Some people think that it is better to travel as part of a tour group when they are visiting foreign country. Other people prefer to make their own travel plans so that they can independently. Which approach do you think is better and why?

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Some people think that it is better to travel as part of a tour group when they are visiting foreign country. Other people prefer to make their own travel plans so that they can independently. Which approach do you think is better and why?

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 323.0 444.711560045 73% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 79.0 116.580246914 68% => 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: 4.08860759494 3.81502700369 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 2.9813075013 3.28032121604 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79443495156 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 56.0 76.076318743 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.708860759494 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 91.8 141.574747475 65% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0567759996411 0.0738818816272 77% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 13.0 3.20202020202 406% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 6.07692307692 60.3232687746 10% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 4.41085267287 17.3634065801 25% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 3.05153846154 22.9064221017 13% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.27154588553 6.49597621602 35% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 31.1548821549 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.13513513514 4.0588447711 53% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.72677111837 3.18357895611 54% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.948648648649 1.46810986539 65% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.625430282857 1.01537252472 62% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.2 5.28593714927 79% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.168 0.187982170178 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.16154256405 0.154715141812 104% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 29.51 35.408047138 83% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.373544303797 0.306236595465 122% => OK
STD word duration: 0.226905645782 0.198589292138 114% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 6.3164983165 142% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.55 5.14435465769 147% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.77 2.80480359147 170% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 39.67 45.0716498316 88% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.881555555556 1.00159221848 88% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.630199142929 0.637764685501 99% => OK
Rate of speech: 1.99142929166 2.58495923209 77% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.41164608016 1.68816559523 84% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.89766180956 2.15290372801 88% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.251393037975 0.343871460585 73% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.