Lady, EVOLVED 
@Lady Yes we do.
Talmudic study is (primarily, albeit not universally) conversational, and so requires the ability to speak* as a prerequisite.
(* in the "communicate" sense (not restricting to oral/aural), that one can speak ASL or with an AAC device or etc.)
we don’t know for a fact that Meowth didn’t teach himself to speak thru Talmudic study