First, I will be away Sunday and Monday so don't send anything to be returned before Tuesday.<br /><br />As to the abilities issue, you're only talking about English language abilities. There are many other kinds of abilities: birds can build nests, chimps can make tools and be taught to count, animals have their own forms of communication, etc. And tens of millions of Chinese will do just fine without English. One day, we may all have to learn Chinese.