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Whisper of the Heart in Japanese

耳をすませば Mimi Wo Sumaseba Film · 1995

The film has 3,823 words, 1,195 of them different, and 57% of those appear only once.

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82%of its words are among the 2,000 most common

Words to learn

Learning Whisper of the Heart's own most frequent words first, this many cover each share of its dialogue. The bar under each is out of all 1,195 different words.

  1. 50%of the dialogue 115words
  2. 80%of the dialogue 475words
  3. 90%of the dialogue 813words
  4. 95%of the dialogue 1,004words
  5. 98%of the dialogue 1,119words

Words and whole lines

A line needs every one of its words, so whole lines lag behind words. With 475 words you know 80% of what is said, but to know every word of the lines, a quarter need 124, half need 390, and three quarters need 959.

Words learned, most frequent first
0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 1,000 2,000 words learned Half the lines fully known after 390 words

Dialogue coveredLines with every word known

Similar difficulty

Counted automatically from the Japanese subtitles of the film, leaving out character names. Vocabulary only: speaking speed and slang are not measured. 4% of lines could not be fully analyzed and are left out of the whole-line figures. How these numbers are counted