Three times a month we teach English at Silver City, a senior citizens home in Kushiro. There are 10 students in our class their ages ranging from 75 to 100!
Today we taught consonant identification by having our students bend and/or connect coloured pipe cleaners into Ns, Ps, Qs, Ss....
Our eldest student is 100 years of age and you should have seen him make his letters. He needed a little assistance at times to know what letter we were working on but once he knew that, he was quick and accurate. We were so impressed!
I really should not have been surprised considering that most Japanese seniors know the letters for three different alphabets -hiragana and katakana (the Japanese ones), and Kanji (the Chinese of which there are over 2000 characters). All school age students now learn and can recognize the Romanji alphabet (that would be the one we use).
And I thought we had it tough having to learn 26 letters of the English alphabet.
Ha!
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