Anna Shcherbakova

[karina17]

As someone whose family doesn’t speak English natively, I’m happy as long as people at least TRY to pronounce names correctly. I don’t mind at all when people butcher my name as long as it’s not on purpose. (Karina is easy for most, but I have more than one name and people struggle with the second).

But if you can’t even bother to learn someone’s name, or worse yet, you’re aware of the pronunciation and yet you butcher it on purpose, that’s really rude and quite demeaning. I sighed out loud when one channel (I believe it was NBC, but I could be wrong) was told repeatedly that “Chang” in “Pyeongchang” was pronounced “ChAHng” and not “ChEHng”, but stated that they were going to keep the second pronunciation because it “sounded cleaner”. That was outright disrespectful because they were perfectly capable of saying it correctly, but chose not to because they believed that their incorrect pronunciation was superior.

 

[karina17]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmygo9Fj7tW/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=b10ia9hcf8ul

On a lighter note, hany_bany_ on Instagram posted a clip from Anna’s practice!

Edit: Oh my days, I JUST realised that was a 4Lz-3T-3Lo. :shocked:

Another edit: If you look at the Instagram story of hany_bany_, you’ll also see Anna doing a 3F (rippon) while rehearsing her SP, and a 3Lz-3T (rippon). Glad that she seems to be doing great! Go Anna!

 

[tars]

As someone whose family doesn’t speak English natively, I’m happy as long as people at least TRY to pronounce names correctly. I don’t mind at all when people butcher my name as long as it’s not on purpose. (Karina is easy for most, but I have more than one name and people struggle with the second).

But if you can’t even bother to learn someone’s name, or worse yet, you’re aware of the pronunciation and yet you butcher it on purpose, that’s really rude and quite demeaning. I sighed out loud when one channel (I believe it was NBC, but I could be wrong) was told repeatedly that “Chang” in “Pyeongchang” was pronounced “ChAHng” and not “ChEHng”, but stated that they were going to keep the second pronunciation because it “sounded cleaner”. That was outright disrespectful because they were perfectly capable of saying it correctly, but chose not to because they believed that their incorrect pronunciation was superior.

That's exactly how I feel: please, just try. I'm pretty sure 99% of people would fully symphatize and help to speak out their names.
It's the lazy and disrespectful people, who simply don't care ("... or whatever her name is") should be stood up to.

 

[dante]

it takes a couple of minutes to watch a Russian competition video to hear their name announced.

It's even easier: translate the name to Russian with Google Translate and click the speaker button. Its Russian pronunciation is perfect.

I struggled for a while but then realized that actually, Shch just is to Sh what ä is to a or ü is to u. Now I think my Shch is somewhat respectable.

This kind of linguistic Zen can only be found in a genuine revelation.

I doubt I'd be able to get the 'shch' sound quite right.

It's pronounced as in "Chicago".

I can get it basically right in Mikhail if I concentrate, but there's a Russian tennis player named Karen Khachanov and I found that sound really hard to get at the beginning of the word.

If you replace each 'kh' with 'h', it will still sound adequate.

 

[Yasmina1996]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmygo9Fj7tW/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=b10ia9hcf8ul

On a lighter note, hany_bany_ on Instagram posted a clip from Anna’s practice!

Edit: Oh my days, I JUST realised that was a 4Lz-3T-3Lo. :shocked:

Another edit: If you look at the Instagram story of hany_bany_, you’ll also see Anna doing a 3F (rippon) while rehearsing her SP, and a 3Lz-3T (rippon). Glad that she seems to be doing great! Go Anna!

It’ so great! At first I couldn’t understand that Anna made it really again! It’s the first day of practice! But then I saw next video after photo... Crazyyyyyyyyyy!!!

 

[SnowWhite]

It's pronounced as in "Chicago".

Oh thanks, that's helpful. The website I used to learn the alphabet had a button to hear the sound, but it can be hard to replicate that in the context on the name.

If you replace each 'kh' with 'h', it will still sound adequate.

That's basically what I do, but I can definitely make the 'h' a bit harder in the middle of the word. And when I say Mikhail quickly or without thinking, I still say "Mick-hail" by accident because when I see the letters in my head that's what I want to say.

