Sentence examples for become literate from inspiring English sources

After we become literate, we literally "think differently" about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

Indeed, the Chinese word for culture (wenhua) means "to become literate".

A girl in South Sudan is three times as likely to die in childbirth as to become literate.

Many non-English newspapers are growing three times as fast, as about twenty million more Indians become literate each year.

Such is the case with many speakers of South American Indian languages, who become literate in Spanish or Portuguese.

School was a radical concept in a time and place where enslaved people were rarely educated to become literate.

As a result, the whole Cherokee nation became literate almost overnight.

As black farmers became more prosperous and as more blacks became literate clerks and teachers, many individuals qualified to vote.

The syllabary a system of writing in which each symbol represents a syllable was so successful that almost the entire tribe became literate within a short time.

Copeland, like most slaves, is woefully underdocumented; we know that she somehow became literate, migrated to New York in the 1880s and found a job in domestic service.

The Belgian colonial system maintained a rigorous paternal structure, however, and, although more subjects became literate in Congo than in other colonies, few could aspire to higher skills or managerial posts.