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Beyond the Boundary in Japanese

境界の彼方 Kyoukai no Kanata 12 episodes · 2013

Its 12 episodes have 11,783 words, 2,597 of them different, and 53% of those appear only once.

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Kyoukai no Kanata

78%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning Beyond the Boundary's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 2,597 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 123words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 742words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 1,419words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 2,008words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 2,362words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 742 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 140, half need 612, and three quarters need 1,820.

Words learned, most frequent first
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 words learned Half the lines fully known after 612 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Episode by episode

Episode 1 uses 598 different words. From episode 7 on, an episode brings about 138 that no earlier episode used. Each panel is to the same scale.

  1. 1 Episode 1: 598 new words of 598
  2. 2 Episode 2: 363 new words of 541
  3. 3 Episode 3: 229 new words of 477
  4. 4 Episode 4: 108 new words of 308
  5. 5 Episode 5: 226 new words of 509
  6. 6 Episode 6: 246 new words of 591
  7. 7 Episode 7: 167 new words of 458
  8. 8 Episode 8: 225 new words of 572
  9. 9 Episode 9: 86 new words of 374
  10. 10 Episode 10: 133 new words of 520
  11. 11 Episode 11: 89 new words of 428
  12. 12 Episode 12: 127 new words of 495

Words no earlier episode used (the number)Words already seen

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of all 12 episodes, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 10% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted