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Old 05-11-2021, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Raellus View Post
That's a good point. All of the game systems that I'm familiar with (admittedly, not a large number) don't differentiate between understanding/speaking a language and being able to read/write and/or understand written language. If the written language uses the same alphabet as the learner's own language, then the skill difference is probably negligible (assuming the user is functional literate in his/her own language) but, as you point out, if the written language is different (different alphabet, ideographs instead of phonograms, etc.), then it's almost an entirely different skill.

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CORPS gives a discount for a related language as well as for only learning spoken or written (assuming different character set).
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