🇬🇧🇪🇸 literacy - alfabetización : English Lesson

Meaning of "literacy" ("alfabetización"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Literacy is the skill that lets you read words in books and write your own words on paper or screens so you can understand stories, signs, homework, and messages and also share your own ideas with other people.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Because of literacy, I know the menu says “broccoli,” so I bravely ordered fries instead.

Thanks to literacy, I discovered the shampoo bottle says “Do not drink,” which ruined my breakfast plans.

My literacy is strong enough to do homework, but mysteriously too weak to read the words “Clean your room.”

Literacy helped me realize the “mystery button” on the remote actually says “power,” not “do not touch ever.”

Literacy doesn’t just help with books—researchers found that better literacy is linked to better health.

An old woman sits on a bench and reads a yellow sign. Her hands tremble as she names it aloud. At a free class she learned literacy, held literacy in her hand, and shows literacy by reading a story to her grandson. He shows his literacy by copying a word. Literacy glows in both. They cry and laugh.

This word is at the C1 level, which means it’s part of advanced English. It’s used in sophisticated conversations, professional settings, and academic discussions. Words at this level help you express yourself fluently and precisely in nuanced situations.

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