I am new to studying Japanese and I am looking for a word list that has the 1000 most frequently spoken Japanese words. I have tried searching for it myself but all of the lists that I find online do not give any information on how the list was compiled. I would like one that gives a source so that I know I am learning useful vocabulary. When I learned Chinese I used a list that was compiled from the most common words spoken on television and it was extremely useful. Does anyone know of a list in Japanese that was compiled from spoken language? If not one from newspapers would probably be second best.
Yes, I am looking for something like this but that says where they got the information from. I first tried to learn Chinese with the same website’s Chinese list and the list for Chinese was completely inaccurate. This is why I am skeptical of lists that don’t provide sources. Thanks though.
Thank you so much this is what I was looking for and more! I don’t even need to spend hours making anki cards since I can just use the site. So far learning Japanese has way more resources than mandarin ever did and I appreciate it.
Until recently I was using a list which I think was created from words found in newspapers. And over the months there were many ranking that made no sense. Words I came across often were ranked 60K+
Recently I switched to a list created from all the subtitles in netflix, alongside a list created from novels, and I can already see a big difference in the rankings.
Well my lists aren’t just text files, they are .json files that have been made to be used with a particular anki add-on, the MIA dictionary. Sure you can read through them but they are just huge lists of around 200,000 words.
I do have one for use with Yomichan, which I use while using yomichan on netflix, books and website. So if you do use Yomichan I can link you to that.
