A question that I always ask myself (I've even asked a teacher who taught me during training days,but I wasn't satisfied with her answer.)An illiterate person is the one who doesn't know neither write nor read , so how can he speak correctly ,respecting the liaison between the words. Example in French he says: Les amis ( lézamis).How can he know that "Les" ends in "s" and "amis" starts with an "a" and make the liaison between the last letter in "les" and the first letter in "amis".And did the liaison exist before man started writing and reading?:confused:

He can speak correctly, although a little stilted, because he can hear the spoken word and therfore learn from it. I don't know what you mean by 'respecting the liaison'?

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Children learn to speak before they can read and write,they hear the language and learn to form sentences from listening and copying what they here.