I think Skipper's brain is going to explode.

Skipper has learned a handful of Japanese words this week. I just picked her up from school, and on the walk home, she said "Mom, does Japanese have pictures in it instead of words?" so I promised to look up the history of Japanese characters when I got home.

And I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system and oh my lord. And that led me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language and apparently this is EXTREMELY complicated.