If your army friends' kids are in the public school, I commend them for their ability to absorb Japanese. My sisters had to go to a Japanese kindergarten, where the locals didn't speak any english yet. They'd never seen such bright green or blue eyes either, and kept touching my sisters' faces. They got pinkeye often.
Japanese is surprisingly easy to learn. It doesn't have the descriptive use that english does. Everything is a general "you know what I mean" statement or question.
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