Funnily enough, my daughter (who has just started 6th form at a new school) was in maths the other day, and she get's a shout from the other side of the classroom.
"Mel, can you count to ten in Japanese"
Mel - "I'm not a language student"
"No, but can you count to ten in Japanese"
Mel - "Yes I can" - and proceeded to do so.
Another day some of the kids were doing some sort of puzzle or quiz, and it gave a load of Kanji to be translated - sounds a bit difficult to me?.
Anyway, they asked Melissa (christ knows why?), and she looked and then said "they are days of the week, each line has that same symbol on, and that means 'day', and there are seven lines - so probably days of the week".
At least now she's in a class of clever people!