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How hard is 木曜日にはココアを to read?
Hot Chocolate on Thursday
By 青山美智子 · In Japanese
- Words for 95% of the text
- 8,420
- Sentence length
- 14.4 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 72 per 1,000
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In Japanese, Hot Chocolate on Thursday is an intermediate read in our library. Aoyama writes everyday life in a Tokyo café and in Sydney in sentences of ordinary length, with a modest share of plain dialogue, and a good part of the harder words are katakana loanwords (cocoa, apron, sandwich, turquoise) that an English speaker reads almost for free. What asks for patience is the breadth: twelve linked stories, each with its own narrator, job and setting, bring in more vocabulary than one plot would, much of it on no JLPT list, so a reader will still be tapping on words, though rarely on grammar.
MnemoRead measured this book from its full text: how many of the language's most common words you need to follow it, and how long its sentences are.
How hard this book is
Easier than 94% of our Japanese books
The score rises with the words needed to cover 95% of the text and with sentence length. It is the same in every language. Books within about ten points of each other read about as hard.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 8,420
- Sentence length
- 14.4 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 28 words
- Length
- Short
- 36,609 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 72 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 21%
- Kanji among the characters
- 22%
Vocabulary needed
Share of the text covered by the most common words of the language.
Names of people and places count as known words.
Show the numbers
| Most common words | Share of the text |
|---|---|
| 100 | 65.1% |
| 250 | 72.4% |
| 500 | 77.8% |
| 1,000 | 82.1% |
| 2,000 | 87.6% |
| 3,000 | 90.1% |
| 5,000 | 92.8% |
| 7,500 | 94.5% |
| 10,000 | 95.9% |
| 15,000 | 97.3% |
| 20,000 | 98.2% |
| 30,000 | 99.0% |
JLPT word lists
Share of the text each level's words cover, with the levels below it. N5 and N4 are the textbook lists; N3 to N1 are the words common in the novels learners grade at that level. No list covers a whole novel: literary and rare words lie outside it. The book's vocabulary is rated at the first level that covers nearly all of what the whole list covers (98.5%).
JLPT kanji
Words to learn first
The words this book uses most that are not among the 5,000 most common of the language, with how often each appears.
- ココア×49
- 微笑む×19
- 卵焼き×17
- 麒麟×13
- 頷く×12
- エプロン×11
- ショーツ×10
- ピー×10
- 前世×10
- 魔女×9
- アルバイト×8
- サンドイッチ×8
- ジャカランダ×8
- スケッチブック×8
- ターコイズ×8
- 俯く×8
- 画家×8
- ガーター×7
- ホリデー×7
- ワーキング×7
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