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Learning Japanese with Fruits Basket

Difficulty: Medium

Harder than 26 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 43.

From the Japanese subtitles of 25 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

67% of the words in Fruits Basket are among the 1,000 most common anime words.

Most common anime words you know Words you’d recognize
  1. 1,000 words: 67%
  2. 3,000 words: 77%
  3. 5,000 words: 81%
  4. 10,000 words: 86%

What to expect from the dialogue

Heavily anime-leaning

Vocabulary from other anime carries over well here; a general word list gets you less far.

Words an episode
2,361
More talk than most of the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.2
About average. About 450 subtitle lines an episode.

5,939 different words across the 25 episodes analyzed.

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