mayumi hosoya, who is forty, teaches japanese at a community college in new york. "next semester, I will be teaching some of my classes using the internet. this is new for me,"says mayumi. " at the same time, mayumi's seventy-year-old mother and father are talking a distance learning course in art history. " We love the subject, " says mayumi's father, "and now we can study with people from all over the world. I never thought learning could be this much fun.