What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a foreign country? Give illustrations and reasons to develop your opinion.
Living in a foreign country has its pros and cons. Yet, which can we consider to be a positive and a negative point about living abroad? As far as I am concerned, the biggest advantage of living in a foreign country is the opportunity to meet a lot of people from several cultures. On the other hand, a great disadvantage is being far from family and friends.
To begin with, geting to know people from different cultures is the biggest advantage of living abroad. When I was in college I had the opportunity to attent a mobility program in Spain. During that time, I met people from all over the world; from Mexico to Japan. I learned a lot about their traditions and beliefs, as well as their languages. That experience not only helped me with my communication skills, but it also improved my hability to bargain, once I learned how to meet people's expectations based on their cultural background. This definitely helped a lot in a job I got in a multinational trading company after I came back to my country.
On the other hand, being distant from our close relatives and friends is a negative point of living in a foreign country. For me was really tough at the begining of my staying in Spain. Everyday I thought about my parents, sisters and close friends. I missed my mom's food, playing soccer with my dad in the weekend and going out with my friends. Everything is even worse in the beginning because when you have just come to a town it is very difficult to be accepted in a community. Specially if you have a distinct cultural background. It was hard and it took me some time to make new friends. Therefore, missing the ones with whom I had a close relationship was the biggest disadvantage of living abroad.
In conclusion, while living abroad may sound exciting at a first glance, there are not only positive, but also negative points that should be carefully considered. The cultural bagage we bring back home must be balanced with our homesick while living far from home, for example. This, however, should not prevent us from living in a foreign country. The contrast points of a experience like that will certainly enrich our lives.
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Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective, and the comma is missing. Did you mean 'every day, I'?
Suggestion: Every day, I
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, really, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 382.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65445026178 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68805723695 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 212.727598566 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.510471204188 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.4052035151 48.9658058833 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.8181818182 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3636363636 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12098271221 0.236089414692 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0423933074832 0.076458572812 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611295500424 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0911660490933 0.150856017488 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0712393803454 0.0645574589148 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 11.7677419355 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.39 10.9000537634 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 86.8835125448 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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