Alina Zagitova

[lusk8]

Thank you )
Alina - Anna Karenina did not read and I will not read :shame: ))

I read it, for fun. Never a required reading at my neck of the woods. But required school reading is the fastest way to turn off people from reading books.

And thanks for all the translations on the interview.

 

[hollyho]

Alina - Anna Karenina did not read and I will not read :shame: ))

What did she mean?

 

[lusk8]

Me too! He rocks for sure. I just came across a caption that trumps "bathroom blenders" - "Christian stoppers do not grew podcast".

Oh lord!!!!! I gave up on YouTube auto generated subs, they were distracting me too much because I was just laughing too hard.

 

[hollyho]

Oh lord!!!!! I gave up on YouTube auto generated subs, they were distracting me too much because I was just laughing too hard.

I was desperate! Really wanted to know what she was saying. Thought that some help is better than no help - guess I was wrong!

Thanks to everyone here for translations. Love you guys!

 

[EdRoz]

What did she mean?

it means - she dont like to read the books ) she did not read Anna Karenina
and does not even to start reading this book

I will be honest - Anna Karenina boring book ,
War and Peace my favorite , read 4 times

 

[hollyho]

it means - she dont like to read the books ) she did not read Anna Karenina
and does not even to start reading this book

Oh boy! Hahaa... so cute. Thanks!

 

[lusk8]

I was desperate! Really wanted to know what she was saying. Thought that some help is better than no help - guess I was wrong!

Thanks to everyone here for translations. Love you guys!

I feel your pain!!

And we are so lucky to have Russian speakers willing to give is a hand (either at making some real subs or translating fresh for us on the FF). All you Russian translators, and Japanese translators and any other language...you are so generous and you rock.

 

[EdRoz]

Oh boy! Hahaa... so cute. Thanks!

But she must read books , she has small reserve of words compared to Zenja at her age ..
Julija Lipnitkaja was in 15 and is right now a speech monster , really good

 

[madison]

But she must read books , she has small reserve of words compared to Zenja at her age ..
Julija Lipnitkaja was in 15 and is right now a speech monster

And she has some exams this year, if I'm not mistaken. Are these entry exams for highschool? When are they? And at what subjects? How is the education system in Russia?

 

[lusk8]

it means - she dont like to read the books ) she did not read Anna Karenina
and does not even to start reading this book

I will be honest - Anna Karenina boring book ,
War and Peace my favorite , read 4 times

I read them both, and War and Peace is an epic book.

Tchekhov, Tolstoi, Dostoievski, Pushkin, Pasternak, you have so many great writers in Russia. And I agree with you that reading really helps your vocabulary. I'm a total book worm, but I was also happily born into an age when the highest tech you could get was an Apple II and an Atari (which I also loved by the way), so reading was a major thing and a great pastime. We can still see kids that read a lot today but I have a sad feeling this will be a rare thing.

 

[agentscullyskates]

But she must read books , she has small reserve of words compared to Zenja at her age ..
Julija Lipnitkaja was in 15 and is right now a speech monster , really good

But I do think her English is gradually improving! She's a bright girl and I'm sure she will continue to increase her fluency as she gets older.

Someone way back in the thread asked about condo prices in Toronto. So a quick Google for central Toronto prices tells me that: "In the fourth quarter of 2017, the average price of a one-bedroom unit in Toronto proper was $485,322 ... Buyers who upsized to a one-bedroom-plus-den, suite shelled out an average of $563,191 over the same period ..." All prices are in CAD.

So, I think it's safe to say that the most populous cities in all countries will often come with a steep price tag

I'm happy that Alina is banking prize money and endorsements while living comfortably in Moscow with her grandma. She's a smart kid with a good head on her shoulders.

 

[Iris81]

Maybe you remember names then, cause the info in your link is very vague as well as in other sources I google searched, never specific names except Lipnitskaya. Which is weird, it's implied in the news that all Olympic medalists are provided with aparments in Moscow, but we never heard of them or from them about that,say Bobrova or Volosozhar. We know for sure though that Katsalapov and Sotnikova are not in the lucky list which in turn raises question whether these news are really trustworthy,as these two are bronze medalist and Olympic champion.

I wonder how you can know it "for sure"? Could you provide links with their direct speech?
Afair, apartments from Moscow's government were provided to medalists not immediately after Sochi, but some time later, maybe even a year or two years later.
As for other names, i recall news about An, Demchenko(Moscow region). So, at least this statement "no other Olympic medalists have been provided with apartments from government" is not true.
Volosozhar represented Tver, so she received her gifts there.
End of offtop from my side.

 

[lusk8]

But I do think her English is gradually improving! She's a bright girl and I'm sure she will continue to increase her fluency as she gets older.

Someone way back in the thread asked about condo prices in Toronto. So a quick Google for central Toronto prices tells me that: "In the fourth quarter of 2017, the average price of a one-bedroom unit in Toronto proper was $485,322 ... Buyers who upsized to a one-bedroom-plus-den, suite shelled out an average of $563,191 over the same period ..." All prices are in CAD.

