Some people think that it is better to travel as part of a tour group when they are visiting foreign country. Other people prefer to make their own travel plans so that they can independently. Which approach do you think is better and why?
There are advantages and disadvantages to traveling alone or with a tour group when visiting foreign countries and it really depends on which country your visiting, because in some countries like Egypt or Peru you're better off with a group than going alone due to many crimes like pick-pocketing, robberies, thefts that take place there. In my opinion, it is better to travel alone because of two reasons. First, without the tour group, you will have complete control of what to see and where to visit. In most cases, group travelling will miss out certain things and the experience won't be worthwhile. Secondly, by travelling as a group you're more likely to get robbed because travel groups are easily recognized as tourists by their clothing and the camera hanging around the neck. For these reasons, I believe that traveling independently is better.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-04-07 | frozenstein | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2022-01-26 | toefltesttaker123 | Check this speaking | |
| 2020-06-22 | htshah | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 628.0 444.711560045 141% => OK
No of words: 151.0 116.580246914 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.15894039735 3.81502700369 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.50545371207 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04613256655 1.8723322822 109% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 76.076318743 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.649006622517 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 210.6 141.574747475 149% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0462146535497 0.0738818816272 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 151.0 60.3232687746 250% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 56.48 22.9064221017 247% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 31.1548821549 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.44117647059 4.0588447711 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.54127906828 3.18357895611 111% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.58 1.46810986539 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.1188150244 1.01537252472 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 28.6644219978 140% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.56 5.28593714927 143% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.189 0.187982170178 101% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.185981181844 0.154715141812 120% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.12 35.408047138 130% => OK
Average word duration: 0.305430463576 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183749523942 0.198589292138 93% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.52 5.14435465769 146% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.86 2.80480359147 31% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.48 45.0716498316 125% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.25511111111 1.00159221848 125% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.70821529745 0.637764685501 111% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.67351274788 2.58495923209 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.73512747875 1.68816559523 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.12489158716 2.15290372801 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.371766874172 0.343871460585 108% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.