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Learning Japanese with One Piece

Difficulty: Easy

Harder than 15 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 54.

From the Japanese subtitles of 30 episodes.

Difficulty ranking
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How many words you need

67% of the words in One Piece 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: 78%
  3. 5,000 words: 84%
  4. 10,000 words: 88%

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
1,972
About average among the 70 shows.
Words a line
5.1
Shorter lines than most. About 380 subtitle lines an episode.

5,479 different words across the 30 episodes analyzed.

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