Chapter 328: [Words Are Like Needles]
<Can you understand 80% of English with just 1000 words!? Then, my 4000-word answer is not even close!?>
<Haha. That’s right.>
<Oh,e on!>
Ilyena, realizing she was being teased, was cutely angry.
Maybe it’s a bit of an infection from the mischievous habits of Angu Ogu.
?1000 words, huh. Isn’t that about how many words you learn by middle school?
?Indeed, it seems like the number of words listed in vocabry books was around that.
?So, if you can manage middle school English, does that mean you can actually speak English pretty well?
<Nowadays, with the revised curriculum, you’re expected to learn 2000 words by graduation, but… that’s correct. The vocabry required for actual conversation is surprisingly small. Here’s the second question!><I’ll get it right this time! Leave it to me!>
<Now, for Japanese. How many words do you need to learn to achieve an 80% coverage?>
<Hmm. It seems like it would be more than English.>
?Twice as many as before, so 2000!
?It seems like it would be more. Maybe 3000?
?Or is it actually the same as before, just 1000? (Ukrainian)
<The correct answer is—5000 words>
<!?!?!? I can’t believe it! I’ve actually learned Japanese quite well!?>
<I really think it’s amazing. By the way, for Ukrainian, it would be around 2000 words.>
<The difficulty of learning varies so much bynguage. If you want to learn Japanese, it takes about five times the effortpared to English.>
<It’s not necessarily the case that the number of words is directly proportional to the difficulty, so you can’t generalize. But as an indicator, yes.>
There’s also talk that you can handle anynguage fully by learning 100,000 to 200,000 words.
Well, the truth of this is debatable.
After all, it’s said that the average Japanese person uses about 50,000 words in their lifetime.
So if that’s the case for the vocabry-rich Japanese, it seems a lot.
Well, I don’t know which data is correct.
After all, I’ve never counted the number of words I know… or even the number ofnguages I know, so it’s impossible to track the exact number of words.
<By the way, this is trivia, but the kanji ‘彙’ in ‘vocabry’ means ‘hedgehog’, and it’s said that a hedgehog has about 5000 quills on its back.>
<That feels a bit fateful.>
<Yeah~>
<By the way, I also feel a fateful connection with meeting Iroha-sama! No, I can definitely assert that Iroha-sama is my destined partner!>
<We weren’t talking about that. Well, thanks.>
?Ah, Iroha-chan looked away. (Ukrainian)
?Iroha-chan was embarrassed just now, wasn’t she? (Ukrainian)
?So cute. (Ukrainian)
<Sh-shut up!>
Also, the Ukrainian.S. Department of State estimates the difficulty of Japanese for diplomats in five levels, and Japanese is the only one designated as ‘Category 5+’, the highest difficulty level.
It’s estimated that 88 weeks–2200 hours of learning are required.
Well, this is likely influenced by the “distance” of thenguage.
In contrast,nguages closer to English, like French, Spanish, and Italian, are expected to be learned in 24 weeks.
<But when you think about it… Ilyena-chan, you really learned Japanese quickly, didn’t you?>
<I don’t want to hear that from Iroha-sama!?>
?This is “you’re the one to talk” level (Ukrainian)
?When Iroha-chan says it, it sounds like sarcasm. w (Ukrainian)
?So, in the end, it’s better to learn English than Japanese? QED? (Ukrainian)
<That’s…>
<That’s─‘No’!>
Surprisingly, it was Ilyena herself who denied thatment.
She had been rmending English all along until now.
I pulled back my earlier words and focused on her continuation.
<It’s true that English is easier to learn. On top of that, I’ll say this. If you have someone you like…>
<――You should choose anguage based on ‘love’, not difficulty!>
<Learn thenguage of the person you like. After all, love is the strongest “original power” that surpasses everything!>
For some reason, I felt Ilyena’s gaze through the screen.
Her words made my heart naturally tremble.
?When Illysha says it, it has a different weight. (Ukrainian)
?I’ve decided. After all, I’ll study Japanese because I love Iroha-chan. (Ukrainian)
?Maybe I should try studying English one more time.
<Everyone…!>
<I-Ilyena-chan… hic, sob>
<What!? Even Iroha-sama!? >
?Iroha-chan is crying!? (Ukrainian)
?What’s with this sudden turn!? It was a good story, but that much!? (Ukrainian)
?Could it be that Illysha’s feelings have finally reached Iroha-chan!? (Ukrainian)
<Ilyena-chan, I’m… moved! I felt exactly the same way! After all, it’s best to work hard for the “one you love”!>
<…Ah, yes. That’s right.>
?This is Illysha’s defeat w It’s not getting through (Ukrainian)
?It’s strange. Why does it sound like a different meaning when Iroha-chan says it? (Ukrainian)
?This kind of reaction only happens when VTubers are involved… I expected it. (Ukrainian)
<Anyway, for those who are here today, many fans of Iroha-sama… probably want to learn Japanese, not English.>
In the case of ‘Trantion Girl Iroha’, she can speak English and othernguages and does foreignnguage broadcasts.
However, the mostmon is still Japanese broadcasts.
<For those people, I’d like to talk about the parts I found difficult in learning Japanese!>