Some people think that a person can never understand the culture of a country unless they speak the language.
Do you agree with opinion?
There is an opinion that people cannot be fully aware of the culture and traditions of a nation except in the case they are able to speak the language. I somehow agree with this point of view; however, I think that it is not the main factor.
First, language is a communication tool and it is extremely difficult to interact with a foreign culture having language barrier. Needless to say that the way as people speak was formed under the influence of a certain culture. For instance, northern ethnic groups have different cultural background, which is clearly reflected in their language. These folks have around fifty names for snow in contrast with south languages that have only one word. Thus, an individual has to know the language as well as locals for deep understanding of the nuances of somebody’s culture.
Nevertheless, knowledge of a culture implies not only ability to speak a foreign language, but also awareness of specific rituals such as the tea ceremony before an important negotiation in Japan. That is why, if a person was curious, he might have discovered a targeted culture through literature and history about the country, which was written or translated in his native language. For example, I was fond of India and I had interacted with a country’s culture through studying a traditional Indian dance and myths about it. In addition, I have been living in India nine months and I have learned a lot taking part in celebrations, visiting local houses and travelling around the country.
In conclusion, I partly agree that it is necessary to speak a foreign language if somebody wants to know the local culture. However, it does not play a main role in gaining of enlightenment about it. From my point of view, the desire to gain it is the key.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, nevertheless, so, thus, well, as for, as to, for example, for instance, i think, in addition, in conclusion, in contrast, in fact, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1481.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87171052632 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77740492169 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565789473684 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.008437078 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.785714286 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.9285714286 7.06120827912 183% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219591788064 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0714482955553 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0528134408738 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135234104603 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0625397351255 0.056905535591 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 78.4519038076 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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