text: is the ability to speak and write english an indication of intelligence? a member by the name of fsb2u2004 insinuated that this is the case. what about people who speak 6 other languages fluently (i know such people) - but they still happen to struggle with english - are they not intelligent? i don't think all english speaking people can be considered intelligent, and neither the other way around. it just means that maybe you were born in a geographical area. nothing more. there are some studies that show that different languages require different sides of the brain to be spoken. if that is the case, the difficulties on learning a english can be only a temporary "out of practice" use of that side of the brain. it just takes some more time. the same with all the other languages.