Read the excerpt from Jackson’s blog. Learning to speak a new language is one of the best decisions I ever made! This summer, I traveled throughout Japan with my robotics team and was able to communicate with almost everyone we met. Next year, I’m planning to live in Japan as an exchange student. I think it will help me improve my Japanese reading and writing skills. I hope all my friends get inspired to learn a language, too! The purpose of Jackson’s blog is to advertise foreign language lessons. entertain with humorous anecdotes. persuade readers to learn a language. teach readers how to speak Japanese.

A text that aims at persuading the reader is a type of text that tries to convince readers about an idea or action usually by presenting an opinion or position and arguments to support it.

In the text presented, the main idea Jackson is supporting is "Learning to speak a new language is one of the best decisions I ever made" and this is supported with details such as "was able to communicate with almost everyone we met" or "I’m planning to live in Japan" that show the benefits of learning a language. This shows, Jackson main purpose is to persuade the readers rather than entertain them or advertise a language course and thus, the purpose of this text is to persuade readers to learn a language.