Broadcast medium called best for reaching poor and illiterate.
In his free time, he wrote letters home for wounded and illiterate Civil War soldiers.
Frau Schmitz was illiterate almost all her life; she only learned to read and write in prison.
Years later we realized her marks were a ruse. My mother was illiterate; she had only received a third-grade education.
Second, about one-third of the population is considered “illiterate”, meaning in this context that not even a full-fledged medical EEG can convert their brain activities into actions.
I have been illiterate for so long.
Most of the older miners have just a primary school education and some are illiterate.
In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he hated books,this caused him to be not wholly illiterate.
The daughter of an illiterate mother who encouraged her daughter to read and write, she tells me when she was young she was mocked as she walked to school alone.
I'm functionally illiterate.
Still, most Afars remain illiterate, with little access to clean water or to medicine.
We see so many statistics that horrify us: how many are hungry, how many are illiterate, how many are denied access to clean water and sanitation.
A former groom and then a jockey and quite illiterate, he was a protege of the notorious Christian Weber, one of Hitler's oldest party cronies and himself a horse fancier, who by fraudulence had amassed a fortune and a great racing stable after 1933.
She was born to an illiterate mother who ran her own hacienda.
He read everything and talked about what he read to his fellow townsmen, patients who were illiterate peasants, the estate shepherds, and this gave him a local reputation for foolishness.
He was fond of calling his detractor illiterate, denouncing his scientific theories as illegitimate and illusive.
If one is illiterate here, it is only because he wants to be, because education is free and so is the health care, which is fundamental in our lives.
But the number of people choosing to be malnourished, illiterate, lacking in basic possessions and drinkers of dirty water all at once is probably fleetingly small.
Not bad for an illiterate Ethiopian peasant who as a child never went to a day of school.
Dismissive of Waheeba, she scorns the very idea that this lump of a woman, “obese, menopausal, illiterate”, could be her rival in anything.
As many as half remained illiterate or semi-illiterate in both Vietnamese and English and never became U.S. citizens.
"If she hadn't done that, I'd be illiterate," Miller says.
