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For full context, see these two documents. Its at page 1, bottom of the page
exercise 2, number 1:
<https://www.docdroid.net/gMfeMMP/img-20170823-0002-new.pdf>

先生に水泳をやってみたらって勧められたんです。 => the problem is みたら. I expect って to be a quotation
particle/marker. I would translate the whole sentence as follows: “I was
advised/encouraged by my teacher wether/if I had tried swimming.”

This interpretation is highly speculative in my eyes, but I can’t come up with
something else right now. I think “みたら“ , which expresses this „trying X“
here, is in context of an unreal expression. „…たら…sentence with た-form
predicative“. However, I feel very unsure about this. First, I have no idea
what the omitted second part of this construction should look like. Second, たら
already perfectly expresses „if“, which also works perfectly well in my
translation. Therefore, it feels wrong to make things more complicated than
they are. That said, the problem is that, at least in my eyes, this is not the
archetypical conditional „if“. It is more like “wether” which I also displayed
in my translation. I don’t know how this kind of clause would be called, or if
it is it’s own class of clause at all. However, I’ve never learnt about this
kind of use being applied to たら in japanese. If it is the same with たら in
japanese as with „if“ in english as I lined out before, then please tell me ^^
If I’m utterly at fault though with the solution above, please point me in the
right direction xD
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How is this たら used in this sentence?
やってみたら is often used to give the implication that you should do something and
try it out, i.e some form of "Why don't you go ahead and give it a go?"※.

In this case it means "I was encouraged/prodded by the teacher who asked me to
try and give swimming a go".

※ Based on my years of learning Japanese, I feel like it has a nuance of
"what's the worst that could happen" but that could just be me imagining it.
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