Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the teacher Shizuka Usuhara, who ignores his last-minute hesitation and enrolls him.
Japanese study overview
Hai, Oyogemasen is a Japanese movie of 14,349 characters, with 1,376 unique words and 623 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,376 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 泳ぐto swim×72
- 小鳥遊Takanashi×62
- 僕I×51
- 先生teacher×45
- 智也Satoshi×43
- 私I×33
- 水water (esp. cool or cold)×32
- 伸ばすto grow long (e.g. hair, nails)×25
- 言うto say×23
- 雄male (animal, plant)×19
- 人person×18
- 君Mr×18
- 順也Jun'ya×18
- 奈美恵Namie×10
- 静香Sayaka×10
- 中心線centre line×8
- 美弥子Mineko×7
- 完済full payment×5
- 日暮twilight×3
- 一等賞first prize×3