Language isn't technology?

While reading chapter three of The Shallows, Nicholas Carr explains that Language is not a technology, but reading and writing is. Now he explains that when you read, you use your mind to put the letters together and create them into the language that you understand, but I was thinking, wouldn’t speaking another language be equivalent to that process? When you speak another language or listen to another language, you process it in your head to understand it. For example, say you speak Spanish, before you open your mouth to speak, you say it in your head to make sure it is right, then, you say whatever it is that you have to say. Also, say somebody is speaking to you in Spanish, you listen and in your head you translate what they are saying into words that you can understand. So if you think about it, wouldn’t speaking and listening to other languages be a technology as well?