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It is very strange to me that people can be illiterate (as in, unable to read anything) in Mexico considering how easy the written Spanish language is (compared
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
It is very strange to me that people can be illiterate (as in, unable to read anything) in Mexico considering how easy the written Spanish language is (compared to e. g. English) and how prevalent is it around the globe.
They should be seeing written phrases everywhere and these should be trivial to read once they know the alphabet.
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- dannyp32 14y agoWell that's not what the author means by illiterate. He uses it as a way of saying that they virtually never read books.
- raverbashing 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy
- corporalagumbo 14y agoI wouldn't be surprised if the word/s the author used in Spanish for illiteracy indicated this distinction, which has then been lost in translation. Maybe.
- austenallred 14y agoAgreed. I learned the Russian alphabet in a day - you learn the sounds for each symbol and you're done. It took a long time to speed up, of course, and i had the background of already reading in English, but Spanish isn't Chinese or Japanese (or English for that matter).
- Evbn 14y agoA couple dozen letters, but lots and lots of words.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoThey already know all the words (they speak them) and they don't need to spell (especially when reading).