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 local language firstly in order to perceive both unusual traditions and customs. This essay agrees with this suggestion.
Let us start with the reason why they suggest learning the target language. First of all, it causes misunderstanding when explaining complicated cultural details. For instance, in Kazakhstan, tourists often get confused a little when a host family suggest them in Kazakh language eat a traditional meal, called “beshparmak”, which includes horse meat as an ingredient, but restricted in Europe. Another reason is that it hinders the pace of cultural exchange. When tourists poorly know the local language, it often takes them longer time to get insight into local life, but, with the intermediate, they could progress faster. Moreover, it may cause tourists to feel suspicion . Foreigners often get cheated by local people, because they are unaware of local cultures when an inhabitant is going to deceive them for money, so it is better for them to know the target language in order to avoid such situations.
However, other linguists 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 to people exchange information. Pervasive languages, such as English, can curb 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 see 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 explanation of any cultural aspects on their own.
In conclusion, even though some linguists 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 686, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, 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 : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1792.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53086419753 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05693507798 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 58.6188212521 49.4020404114 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.3157894737 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0526315789 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.26315789474 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => 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: 0.178992051595 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590570959161 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518287024172 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114618767829 0.151304729494 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384094764368 0.056905535591 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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