From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T12:42:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)

Hi,

In message "Re: Bit of the Matz Interview (in Rubyist Magazine)"
    on Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:48:18 -0500, Shashank Date <sdate@everestkc.net> writes:

|I am curious to know how reading is taught in schools ... do they start
|with a specific writing system?

Yes, they learn Hiragana and Katakana first.  My 7 year old
son does not read any Kanji.

I'm curious about how Chinese children learn to write, since
they have no phonetic writing system.

							matz.