Some people think that a person can never understand the culture of a country unless they speak the language. Do you agree with this opinion?
Getting to know an unfamiliar culture can be unforgettable experience. However, some linguists suggest learning the foreign language in order to better perceive both unusual traditions and customs. This essay agrees with this suggestion.
Let us start with reasons why they suggest learning the target language. First of all, the ignorance of local language may cause misunderstanding when encountering complicated cultural details. For instance, in Kazakhstan, tourists from Europe often get confused when the host family suggests them in the Kazakh language to taste a traditional meal, called “beshparmak”, which includes horse meat as an ingredient, but restricted in their own country. Another reason is that it hinders the pace of cultural exchange. It often takes them longer time to get insight into local life, when tourists poorly know the local language. However, with the intermediate level, they could progress faster. Moreover, it may encourage tourists to feel suspicion. Without a solid knowledge of the local language, tourists are usually afraid of taking part in some festivals, because they are unsure of how to behave in unfamiliar situations.
However, some experienced tourists say that cultural exchange is possible in spite of being unable to speak the target language. They justify their opinion by the following arguments. First of all, widespread languages enable them to maintain cultural exchange. Pervasive languages, such as English, can decrease the misunderstanding between tourists and locals, when it comes to the indigenous culture. Secondly, other senses of perception also participate in comprehension. Learning local customs also happens when people both watch and hear indigenous sounds as well as artistic performances. Finally, the Internet helps to find missing information about the target culture. Presently, tourists can easily find the information about any cultural aspects on their own if they do not understand something.
In conclusion, even though some tourists assure that it is unnecessary to know the local language well to learn more about traditions, I think that tourists should learn some basic words and phrases.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 846, Rule ID: AFRAID_OF_HEIGHT[2]
Message: The noun should be probably in the plural form: 'parts'.
Suggestion: parts
..., tourists are usually afraid of taking part in some festivals, because they are uns...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, for instance, i think, in conclusion, such as, as well as, first of all, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1864.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 329.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.66565349544 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06403784212 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598784194529 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 567.0 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 55.2172753765 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.2 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.45 20.7667163134 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.35 7.06120827912 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219859634698 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663930971677 0.084324248473 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0586387101502 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131760189769 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454193922587 0.056905535591 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 50.2224549098 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.31 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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