WordStudyLearn English with Friends: season 1 vocabulary
24 episodes of Friends, counted word by word. Pick an episode to see its new words by CEFR level, or play the game to see how much of the series you'd follow.
Share of all words spoken in season 1 that a typical learner of each level knows. Names and sounds like «uh» count as known.
| Your level | Familiar words | New words per episode |
|---|---|---|
| A2 | ≈ 93% | ≈ 74 |
| B1 | ≈ 95% | ≈ 40 |
| B2 | ≈ 97% | ≈ 23 |
Game: how much of Friends will you follow?
12 words from season 1 at three levels. Pick the right meaning or press «Don't know» — guessing only lowers your score's accuracy.
Episodes of season 1
Learn these words before you watch
WordStudy imports the words of a YouTube video, a text or a photo, keeps the ones above your level and repeats them until they stick.
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Can you learn English with Friends?
Yes, if you know enough of the words: at around 95% familiar words you follow the story, below 90% you mostly read subtitles. At B1 a learner knows about 96% of the words in season 1, at B2 about 97%.
What level of English do you need for Friends?
Season 1 is everyday conversation. An upper-intermediate (B2) learner follows it comfortably; at B1 it is a good learning level, with new words in every episode; at A2 it is still hard without subtitles.
Which episodes are the easiest?
Play the game above: afterwards the easiest and hardest episodes for your level are shown first, and the episode table shows your own percentage for each one.
Word counts come from the Friends transcripts of the Emory University character-mining corpus (Apache-2.0), cross-checked against subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org; we publish only numbers and word lists, never the dialogue. Levels (A1–C2) and translations come from the WordStudy dictionary. opensubtitles.org
