Yuzuru Hanyu: 2014-15 Season

[hamaguri]

The description of the TV show says it is about his old coach and the training videos are old training videos. Probably nothing recent.

Thank you

 

[alia jackson]

A fan has compiled some of Yuzu's English interviews. I give Yuzu +3million GOE for effort. His English has definitely improved .


I wish this section from 1:25min to 2:17min of the Shanghai Worlds CCTV interview was included as well. Love Yuzu's answers to "Who are your biggest competitors" and "Your goal for this competition"

By the way is he speaking with Canadian accent ?

 

[daphenaxa]

awww yeah Yuzu improved a lot
I think he has north American accent on certain words like "better" "today" or "competition" but other than that maybe more Japanese accent.

 

[Lysambre]

Yuzu will be doing his skater whole program including the quads by the rink side

Ahahahah, this I want to see

 

[Pika]

Hi guys, it looks like I'm still alive !! Thank you all for the warm support

I LOVE listening to Yuzu speaking english first because I understand (lol!) and because he's soooooo cute. Thanks aliajackson for sharing the compilation ! I love when he says "I'm happy , but I have to do more practice... And I will be more happy!", watching all the interviews, it seems like it's his favourite word
And I remember seeing the interview with french tv I was like... "You stupid thing! Why don't you translate later ? You're gonna lose him! Silly journalist!" Fortunately he dealt with this well lol

 

[xibsuarz]

It's so nice seeing how his English has improved thoughout the years. But I wonder, does he take actual English classes or he just gets better from what he hears when he's in Canada?

 

[Terrapin]

It's so nice seeing how his English has improved thoughout the years. But I wonder, does he take actual English classes or he just gets better from what he hears when he's in Canada?

How cuter can he get when he speaks English?

I think both: he must take online classes and I remember hearing in an interview that he was practicing English via an app on his phone (well I still don't know whether he has a phone of his own or not but that's what it said).
But the best way to learn a language is definitely to be in the country where you speak and hear it on a daily basis.

 

[Lysambre]

Hi guys, it looks like I'm still alive !! Thank you all for the warm support

I LOVE listening to Yuzu speaking english first because I understand (lol!) and because he's soooooo cute. Thanks aliajackson for sharing the compilation ! I love when he says "I'm happy , but I have to do more practice... And I will be more happy!", watching all the interviews, it seems like it's his favourite word
And I remember seeing the interview with french tv I was like... "You stupid thing! Why don't you translate later ? You're gonna lose him! Silly journalist!" Fortunately he dealt with this well lol

Welcome back (and alive too!), hope everything went well.

Oh, last time I saw Nelson Monfort interview Yuzuru, I kept thinking the same. On the one hand, I can understand why he translates as they are talking, on the other hand, it does feel like he's going to lose him (but my mom, who doesn't understand english, always tells me she likes it better that way, or she'd feel lost in the interview). Good thing Yuzu is patient with journalists who need to translate.

 

[Plumededragon]

Hi guys, it looks like I'm still alive !! Thank you all for the warm support

I LOVE listening to Yuzu speaking english first because I understand (lol!) and because he's soooooo cute. Thanks aliajackson for sharing the compilation ! I love when he says "I'm happy , but I have to do more practice... And I will be more happy!", watching all the interviews, it seems like it's his favourite word
And I remember seeing the interview with french tv I was like... "You stupid thing! Why don't you translate later ? You're gonna lose him! Silly journalist!" Fortunately he dealt with this well lol

Welcome back! I hope everything went well!^^

Haha, well, you know Nelson: he has always been like that. Yuzuru is probably used to foreign journalists like him, who prefer to translate live. Still, he's patient enough. Nelson is not a bad guy but can be quite a headache at times, lol!

How cuter can he get when he speaks English?

I think both: he must take online classes and I remember hearing in an interview that he was practicing English via an app on his phone (well I still don't know whether he has a phone of his own or not but that's what it said).
But the best way to learn a language is definitely to be in the country where you speak and hear it on a daily basis.

I totally agree. I've been a year aboard for my studies, and it helped me a lot. It helped Yuzu too. Beside, even if Yuzuru is still struggling at speaking, he shows he doesn't have trouble understanding journalists speaking English. Beside, Shoma said that Yuzuru helped him at GPF because he doesn't understand English. That shows he tries as much as he can.

 

[Terrapin]

Welcome back! I hope everything went well!^^

Haha, well, you know Nelson: he has always been like that. Yuzuru is probably used to foreign journalists like him, who prefer to translate live. Still, he's patient enough. Nelson is not a bad guy but can be quite a headache at times, lol!


I totally agree. I've been a year aboard for my studies, and it helped me a lot. It helped Yuzu too. Beside, even if Yuzuru is still struggling at speaking, he shows he doesn't have trouble understanding journalists speaking English. Beside, Shoma said that Yuzuru helped him at GPF because he doesn't understand English. That shows he tries as much as he can.

The same for me. I became fluent in English when I went to live in the UK.

And yes he definitely improved in his understanding of English: he seems to understand all accents now. Expressing himself is still hard (pronunciation is a real nightmare for Japanese people and the sentence structures is very different from English so it's quite understandable) but he is able to make longer sentences and seems to have more vocabulary (although 'happy' is still at the top of the list ^^).

