Some of it. But being able to read it's only one skill.

( she pauses for a moment, thinking back to each moment )

Each one was a little different. I went to an English-speaking school so I learned to read in English, speak it, write. And my mom read stories to me in German, and then with me.

( it's a memory that will always make her smile, the love of her mother's home that she'd learned and felt through little things, and loved it because of this )

Arabic I learned through conversation so I can't read it too well, I speak it better, but that was how I mostly needed it.

I'd show you something but honestly I don't know now if that would even work.