Multicultural bi-lingual kids

The First grade teacher asks the students if anyone knows how to speak another language. Laura raises her hand and tells everyone she knows Japanese. Somewhere there is a Japanese princess cartoon with the word Kaneekeshah (or close). While she was imparting this experience on us she tells us how her best friend in school is Maya and she is half Chinese. Jimmy intelligently states that she must only know half of the chinese words then.