Most were unable to read or write.

I prefer reading to writing.

He can read and write.

Tom can read and write.

Reading and writing is utterly useless.

Tom can neither read nor write.

She teaches reading and writing.

My son can neither read nor write yet.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He spent his youth learning to hunt, run, and fight, made him a daring, powerful and a brave warrior, but he never learned to read or write.

Although she could no longer read or write, drawing was one thing she could still do and she found a real passion for it.

The boy is learning to read and write.

Someone who was terrible at languages, and at any given time, speak, read and write five or six.

Listening to a language being spoken is very different from reading or writing the same language.

But it's useful for everybody to learn how to read and write.

Now he learned to read and write in German.

By the age of nine, Mary could read and write Latin.

So, the U.N. estimated this is 2004 figures that there are almost 800 million people who can't read and write, worldwide.

It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English.

We feel so nice that our children can teach us how to read and write.

The couple devoted their time to writing, reading, learning, sightseeing, and socialising.

He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career did not have substantial knowledge of reading or writing musical notation.

For me that meant no reading, no writing, no video games, no work or email, no running, no alcohol, no caffeine.

Child Our parents are illiterate and we want to teach them how to read and write.

It's almost as if they can read but not write with new technologies.

Most word processors are able to read and write some versions of RTF.

He may have been taught to read and write by his grandmother, Ana Quitéria.

Education Over 99 of Germans aged 15 and above are estimated to be able to read and write.

The villagers were so surprised that they could read and write in Bambara on the Web!

In China, the definition of literacy is the ability to read and write 1,500 Chinese characters.

He was the second child of Robert and Mabel Stephenson, neither of whom could read or write.

As a lonely child, Capote taught himself both to read and to write before he entered his first year of school.

Candidates for deputy had to be able to read and write, and have a certain amount of wealth.

)Sex ratio br at birth 1.06 male(s) female br under 15 years 1.05 male(s) female br 15 64 years 0.96 male(s) female br 65 years and over 0.53 male(s) female br total population 0.89 male(s) female (2009 est.

The twentieth century was that century where, at least for those places we know the best, culture moved from this read write to read only existence.

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When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things.

And why, why when the rest of the children were learning how to read and write, I was learning how to fight.

In fact, she inspired him to write about a totally different subject which you can read about here.

He knew how to read and write and he described in his notebooks the medical properties of the plants found in the region.

As part of a vast social campaign, anyone between the ages of 12 and 40 who could not read or write was mandated to attend classes to learn.

Kurosawa would later write or co write all of his own films.

Ideally, s he will have the ability to read and write well in at least one language other than English and have a working knowledge of other languages.

I think that for reading and writing, one must first be educated, but with images it's different.

According to reports that reached Human Rights Watch the government rally promoting peace was made possible by intimidation.