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Megamind Teaches English

Mar 01, 2011 18:08

I came across this video on YouTube today. It's an advertisement for a Korean educational workbook that appears to use the Megamind junior novelization as its base, and uses the book to teach English vocabulary and grammar. Watch this video with great pleasure.

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Also, I had a hard time understanding their English, but it sounds like Megamind made ( Read more... )

discussion: linguistics, discussion: books, discussion: international

Comments 8

aurawind March 1 2011, 23:18:06 UTC

how thoughtful! This is really a very clever idea <3
Oh Korea, you awesome place sometimes, you! <3

aelibia March 2 2011, 00:05:17 UTC

Lol. "Sometimes." Yeah.

legendaryair March 2 2011, 01:38:29 UTC

Bahahaha! I loved it! DreamWorks "broke down our prejudice that animation movies are for children and immature." So cute, argjkhlkj... XD

The faces when they say "interesting storyline" (0:41) were hilarious, and the music/movie clips SO don't match the rest of the movie (why would they show him being happy and spinning in the chair while talking about being depressed? and saying "he created a new hero" during a closeup on Metro Man's face, LOL).

Also, I laughed out loud IRL for at least five minutes when the girl said, "Megamind is also a supervillain, however the least successful one." Ouch!! XD

(P.S. if you want a "translation" of any of the lines, I understood them fine, so feel free to ask. :D Thanks for posting!)

legendaryair March 2 2011, 01:39:39 UTC

Also, does anyone else wish they'd learned to read with a book that had definitions like "minion" and "escape pod" and "supervillainy" in it? I DO. o_O

animefreakkatie March 2 2011, 02:45:07 UTC

Most definitely, I wonder why we don't have things like that here? America needs to start learning to become multilingual.

animefreakkatie March 2 2011, 02:43:48 UTC

Would it be weird if I said I want this? An audio book too? Awesome.

Oh! And they actually said "kill" and not "destroy". XD

:3 a_vengeful_soul March 2 2011, 05:50:15 UTC

I understood them pretty well but since I speak alot of Japanese, Asian accents aren't too difficult for me to understand. Also that's pretty darn cool! :3 Thanks for sharing with us!

Ooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.... anonymous March 5 2011, 02:09:35 UTC

This is... okkkkkkkk... eh.