Ru: Taiwan Express

Drama·路(ルウ)~台湾エクスプレス~
Ru: Taiwan Express
2020/05/16
Speech time
2h 23min
Word count10,676
Unique words
1,300
Unique kanji
582
Avg. sentence8.6
Speech speed
198
Difficulty Average
Episodes7

In 1999, a general trading company in Tokyo celebrates because Shinkansen of Japan wins priority negotiating rights for the Taiwan High Speed Rail. Haruka Tada (Haru) has been working at the general trading company for 4 years and she is sent to Taiwan for work. When Haruka Tada was a university student, she visited Taiwan for the first time during the summer. During that time, she happened to meet young Taiwanese man Eric and he showed her Taiwan for a day. She lost contact with him after that and she could not find him again. She then sealed away her thoughts about him in her mind. 6 years later, Haruka Tada arrives in Taiwan again.

Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Ru: Taiwan Express is a Japanese drama of 24,585 characters, with 1,300 unique words and 582 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,300 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
19min
Word count1,654
Unique words
601
Unique kanji
333
Avg. sentence8.1
Speech speed
229
Difficulty Average

Episode 2

Speech time
22min
Word count1,663
Unique words
567
Unique kanji
306
Avg. sentence8.7
Speech speed
199
Difficulty Average

Episode 3

Speech time
19min
Word count1,311
Unique words
485
Unique kanji
266
Avg. sentence8.8
Speech speed
173
Difficulty Average

Episode 4

Speech time
13min
Word count991
Unique words
407
Unique kanji
248
Avg. sentence8.9
Speech speed
196
Difficulty Average

Episode 5

Speech time
30min
Word count2,482
Unique words
787
Unique kanji
418
Avg. sentence8.5
Speech speed
215
Difficulty Average

Episode 6

Speech time
19min
Word count1,212
Unique words
432
Unique kanji
235
Avg. sentence8.3
Speech speed
165
Difficulty Average

Episode 7

Speech time
18min
Word count1,363
Unique words
520
Unique kanji
282
Avg. sentence8.8
Speech speed
198
Difficulty Average

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Vocabulary highlights

Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.

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