Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo

Drama·
#38 most popular
·日本人の知らない日本語·The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know
Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo
2010/07/15
Speech time
4h 31min
Word count26,279
Unique words
3,865
Unique kanji
1,138
Avg. sentence9.6
Speech speed
260
Difficulty ≈ Average
Episodes12
Rating
78 %

Haruko lands a job in a local tutoring establishment and upon showing up for work on the first day, she discovers that she will not be teaching Japanese people, but teaching people Japanese. Her students are all foreigners who live in Japan for several reasons, and she is faced with their many questions on the Japanese Language that she'd never really thought of before.

Genres
Comedy
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo is a Japanese drama of 62,616 characters, with 3,865 unique words and 1,138 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,865 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
22min
Word count2,093
Unique words
692
Unique kanji
370
Avg. sentence8.5
Speech speed
253
Difficulty Average

Episode 2

Speech time
22min
Word count2,190
Unique words
671
Unique kanji
327
Avg. sentence10.2
Speech speed
267
Difficulty Average

Episode 3

Speech time
23min
Word count2,210
Unique words
708
Unique kanji
378
Avg. sentence9.1
Speech speed
241
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
22min
Word count2,059
Unique words
679
Unique kanji
372
Avg. sentence9.4
Speech speed
248
Difficulty Average

Episode 5

Speech time
23min
Word count2,186
Unique words
719
Unique kanji
336
Avg. sentence9.5
Speech speed
250
Difficulty Easy

Episode 6

Speech time
20min
Word count2,087
Unique words
683
Unique kanji
361
Avg. sentence9.4
Speech speed
272
Difficulty Average

Episode 7

Speech time
25min
Word count2,516
Unique words
801
Unique kanji
364
Avg. sentence9.9
Speech speed
259
Difficulty Average

Episode 8

Speech time
20min
Word count2,022
Unique words
690
Unique kanji
345
Avg. sentence11.2
Speech speed
269
Difficulty Average

Episode 9

Speech time
24min
Word count2,463
Unique words
685
Unique kanji
305
Avg. sentence9.7
Speech speed
262
Difficulty Average

Episode 10

Speech time
24min
Word count2,339
Unique words
829
Unique kanji
371
Avg. sentence8.9
Speech speed
253
Difficulty Average

Episode 11

Speech time
22min
Word count2,395
Unique words
692
Unique kanji
376
Avg. sentence9.5
Speech speed
287
Difficulty Average

Episode 12

Speech time
18min
Word count1,719
Unique words
560
Unique kanji
326
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
265
Difficulty Average

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Vocabulary highlights

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