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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 3506540, member: 7874"] When I was pursuing my MBA, in several of my classes there was a young woman from Venezuela. The government paid for her to get a MBA in the USA. Her spoken English was rough, however, she could read quite well and understand spoken English with apparent ease. As I recall her grades were very good. So it could work. Asking questions in class was problematic for her. It reminded me of my struggles with the German language. My spoken German was, frankly, atrocious. However, my reading comprehension was as if I were reading English. I could understand spoken German well enough but not with ease. I needed lots of practice to parse the words. Grandpa's linguistic genes were only sparsely represented in my DNA. [/QUOTE]