Some believe it is important to learn as many foreign languages as possible. Others believe that speaking one or two languages fluently is enough. Which do you think is preferable and why?

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Some believe it is important to learn as many foreign languages as possible. Others believe that speaking one or two languages fluently is enough. Which do you think is preferable and why?

Submitted by batool on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 16:38
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 472.0 444.711560045 106% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.03418803419 3.81502700369 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28309141122 1.8723322822 122% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 76.076318743 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.700854700855 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 148.5 141.574747475 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0914512733914 0.0738818816272 124% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.20202020202 250% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 14.625 60.3232687746 24% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.9471492416 17.3634065801 69% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.55 22.9064221017 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.40071016996 6.49597621602 68% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 31.1548821549 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.31818181818 4.0588447711 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.09525096113 3.18357895611 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.86954545455 1.46810986539 127% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.862809771896 1.01537252472 85% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 15.0 28.6644219978 52% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.15 5.28593714927 60% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.21 0.187982170178 112% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.108689159226 0.154715141812 70% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.27 35.408047138 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.31 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172428605317 0.198589292138 87% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.26 5.14435465769 83% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.56 2.80480359147 127% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.4 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.986666666667 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.337837837838 0.637764685501 53% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.63513513514 2.58495923209 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84684684685 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.26082161566 2.15290372801 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.524397965812 0.343871460585 152% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.