So, I think it's safe to say that the most populous cities in all countries will often come with a steep price tag

I'm happy that Alina is banking prize money and endorsements while living comfortably in Moscow with her grandma. She's a smart kid with a good head on her shoulders.

She is super smart, whenever she says something in English her pronunciation is really good and I'm not sure she even had any classes. So she must have a knack for this and given enough time and chance she will pick it up quickly. And I think she'll have plenty of more chances, because I've yet to see a competition where they don't at least repeat stuff over in English.

 

[chiaroscuro]

And she has some exams this year, if I'm not mistaken. Are these entry exams for highschool? When are they? And at what subjects? How is the education system in Russia?

Alina's finishing 9th grade, so she has to pass ОГЭ - something like General State Exam. There are two required subjects - Russian and Math, and the other two are chosen by the student himself (e.g. a foreign language, history, chemistry, etc.). The exams are obligatory for her to complete the middle school course and to enter high school.

 

[russianfan]

What about Daniil?

I have no idea it would be quite interesting to know how they distribute prize/awards money, because it's certainly not only Eteri who is working with skaters.

 

[EdRoz]

I read them both, and War and Peace is an epic book.

Tchekhov, Tolstoi, Dostoievski, Pushkin, Pasternak, you have so many great writers in Russia. And I agree with you that reading really helps your vocabulary. I'm a total book worm, but I was also happily born into an age when the highest tech you could get was an Apple II and an Atari (which I also loved by the way), so reading was a major thing and a great pastime. We can still see kids that read a lot today but I have a sad feeling this will be a rare thing.

Yes , agree .. I know , she is very busy , but ... she had to find a way to be better , read the books
in planes , during the rest , also she needs to learn English to feel more comfortable among other skaters .
In school , in 80 , I hate to teach and learn something , but I loved reading and heavy metal !!!!
In the Soviet Union it was hard to find vynil of favorite bands , we passed records to each over for a while
and when the vynil was my I had to quickly rewrite the lyrics to notebook ..it was fun )
and now I know many English words , including strange ones - Obsession , Megadeth , Overkill ))))

 

[Klarnet]

I wonder how you can know it "for sure"? Could you provide links with their direct speech?
Afair, apartments from Moscow's government were provided to medalists not immediately after Sochi, but some time later, maybe even a year or two years later.
As for other names, i recall news about An, Demchenko(Moscow region). So, at least this statement "no other Olympic medalists have been provided with apartments from government" is not true.
Volosozhar represented Tver, so she received her gifts there.
End of offtop from my side.

Moscow region is not Moscow, I should have specified my statement concerned Moscow. I'm just saying fans know a lot about skaters thanks to news, social media and even rumors, it's weird none of other medalists was spotted with regard to this matter,getting an apartment. Say presented cars are demonstrated by them freely.Unless all of them agreed to keep it a huge secret and only Lipnitskaya decided to spill all over the place
Ok,right, end of offtop.

 

[lusk8]

Yes , agree .. I know , she is very busy , but ... she had to find a way to be better , read the books
in planes , during the rest , also she needs to learn English to feel more comfortable among other skaters .
In school , in 80 , I hate to teach and learn something , but I loved reading and heavy metal !!!!
In the Soviet Union it was hard to find vynil of favorite bands , we passed records to each over for a while
and when the vynil was my I had to quickly rewrite the lyrics to notebook ..it was fun )
and now I know many English words , including strange ones - Obsession , Megadeth , Overkill ))))

Amazing to read about your experience.

And you are so right, we can find ways to be better all the time and any knowledge about something you are passionate about can be a springboard to even more knowledge. Transcribing music was a great way to learn, I remember my boyfriend was in a metal rock band and they did a lot of covers of other bans on shows, and I would transcribe lyrics for them. It was so much fun, and harder then it looked, had to go back and forth a thousand times on those records to get the exact words.

If Alina learns English she will be able to make even more friends on her skating trips, since a lot of the skaters use English as a common language (even the non-American and English-Canadian ones). She enjoys being around her peers and you can see she makes an effort to interact with them and has fun when she does, in that setting learning English can be a real game changer. I can see that it helped Zhenya a lot and she has fun and great friendships because of it.

 

[madison]

Yes , agree .. I know , she is very busy , but ... she had to find a way to be better , read the books
in planes , during the rest , also she needs to learn English to feel more comfortable among other skaters .
In school , in 80 , I hate to teach and learn something , but I loved reading and heavy metal !!!!
In the Soviet Union it was hard to find vynil of favorite bands , we passed records to each over for a while
and when the vynil was my I had to quickly rewrite the lyrics to notebook ..it was fun )
and now I know many English words , including strange ones - Obsession , Megadeth , Overkill ))))

I wonder what she will choose to do after she retires (hopefully, long time from now). What do you think would fit her?

 

[lusk8]

They are having so much fun at this ice show. Check out Misha's Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/mishage8/

Man I would want to be his friend, he is a lot of fun. This show will be epic.