"I like swimming."

Translation: 私は水泳が好きです。

[SergiiPodolnyi]

Suiei in kanji for the first time? It was a pleasant surprise.

[Shinobusagi]

And 私 as well. Yay :)

[kalexchu]

They're not anymore...

[ticoakuma]

They are in kanji now.

[daadaadaaren]

how is すいえい different from およぐの

[Naomi726137]

I saw it explained in another section that oyogu would be the act of swimming and suiei is the swimming in a competition..

[PoliteSociety]

水泳 is the noun, 泳ぐ is the verb.

水泳が好きです. I like swimming (as a thing)
泳ぐのが好きです. I like to swim. (The act of swimming).

[kbreddit]

水泳 (swimming) が好き (like) です

[Yuzuling]

Is it just me or are these sentences easier than previous lessons?

[hylidae]

そうです。These are special vocab lessons and are usually designed to be unlockable at lower levels

[jessie7171]

Really?! And at what level do I need to be?

[bazanathon]

Why doesn't swimming have the の character to make it a gerund? Wouldn't this sentence be closer to 'I like swim' ?

[IsolaCiao]

水泳 (suei) is a noun that means "swimming". If you want to use the verb 泳ぐ (oyogu) then you add the の to make it a gerund.

[floomo]

The voice is not pronouncing 水泳 the way I would have thought by reading it. I would have gone for the long え at the end like you usually hear with えい.

But to me it sounds like the voice sample is really pronouncing the last い as well. Does anyone know for sure how it's supposed to be pronounced?

[regularfanb0y]

02.03.19 its still pronounced as SUI-IE not as SUI-EI.