| 1 | First, she taught me how to read. | |
| 2 | I can't read or write; I can't even speak standard Mandarin well. | |
| 3 | Johnny, who's almost 10, can't read, but no one is worried. | |
| 4 | I was an illiterate in the old society, but now I can read. | |
| 5 | My brother was taught to read by my mother, and similarly, so was I. |