Typical Japanese kid’s summer vacation
My son is 9 years old. His summer vacation has just started. Do you know what Japanese summer vacation is like? Today, I’ll introduce a typical Japanese summer vacation for elementary school students. 40-day-vacation, too long! The vacation is so long. It continues for about 40 days. Children usually bring a lot of homework back home. It’s the parent’s responsibility to make children finish all of their homework by the vacation ends. I want my son to manage homework properly, I created a chart for him. I hope he sees this chart and does homework spontaneously. Let’s see how it will work! Up to now, it hasn’t been working though. lol How we get Chinese characters Can you imagine how Japanese children learn Chinese characters? Typically, children start to learn reading and writing from 6-7 years old, the 1st grade of elementary school. First, they learn from Hiragana and Katakana (both are the basic Japanese characters), and next, they start to learn Chinese characters. I think you know there are countless Chinese characters. In Japan, students learn those from which the most frequent use. The number of Chinese characters students learning are 80 pieces in the 1st grade, 160 pieces […]