 

[xibsuarz]

I totally agree. I've been a year aboard for my studies, and it helped me a lot. It helped Yuzu too. Beside, even if Yuzuru is still struggling at speaking, he shows he doesn't have trouble understanding journalists speaking English. Beside, Shoma said that Yuzuru helped him at GPF because he doesn't understand English. That shows he tries as much as he can.

His English understanding is really something. Even when the journalists are not native English speakers and have an accent he gets their questions just fine

 

[Lysambre]

I totally agree. I've been a year aboard for my studies, and it helped me a lot. It helped Yuzu too. Beside, even if Yuzuru is still struggling at speaking, he shows he doesn't have trouble understanding journalists speaking English. Beside, Shoma said that Yuzuru helped him at GPF because he doesn't understand English. That shows he tries as much as he can.

I've lived 5 years in the UK, and at the end of those five years, I still hated having to speak English on the phone (because I'm one of these people who lip read a lot). I can only imagine having to answer unprepared TV interview questions, and I'm quite sure, that even today I'd still manage to speak more Frenglish than anything else :shocked:. ("Sorry Nelson, can you repeat the question... yes, a 12th time )

Also, Japanese is so far removed from any European language, it's a lot harder not only to learn English, but to add the difficulty for all the sounds that don't even exist in Japanese (because IMO, that's one of the super good point of Japanese : it only has very easy sounds to pronounce.)

Totally agree on the fact that he seems to understand very well. Speaking is always the hardest part with foreign languages

 

[Plumededragon]

I've lived 5 years in the UK, and at the end of those five years, I still hated having to speak English on the phone (because I'm one of these people who lip read a lot). I can only imagine having to answer unprepared TV interview questions, and I'm quite sure, that even today I'd still manage to speak more Frenglish than anything else :shocked:. ("Sorry Nelson, can you repeat the question... yes, a 12th time )

Also, Japanese is so far removed from any European language, it's a lot harder not only to learn English, but to add the difficulty for all the sounds that don't even exist in Japanese (because IMO, that's one of the super good point of Japanese : it only has very easy sounds to pronounce.)

Totally agree on the fact that he seems to understand very well. Speaking is always the hardest part with foreign languages

Well, I still speak English with a French accent, and I don't like talking English over the phone. In my past work, I even had to speak English on phone with none-English natives who had terrible accents. So I know how it feels, lol!
All the sounds in the Japanese language are in the French one, so yes, I agree, it's easy to pronounce. :yes: Just the French accent quite hard to remove, I never managed to, lol!
Ah, if only speaking a foreign language wasn't more difficult than understanding it... but it's cute the way Yuzuru makes so many "faces" when he tries to find his words in English. I don't think the kid will loose his "baby/porcelain doll face" before he hits 25...

 

[Hanmgse]

Hi guys, it looks like I'm still alive !! Thank you all for the warm support

I LOVE listening to Yuzu speaking english first because I understand (lol!) and because he's soooooo cute. Thanks aliajackson for sharing the compilation ! I love when he says "I'm happy , but I have to do more practice... And I will be more happy!", watching all the interviews, it seems like it's his favourite word
And I remember seeing the interview with french tv I was like... "You stupid thing! Why don't you translate later ? You're gonna lose him! Silly journalist!" Fortunately he dealt with this well lol

I'm glad you are alive That interview was very funny to watch lol

 

[ahkeekee]

His English understanding is really something. Even when the journalists are not native English speakers and have an accent he gets their questions just fine

Thats probably because he's been communicating a lot with javi? javi has a strong accent too....

 

[xibsuarz]

Thats probably because he's been communicating a lot with javi? javi has a strong accent too....

Yeah that could be a factor, the TCC has skaters from all over the world (Spain, Korea, Kazahkstan, etc) and they all have different accents, so he may already be used to deal with all sorts of pronunciation

 

[hamaguri]

Hi guys, it looks like I'm still alive !! Thank you all for the warm support

Welcome back Pika-Alva!

 

[hamaguri]

Thats probably because he's been communicating a lot with javi? javi has a strong accent too....

Yeah that could be a factor, the TCC has skaters from all over the world (Spain, Korea, Kazahkstan, etc) and they all have different accents, so he may already be used to deal with all sorts of pronunciation

That’s why he understood what the Spanish ice dancer was saying at that GPF 2014 interview. She seemed to have the strong accent, and in my memory, it was the first time he had an English interview in front of the audience (and it was on the air!). In addition, it was all of a sudden! But he could manage the difficult situation well. If I were in his shoes, I would definitely go into panic mode!

 

[hamaguri]

Someone has made a decent video about how to identify the jumps: https://youtu.be/BBHa4KgJk3E
They use Yuzuru, Wagner and other skater jumps, but mostly Yuzuru.

This video is of great help . Thank you! What’s more, it includes validity of yuzu jumps. Every jump is impressive and memorable for me. I feel how he put his energy into it and how many times he have practiced to achieve such jumps. His jump really is a drop from heaven like Kurt said.

 

[ahkeekee]

That’s why he understood the Spanish ice dancer saying at that GPF 2014 interview. She seemed to have the strong accent, and in my memory, it was the first time he had an English interview in front of the audience (and it was on the air!). In addition, it was all of a sudden! But he could manage the difficult situation well. If I were in his shoes, I would definitely go into panic mode!

Yea, compared with his performance here , he managed the situation much better despite being overwhelmed lols