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How Do You Say ‘Badonkadonk’ in Chinese?

In the age of YouTube and social media, American English lessons have been taken to another level. Meet Jessica Beinecke, a Voice of America journalist who decided that she could leverage all the web 2.0 tools at her disposal to create a show that taught Chinese youth American slang. It’s shot with only a webcam and was exclusively on Chinese Youku until recently migrating to YouTube.

Beinecke went viral in China much earlier than in the U.S., having somehow struck a chord with a video about boogers that garnered 1.5 million hits. She now has posted hundreds of shows — covering everything from “badakadonk” to “chillax”. The solo effort has paid off, winning hundreds of thousands of adoring Chinese fans on Weibo and accumulating nearly 8 million total hits on the shows. Read more.

[Image: Jessica Beinecke/ YouTube]

Reblogged 1 year ago from theatlantic

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  This is amazingly entertaining! And her mandarin is better than mine, despite some pronunciation mistakes here and...
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  well of course
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  This made me want to be back in a language program like tomorrow.
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  haha… this girl = pretty impressive
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