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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2016-11-07 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-05 | Alex665544 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 556.0 444.711560045 125% => OK
No of words: 134.0 116.580246914 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.14925373134 3.81502700369 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.40232815919 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.08944562628 1.8723322822 112% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 76.076318743 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.65671641791 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 179.1 141.574747475 127% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.117515278369 0.0738818816272 159% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 67.0 60.3232687746 111% => OK
STD paragraph length: 16.0 17.3634065801 92% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.09 22.9064221017 101% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.23 6.49597621602 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 16.0 31.1548821549 51% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 8.375 4.0588447711 206% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.903123749 3.18357895611 123% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.804375 1.46810986539 191% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.20593308661 1.01537252472 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 14.0 28.6644219978 49% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.63 5.28593714927 69% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.259285714286 0.187982170178 138% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.10990023305 0.154715141812 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.83 35.408047138 112% => OK
Average word duration: 0.29723880597 0.306236595465 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.162881661058 0.198589292138 82% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.28 5.14435465769 44% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.2 2.80480359147 43% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.18 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02622222222 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.303161541793 0.637764685501 48% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.90168904288 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.90558683413 1.68816559523 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20938990711 2.15290372801 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.495000813433 0.343871460585 144% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.