The evidence is all around you, in the fact that every child that learns to speak, does so without having learned to read and write first. Now, when I learned Thai, I did learn the Thai alphabet, and learned to read and write Thai but it is absolutely not the only way to learn. My daughter, for instance, speaks fluent Thai (much, much better than mine) but she never did learn to read or write Thai, beyond knowing how to write her own name.
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