I wonder how this relates to how we learn our primary language in the first place. My parents put objects in front of me and gave me the word to associate with them, or talked around the meaning of abstract words. I learned English (my primary language) entirely verbally. Then, when I began to learn to read, I learned what sounds letters made, and verbalized these sounds when reading, and tried to parse those sounds into a word I recognized. Since I learned my language verbally, the process to comprehension included conversion to sound. This has continued to my adult life; I wonder if I can re-train my brain to associate text with meaning. I also wonder if I do this already, but every time I try to notice whether I&#x27;m internally verbalizing, I internally verbalize (because it&#x27;s in the back of my mind), so I think I do regularly even though that may not be the case.<p>Experimenting with this idea would likely require teaching children with text, which may or may not be ethical. Sign language is different enough from English that it doesn&#x27;t directly relate.