Learning Japanese with Polar Bear Cafe
Difficulty: Easy
Harder than 16 of the 70 shows analyzed, easier than 53.
From the Japanese subtitles of 15 episodes.
How many words you need
of the words in Polar Bear Cafe are among the 1,000 most common anime words.
- 1,000 words: 69%
- 3,000 words: 76%
- 5,000 words: 83%
- 10,000 words: 89%
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
- 1,503
- Less talk than most of the 70 shows.
- Words a line
- 3.9
- Shorter lines than most. About 390 subtitle lines an episode.
3,359 different words across the 15 episodes analyzed.