When you learn a foreign language, all four skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) are equally important. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

✨ Do you want to improve your IELTS writing?
Some people get hold to the idea that to learn a new language, we should have a balanced knowledge of speaking and listening as well as writing and reading. I,
however
Linking Words
, believe that listening and speaking
skills
Use synonyms
have a more significant role since they are necessary for daily interactions, while we can use smart gadgets to perform other items for us. The main purpose of studying a new language is to get the ability to interact with those who are native to that. To achieve
this
Linking Words
goal, verbal communication
skills
Use synonyms
, which includes speaking and listening, are more important compared to
the
Correct article usage
apply
show examples
written ones.
For example
Linking Words
, in Canada, where I live, when business owners want to learn French to be able to expand their market in Montreal, they start to use french
vocabularies
Fix the agreement mistake
vocabulary
show examples
in conversations, which helps them to answer their francophone customer's questions while they almost never need to learn writing in that language.
This
Linking Words
shows the prominent role of the mentioned
skills
Use synonyms
in contrast
Linking Words
to written ones.
Moreover
Linking Words
, most written materials can be translated by using new gadgets which are available on smartphones, eliminating the need to learn reading in foreign languages.
For instance
Linking Words
, Google
translate
Change the verb form
translates
show examples
software, which is available on most
of
Change preposition
apply
show examples
Android
Add an article
the Android
show examples
phones, can translate texts
in
Change preposition
into
show examples
more than one hundred languages, providing the ability to comprehend all their written materials.
As a result
Linking Words
, it is almost unnecessary to spend time learning any new alphabets. in conclusion, verbal
skills
Use synonyms
such
Linking Words
as listening and speaking should be studied more extensively than written ones.
Submitted by pooyamehr on

Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

What to do next:
Look at other essays: