Mr. van Daan. No courses; looks up many things in Knaur's Encyclopedia and Lexicon;

likes to read detective stories, medical books and love stories, exciting or trivial.

Mrs. van Daan. A correspondence course in English; likes to read biographical novels and occasionally other kinds of novels.

Mr. Frank. Is learning English (Dickens!) and a bit of Latin; never reads novels, but likes serious, rather dry descriptions of people and places.

Mrs. Frank. A correspondence course in English; reads everything except detective stories.

Mr. Dussel. Is learning English, Spanish and Dutch with no noticeable results; reads everything; goes along with the opinion of the majority.

Peter van Daan. Is learning English, French (correspondence course), shorthand in Dutch, English and German,

commercial correspondence in English, woodworking, economics and sometimes math; seldom reads, sometimes geography.

Margot Frank. Correspondence courses in English, French and Latin, shorthand in English, German and Dutch,

trigonometry, solid geometry, mechanics, physics, chemistry, algebra, geometry,

English literature, French literature, German literature, Dutch literature, bookkeeping, geography,

modern history, biology, economics; reads everything, preferably on religion and medicine.