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r/LearnJapanese

Learn Japanese. Welcome to r/LearnJapanese, *the* hub on Reddit for learners of the Japanese Language. Founded 2009 · 872.1K members

875.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.8K upvotes, which works out to 10 per 1,000 members.

10peak upvotes per 1,000 members
875.3Kmembers
8.8Kbest post
359most comments
536posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

59% 25% 10%
Text 59% Question 25% Image 10% Gallery 4% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 144 Resources 90 Studying 86 Practice 29 Kanji/Kana 26 Grammar 21 Vocab 17 WKND Meme 14 Self Advertisement 12 Speaking 11

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

This is the true experience of learning Japanese

↑ 8.8K 💬 328 image 2026

“I passed N1 without ever studying grammar!”

↑ 3.5K 💬 188 image 2026

N1: somehow I made it.. :]

↑ 2.4K 💬 206 image 2026

I am once again creating mnemonic memes

↑ 1.6K 💬 76 image 2026

The many ways to "wear" something

↑ 1.5K 💬 142 gallery 2026

Zero to N1 in 5 years: Literally everything I did or used

↑ 1.4K 💬 179 text 2026

Yay 😊 I finished my first book!

↑ 1.3K 💬 79 image 2026

I passed the JLPT N1 (progress report + great resources)

↑ 1.3K 💬 57 image 2026

[N1 Passed] 147/180 with a Perfect Vocab Score. How Visual Novels & Aggressive Anki Got Me Here in 3 Years

↑ 1.3K 💬 227 image 2026

5 months later, I’m realizing how important “fun” is when learning Japanese

↑ 1.1K 💬 87 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/LearnJapanese, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/LearnJapanese?
r/LearnJapanese ("Learn Japanese") describes itself this way: Welcome to r/LearnJapanese, *the* hub on Reddit for learners of the Japanese Language. It was founded in 2009 and has 872.1K members.
How many members does r/LearnJapanese have?
r/LearnJapanese has about 875.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 536 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.8K upvotes, which is 10 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/LearnJapanese?
"This is the true experience of learning Japanese" reached 8.8K upvotes and 328 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/LearnJapanese.
What subreddits are similar to r/LearnJapanese?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois.
What kind of posts do best on r/LearnJapanese?
Of the posts we hold, 59% are text posts and 25% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/LearnJapanese?
Across 536 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 04:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 23:00 UTC (948 avg upvotes), Thursday at 07:00 UTC (603 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/LearnJapanese?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/LearnJapanese has 830 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 151 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/LearnJapanese, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.