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Learn Japanese with Hunter x Hunter

This beginner course is made from the lines of Hunter x Hunter (2011). You start from zero, in your browser, and learn the words and grammar the show uses most. Each line has at most one word you haven't learned yet.

  • about 1,000words
  • about 170grammar pieces
  • 890lines from the show
  • 1 to 30episodes

With each word you learn, you can understand longer lines.

Got it. · Episode 23 · New word: 分かった (understood / got it)

I see, got it. · Episode 9 · New word: なるほど (I see)

More lines from the course

I'm Kurapika. · Episode 1 · New word: 私 (I)

And then what? · Episode 21 · New word: そして (and then)

The voice is a speech synthesizer, not the show's cast.

After 25 lessons, you will know every word in 226 lines from the show

Each lesson teaches four new words. If you do one lesson a day, 25 lessons take less than a month. With three lessons a day, the most you can do, it takes 9 days.

226 lines may not sound like a lot. But it feels great when one of them comes up in an episode and you understand every word.

  1. After 5 lessons · 88 lines

    Who's there?! · Episode 8

    That's right. · Episode 28

  2. After 10 lessons · 138 lines

    You can't. · Episode 20

    Over there! · Episode 16

  3. After 25 lessons · 226 lines

    Of course I'll go. · Episode 17

    The rest is just waiting. · Episode 15

  4. After 50 lessons · 359 lines

    Hey, wait, kid. · Episode 7

    Don't push yourself. · Episode 19

Words you hear in Hunter x Hunter far more than in other anime

We counted the words in the first 30 episodes and compared them with 16 other anime.

  • ハンターhunter

    20x more often than average

  • 試験exam

    11x more often than average

  • 門gate

    6x more often than average

Most of the words you learn first aren't special to Hunter x Hunter. 78 of the first 100 words and grammar pieces also come up in most of the other anime.

We also measured how many lines you can follow in eight anime if you know their most common words: With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines.

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