One of the oldest girls, Lone (LOOH-ni), has really caught on.

One day when Tora had asked for help learning some words, Lone got very eager.

"Even after the other children went outside to play, she stayed behind and continued giving me words," Tora said. "She was asking, 'What do you call this?,' and I would say the word in Greenlandic if I knew it. If I didn't know it, she would tell me. As she kept on asking, walking around in my apartment looking for things, she also made sure that I wrote everything down -- even those words I already knew. She did not want to stop before I had several pages full of words.

"Now you are going to be very busy learning all those words, aren't you?"

Another day when Lone and some other children were visiting Tora, Lone asked if she could have some paper and two pens that wrote in different colors. She sat down next to Tora and started writing some Danish words that she had heard. Then she asked Tora what they meant in Greenlandic.

"Most of them I knew, and the rest we looked up in a dictionary," Tora said. Lone carefully wrote the Danish in one color, and the Greenlandic in another color, the way she had seen Tora take notes so she could learn Greenlandic. "She [Lone] wanted hers to be exactly the same."

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