Watching swimming: races, records and championships
Swimming is one of Japan's big Olympic sports, and races are short enough to watch over breakfast. This lesson gives you the events, the rounds and the words for times and records, so you can follow a race and talk about it. Tap to hear any line. The bar at the bottom plays a hands-free drill for walking.
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25 words for watching
Each card shows a word and a line you'd hear from a commentator or say in front of the TV. Seven reuse words from Everyday Japanese 1–7 and Lessons 1–2.
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Events, rounds and records
The strokes from Lesson 2 are also the names of the events. Freestyle is its own name.
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- Watch lane 4. In a final, goes to the fastest swimmer from the earlier round, so the favourites are in the middle.
- Saying times. 12: minutes and seconds, then the hundredths as a plain number.
- A famous name. won the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at two Olympics, in 2004 and 2008.
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Three patterns to use today
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Say it in Japanese
Say each one out loud before you reveal the answer. Getting close counts.