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Learning Japanese with DAN DA DAN

Difficulty: Medium

Harder than 29 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 40.

From the Japanese subtitles of 12 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

65% of the words in DAN DA DAN are among the 1,000 most common anime words.

Most common anime words you know Words you’d recognize
  1. 1,000 words: 65%
  2. 3,000 words: 75%
  3. 5,000 words: 83%
  4. 10,000 words: 87%

What to expect from the dialogue

Anime-leaning

Anime vocabulary pays off a little faster here than a general word list.

Words an episode
2,159
More talk than most of the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.1
About average. About 420 subtitle lines an episode.

3,549 different words across the 12 episodes analyzed.

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