 

[Shayuki]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmygo9Fj7tW/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=b10ia9hcf8ul

On a lighter note, hany_bany_ on Instagram posted a clip from Anna’s practice!

Edit: Oh my days, I JUST realised that was a 4Lz-3T-3Lo. :shocked:

So happy to see all these successful instances of the 4Lutz. I so hope that she's going to be able to land it during the competition!

 

[tars]

Training of SP: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmyss_eDEsG/

Fell on 3Lz3Lo. hwell:

 

[atsumiri]

it's the first morning practice after a flight. Don't worry)

 

[TheBallerina]

Training of SP: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmyss_eDEsG/

Fell on 3Lz3Lo. hwell:

Every time I see Anna falling it breaks my heart All her other jumps looked solid, including the 3Lz+3T combo (https://www.instagram.com/p/BmypUvXDS_5/?taken-by=team_shcherbakova), and of course what more can I say about her 4Lz...? She's like a superhuman for me, a little and strong superhuman

 

[flanker]

Anna with slovakian skater Hana Čermáková. Check the video after picture, no need to worry...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmygo9Fj7tW/

 

[tars]

Her last quad was amazing - she glided through the air like an eagle.

https://i.imgur.com/Xh1idQk.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/AIAA42n.mp4


She went high and far, also prerotation was smaller - she was in the air before 180 degrees for sure. :thumbsup:
Eat this, KK!

 

[flanker]

I'm sorry for just a little topic:, but the debate about name pronounciation reminded me this polish commedy

 

[TheBallerina]

Her last quad was amazing - she glided through the air like an eagle.

Such a beautiful comparison Thanks for the slow-mo video, it really helps us acknowledge the beauty of her jump. Her quad is becoming better and better, with an amazing flow (like you've said, she looks like she's flying over the ice), height and so efortless (even with the new -5/+5 GOE system, it meets a great number of bullets )

 

[tars]

I'm sorry for just a little topic:, but the debate about name pronounciation reminded me this polish commedy

Yep, Russian might be tough for Westerners, but it's piece of cake next to Polish conjugation and pronunciation.

 

[flanker]

Yep, Russian might be tough for Westerners, but it's piece of cake next to Polish conjugation and pronunciation.

And czech (and slovak) language is no less problematic for them with our diacritics

 

[Fluture]

And czech (and slovak) language is no less problematic for them with our diacritics

topic: I can confirm that. I have a Czech friend who speaks German quite well and every time she speaks on the phone it‘s like Chinese. I don‘t understand a word. I would like to learn, though but I‘m busy with English, Spanish, Romanian and Latin at the moment so I‘m not going to add another language, too. I mean, theoretically I‘d like to know at least a bit of the basics in Russian but I think at the moment I don‘t have the time. Such a hard language compared to... say.. English or Spanish. Even learning Latin is easier but you don‘t have to speak or write in it so there‘s that.

Her last quad was amazing - she glided through the air like an eagle.

https://i.imgur.com/Xh1idQk.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/AIAA42n.mp4


She went high and far, also prerotation was smaller - she was in the air before 180 degrees for sure. :thumbsup:
Eat this, KK!

She is out of this world! :luv17: I have never seen a quad looking like this from a girl. Sasha has a different kind of jumping quads. Hers look all wild and very, very exciting. Anna‘s seem more controlled and it‘s kind of watching her spread her wings and literally fly. Magnificent!

And about the second comment: Watch KK‘s next move, I‘m sure your comment will be in the video with a “legit“ footage of how wrong and awful and prerotated and flutzed Anna‘s quad is. Don‘t take this weirdo seriously. They always find something to nag about.

 

[tars]

I think, apart from Cyrillic writing, Russian is probably the easiest Slavic language to learn by Westerners.
The way they create sentences is very simplified, a bit similar to English.

 

[Amef]

Good luck to Anna! I hope I will be able to watch her skate via the livestream and see her magnificent SP again! You‘ll rock it, Anna!

Same!!! I'm contemplating whether I should wake up at midnight just to see her skate [emoji23]

 

[flanker]

And, as I'm NOT flatearthist, for me ladies SP stream starts at 16:45