How do language barriers and cultural differences challenge Akira’s Australian experience?
Language barriers and cultural differences have always been difficulties for the immigrants, especially international students. This is one of the main themes expressed through the novel “The Spare Room” written by Kathryn Lomer, published in 2004. It helps us improve our comprehension about the adventure as well as all the unprecedented challenges that Akira, the main protagonist, has encountered. The differences in language and culture are contributors to a myriad of problems in daily communication and in his real life as it causes him to directly experience racism, discrimination, embarrassment and confusion. The next paragraphs will consider why language barriers and cultural differences are such challenges to Akira’s Australia experience.
The differences in language lead him to suffer from many ridiculously embarrassing circumstances which are caused by his broken English. In “The Spare Room”, this can be proven as he carries the drinks carefully, put one down to the table and says: “There you go, love”. Another example for this is when he walks into the shop and talks to the cashiers, “Hello. How are you? Fine, the woman said together, still all smiles. What can we get for you? I would like six of those chicken tits please”. To use words correctly is one of the common problems for those who speak English as a second language such as Akira. In the first case, his inexperienced language induces two customers to look at each other surprisingly because “love” seems inappropriate to be used in that situation. It, therefore, gives rise to some misunderstanding between them and produces a state of confusion as Akira “hastily put the other drink down and scampered away”. The next case is where he fails to distinguish two words “tits” and “breasts” since “chicken tits” is not a proper usage of “chicken breasts”. This incident erupts everyone there into laughter and places him in an acute embarrassment as a result of tonnes of confusing synonyms and antonyms in English. From the examples above, language barriers are considered as the major complications that should be avoided from his adventure. Nevertheless, not only do language barriers affect Akira’s Australian experience, but cultural differences are also something that needs to be addressed.
A variety of trouble such as racism and uncertainty in Akira’s adventure comes from the cultural differences between Japan and Australia. As he says in the novel, “ It is simply the way this family has sorted out its role- just as in Tokyo it would never occur to my father to offer a hand to my mother, or for me to do that either”. Another trouble that Akira faces is racism when he comes home on the bus, “Eventually, as the voices became persistent, I stopped daydreaming and paid attention. Two girls’ voices. Giggling. Ah so! Ah so! Ah so! Arsehole”. In these examples, the readers are positioned to feel sympathetic and gain an understanding about what Akira is suffering from the Australian culture. The first case emphasizes so far the expectations in the role of men and women in Japan that men are expected to work outside the home while women are supposed to stick with household work and child. On the contrary, the role of men and women in Australia is based on the fact of gender equality. In other words, everyone has the same rights regardless of gender. For all the reasons, Akira seems to get confused as he spends time thinking about roles and the way his family lives. The next case is when he actually experiences racism and discrimination due to his different appearance. Two girls on the bus giggle and try to imitate the phonetic version of the swear word in English by saying “Ah so! Ah so! Ah so! Arsehole!”. Unfortunately, this is his first time suffering from being discriminated so he doesn’t know how to act, what to do or say and ends up turning his feeling in turmoil. These examples has shown that many difficulties he faces all come from the language barriers and cultural differences.
In conclusion, Akira has experienced a myriad of difficulties from the differences in language and culture in his challenging adventure. What he has been throughout time in Australia has helped him develop his life skills as well as discover all his hidden abilities to succeed in the future.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, nevertheless, second, so, still, therefore, well, while, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as, in other words, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 13.8261648746 203% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => OK
Preposition: 100.0 52.1666666667 192% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3742.0 1977.66487455 189% => OK
No of words: 718.0 407.700716846 176% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21169916435 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.17643912491 4.48103885553 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.296220461 2.67179642975 123% => OK
Unique words: 358.0 212.727598566 168% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49860724234 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 1179.9 618.680645161 191% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Interrogative: 4.0 0.994623655914 402% => OK
Article: 13.0 3.08781362007 421% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 35.0 20.6003584229 170% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6814531899 48.9658058833 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.914285714 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5142857143 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.45110844103 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 3.85842293907 363% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409811266162 0.236089414692 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101855126767 0.076458572812 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0973811987496 0.0737576698707 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.26844723681 0.150856017488 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0922787924105 0.0645574589148 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 11.7677419355 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 10.9000537634 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 180.0 86.8835125448 207% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.002688172 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.4 Out of 6.0
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