rural inhabitants tend to consider overseas travel as a luxury, instead, they could afford domestic travel, and they feel that it is enough. Therefore, they seem to be under the impression that the purpose of acquiring a new language is just for those who have the intention of traveling or working abroad.
Despite the above arguments, I am more inclined to believe that acquiring a foreign language serves many other purposes, especially for a successful career and lifelong education. To begin with, in this globalization era, people right in their home country can have the opportunity to work for many multinational corporations that have expanded their businesses to that country, as long as they are proficient in international languages like English or Chinese. Thus, if they want to lead a comfortable life with a well-paid salary, it is necessary to learn those languages in order to work for those international companies. Furthermore, language learners can have more access to useful materials and resources only available in foreign languages. For instance, by keeping updated worldwide information in foreign languages, such as reading newspapers in English, people are able to/could gain a better insight into current affairs. This example indicates that new language acquisition would do a lot for learners to equip themselves with a wide range of knowledge.
To sum up, some may say that learning another language is only for traveling or working overseas; however, my own view is that the importance of foreign language learning goes beyond those two reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, for example, for instance, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1902.0 1615.20841683 118% => OK
No of words: 362.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25414364641 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88221512139 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544198895028 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 609.3 506.74238477 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 50.3716366138 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.307692308 106.682146367 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8461538462 20.7667163134 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1538461538 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.395230845262 0.244688304435 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150088054499 0.084324248473 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104054353031 0.0667982634062 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.284933172865 0.151304729494 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.082185926415 0.056905535591 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.0946893788 131% => 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: 13.47 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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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.