Tsubame wa Modotte Konai

Drama·燕は戻ってこない·The Swallows Don't Come Back
Tsubame wa Modotte Konai
2024/04/30
Speech time
5h 1min
Word count28,071
Unique words
3,766
Unique kanji
1,151
Avg. sentence11.1
Speech speed
255
Difficulty Average
Episodes10
Rating
70 %

Riki, who works as a temp, is distressed when her colleague invites her to earn money by donating her eggs. However, after taking the interview, she realizes it’s not for egg donation but for surrogacy. A former ballet dancer, Kusaoke Motoi, and his wife, Yuko, are looking for a surrogate mother to bear their child in exchange for high rewards.

Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Tsubame wa Modotte Konai is a Japanese drama of 67,246 characters, with 3,766 unique words and 1,151 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,766 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
26min
Word count2,417
Unique words
794
Unique kanji
431
Avg. sentence10.4
Speech speed
251
Difficulty Average

Episode 2

Speech time
29min
Word count2,824
Unique words
885
Unique kanji
441
Avg. sentence10.3
Speech speed
256
Difficulty Average

Episode 3

Speech time
30min
Word count3,010
Unique words
951
Unique kanji
454
Avg. sentence11.6
Speech speed
280
Difficulty Average

Episode 4

Speech time
31min
Word count2,909
Unique words
914
Unique kanji
473
Avg. sentence11.6
Speech speed
254
Difficulty Average

Episode 5

Speech time
31min
Word count3,126
Unique words
930
Unique kanji
481
Avg. sentence9.9
Speech speed
259
Difficulty Average

Episode 6

Speech time
34min
Word count3,251
Unique words
909
Unique kanji
455
Avg. sentence11.6
Speech speed
263
Difficulty Average

Episode 7

Speech time
27min
Word count2,513
Unique words
842
Unique kanji
441
Avg. sentence11.4
Speech speed
257
Difficulty Average

Episode 8

Speech time
29min
Word count2,718
Unique words
809
Unique kanji
404
Avg. sentence11.4
Speech speed
247
Difficulty Average

Episode 9

Speech time
32min
Word count3,029
Unique words
903
Unique kanji
437
Avg. sentence11.7
Speech speed
252
Difficulty Average

Episode 10

Speech time
27min
Word count2,274
Unique words
715
Unique kanji
372
Avg. sentence11.8
Speech speed
225
Difficulty Average

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