However, there are other ways to learn about another culture.
What is your opinion?
In my opinion, it is better to watch movies to learn about a culture, because of these reasons:
First, watching movies takes less time than reading a book or finding people from a specific culture online. For instance, I watched a documentary about Torkmans, who live in north east of Iran and learned a lot about them in just 2 hours. To get that much information, I had to read a book for a day or two, or spend days talking to Torkman people, online.
Second, watching movies can be more informative than books or people. Because for example learning about people’s dialects from a book can be frustrating, but movies can show them easily. Also some people may not be enough informative about their own culture.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-05 | Alex665544 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-11-08 | EugeneDubinchuk | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-05 | Alex665544 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-11-06 | mgrajapt | 10.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-27 | mgrajapt | 40.00 | Check this speaking |
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 431.0 444.711560045 97% => OK
No of words: 110.0 116.580246914 94% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.91818181818 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.23853184046 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95927546062 1.8723322822 105% => OK
Unique words: 70.0 76.076318743 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.636363636364 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 133.2 141.574747475 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0481840285763 0.0738818816272 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 110.0 60.3232687746 182% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.75 22.9064221017 200% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 31.1548821549 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.0 4.0588447711 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.76587548677 3.18357895611 118% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.96863636364 1.46810986539 134% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.59336492269 1.01537252472 157% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 28.6644219978 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.68 5.28593714927 89% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.150967741935 0.187982170178 80% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148440383139 0.154715141812 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.29 35.408047138 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.348090909091 0.306236595465 114% => OK
STD word duration: 0.231251517752 0.198589292138 116% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 14.0 6.3164983165 222% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.29 5.14435465769 219% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.36 2.80480359147 48% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.75 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01666666667 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.677595628415 0.637764685501 106% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.4043715847 2.58495923209 93% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53005464481 1.68816559523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.8281535649 2.15290372801 85% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.255235590909 0.343871460585 74% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.