Literacy

We’ve hired a language tutor to help us stop forgetting what little we know of Chinyanja.
Art helps run the local adult literacy program that we have begun working with, so he seemed like a good person to advance our literacy.
Art spent last Friday morning going over a grade four textbook with us. We read a story about wild dogs ganging up on a lion. I understood about three percent of it until Art explained it, word by painstaking word.
Can it be truthfully called “adult literacy” if a grade four textbook is way, way over my head?
In town yesterday, I bought grade two. With lots more pictures, it is more my speed. Grade four I’ll work up to.