25. Some people think that it is better to travel as part of a tour group when theyare visiting foreign country. Other people prefer to make their own travel plans sothat they can independently. Which approach do you think is better and why?
There are mixed views whether to travel alone or with a tour group when visiting abroad and I believe that the best way is to travel alone because of two reasons. First, by traveling alone, you have all the time for yourself to see what you want, whereas with a group, they have a schedule to follow and sometimes you might miss out certain places. Second, in some countries, traveling with a group is the easiest way to identify yourself as a tourist and it makes everyone in the group a likely target for thefts and pick-pocketing.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 369.0 444.711560045 83% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 88.0 116.580246914 75% => 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: 4.19318181818 3.81502700369 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.06281431361 3.28032121604 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.88810844826 1.8723322822 101% => OK
Unique words: 65.0 76.076318743 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.738636363636 0.655143326166 113% => OK
Syllable count: 118.8 141.574747475 84% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0894462427399 0.0738818816272 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 44.0 60.3232687746 73% => OK
STD paragraph length: 13.0 17.3634065801 75% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.795 22.9064221017 65% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.615 6.49597621602 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 15.0 31.1548821549 48% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.86666666667 4.0588447711 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.28744938422 3.18357895611 135% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.84466666667 1.46810986539 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.271449916 1.01537252472 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 28.6644219978 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.4 5.28593714927 45% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.141176470588 0.187982170178 75% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.131412343987 0.154715141812 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 25.1 35.408047138 71% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.285227272727 0.306236595465 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16983934436 0.198589292138 86% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 6.3164983165 32% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.83 5.14435465769 36% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.01 2.80480359147 36% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 29.59 45.0716498316 66% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.657555555556 1.00159221848 66% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.574518418385 0.637764685501 90% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.97397769517 2.58495923209 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.19668807029 1.68816559523 130% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.58964143426 2.15290372801 120% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.432313340909 0.343871460585 126% => OK
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.