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Learning Japanese with Haikyu!!

Difficulty: Medium

Harder than 42 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 27.

From the Japanese subtitles of 25 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

60% of the words in Haikyu!! are among the 1,000 most common anime words.

Most common anime words you know Words you’d recognize
  1. 1,000 words: 60%
  2. 3,000 words: 72%
  3. 5,000 words: 79%
  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
2,215
More talk than most of the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.1
Shorter lines than most. About 440 subtitle lines an episode.

5,171 different words across the 25 episodes analyzed.

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