As someone who learned English from Spanish, this strikes me as totally off: > In English, if you can speak something, you can write it too Compared to Spanis

As someone who learned English from Spanish, this strikes me as totally off: > In English, if you can speak something, you can write it too Compared to Spanish, Italian or Japanese hiragana/katakana, this is not true at all in English. It is _more true_ than in Chinese/Japanese (Kanji), but still not much. It is in fact one of the things that English Learners struggle with the most!