Yuzuru Hanyu: 2016-17 Season | Page 1197 | Golden Skate

Yuzuru Hanyu: 2016-17 Season

Status
Not open for further replies.
If he had spoken Spanish I would have imploded


Now I feel like it's my duty to carry a
giant banner to Skate Canada that says "MEXICO LOVES YOU TOO, YUZU!" in Japanese 😭
This month cannot get better for me 💖💖💖💖

If he doesn't go to SC that might look a bit silly :) but in a good way, I mean!!
 
If you do that, I'll join you. That video killed me!!!

I can't believe he acknowledged us! It was so cute how he kept repeating "Mexico, Mexico, Mexico" before the video aaaah. And his english sounded so natural!
[This message was brought to you by Hydro's keyboard. Hydro is still not able to function properly]
 
I can't believe he acknowledged us! It was so cute how he kept repeating "Mexico, Mexico, Mexico" before the video aaaah. And his english sounded so natural!
[This message was brought to you by Hydro's keyboard. Hydro is still not able to function properly]
Hydro's keyboard, never mind Yuzu, you're quite possibly the inanimate object with the best English I've seen :laugh: But yes, it sounded great! Honestly, sometimes his English surprises me, especially considering he could barely speak a few words some years ago. I can't imagine that as a world-class athlete he has a lot of time to practice it.
 
Hydro's keyboard, never mind Yuzu, you're quite possibly the inanimate object with the best English I've seen :laugh: But yes, it sounded great! Honestly, sometimes his English surprises me, especially considering he could barely speak a few words some years ago. I can't imagine that as a world-class athlete he has a lot of time to practice it.
What surprises me the most is the fact that he begins to pronounce dental fricatives (th sounds) like you're supposed to pronounce them. The interview with SVT was also really good :D
Mexican fans, if he goes to Skate Canada please join me in delivering the love from Mexico to Yuzuru <3
ETA: What other countries have received a direct "I love you" from Yuzuru? :D
 
Last edited:
What surprises me the most is the fact that he begins to pronounce dental fricatives (th sounds) like you're supposed to pronounce them.

Wow, I just googled this, how interesting. English just has to be weird, doesn't it. Yes, I press the tip of my tongue to the back of my teeth without thinking about it. Can't roll my R's though, and I'm sure many other things. Are you a linguist?
 
Wow, I just googled this, how interesting. English just has to be weird, doesn't it. Yes, I press the tip of my tongue to the back of my teeth without thinking about it. Can't roll my R's though, and I'm sure many other things. Are you a linguist?
A lot of languages have it, but what's surprising is that Yuzu can do it because Japanese doesn't. Generally, beginning ESL Japanese people will say something more like a "z." His accent's getting pretty decent lately. It's a really hard thing to improve, you have to learn how to move your tongue properly, and how easy it is depends on your first language. I learned this the hard way when I tried learning Korean. I still can't hear the difference between some consonants no matter how hard I try because they don't exist in Spanish... I have mad respect for people who have a good accent when speaking a foreign language completely unlike their native one...

YuzusHydroblade, seriously, what is up with this, are you also as obsessed with languages as I am? At the moment I'm taking Italian and Korean, and as I mentioned before I took Japanese a few years ago :laugh: Should've majored in linguistics, not CS haha.
 
Wow, I just googled this, how interesting. English just has to be weird, doesn't it. Yes, I press the tip of my tongue to the back of my teeth without thinking about it. Can't roll my R's though, and I'm sure many other things. Are you a linguist?
Ha ha, I'm probably the farthest you can be from a linguist :P I'm a computer engineer but I really like to study languages haha
I've been wanting to go to to SC for two years...somehow I always have exams coming up that weekend. But if you go, send him all of our love! :love:
Owwww :( ok! I will send him all my love 💖 pray to the skating gods that he goes to SC
 
A lot of languages have it, but what's surprising is that Yuzu can do it because Japanese doesn't. Generally, beginning ESL Japanese people will say something more like a "z." His accent's getting pretty decent lately. It's a really hard thing to improve, you have to learn how to move your tongue properly, and how easy it is depends on your first language. I learned this the hard way when I tried learning Korean. I still can't hear the difference between some consonants no matter how hard I try because they don't exist in Spanish... I have mad respect for people who have a good accent when speaking a foreign language completely unlike their native one...

YuzusHydroblade, seriously, what is up with this, are you also as obsessed with languages as I am? At the moment I'm taking Italian and Korean, and as I mentioned before I took Japanese a few years ago :laugh: Should've majored in linguistics, not CS haha.
I am :P learning Japanese on my own for 16 years now until I finally got the motivation (also known as Yuzuru) to formally take lessons, and I've been studying Danish, swedish, German and Finnish on my own :P
(I want to give Russian a shot too​)
 
I am :P learning Japanese on my own for 16 years now until I finally got the motivation (also known as Yuzuru) to formally take lessons, and I've been studying Danish, swedish, German and Finnish on my own :P
(I want to give Russian a shot too​)
Oh, right, you mentioned that, did you pass the test to get into the higher level? Wow, nice, I haven't touched any of those, I confess to knowing nothing about them, other than basic grammar for German. Mostly I've been sticking to the romance ones plus Japanese and Korean. Not nearly for that long, though (other than English, 17 years now, I think?). Japanese I've been studying for 5, Korean for 2, and Italian for a few months. The depressing thing is that a few months of Italian were enough to speak it much better than I do Korean... I can read novels in Italian after a semester and a half, but I can't even understand some YouTube comments in Korean :laugh:
 
YuzusHydroblade, seriously, what is up with this, are you also as obsessed with languages as I am? At the moment I'm taking Italian and Korean, and as I mentioned before I took Japanese a few years ago :laugh: Should've majored in linguistics, not CS haha.

I am :P learning Japanese on my own for 16 years now until I finally got the motivation (also known as Yuzuru) to formally take lessons, and I've been studying Danish, swedish, German and Finnish on my own :P
(I want to give Russian a shot too​)

Wow, noticing a pattern that CS students have a liking for languages. Kinda makes sense then that yuzuru might develop an interest given his area of study.
On a related note, I'm trying to figure out how much Korean I would need to learn to not be totally out of my depth in Pyeongchang, can anybody offer any tips?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top