Part II of the Nova English School Commercial (Video)

Back on September 30th, I shared a funny Nova commercial with you. Since then, some people have written about the commercial being potentially offensive because it makes Japanese people look stupid. Personally I think it is just trying to be silly, much like the “Japan Sinks” commercials Nova aired earlier this year. (One has to have a pretty active imagination to interpret a Japanese-produced commercial about a single air-headed Japanese girl as an insult to the Japanese people.)

About a week and a half ago Nova released the second part of the commercial, which I have recorded and uploaded to YouTube:

As you can see, her Nova lessons gave her practical skills she could use in her everyday life.

5 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - October 14, 2006 at 11:48 pm

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http://isangmundo.wordpress.com 1604

I swear to god, when that girl came back I seriously thought she was going to hit him with something she bought lol. Btw, I linked you to my wordpress, hope you don’t mind – I liked your blog so I thought’d I’d link it, if you want it down, please say so, I hope I didnt alarm you.
http://www.japanprobe.com James (admin)

Thanks for the link 1604: I’ve added you to the blogrolls on Japan Probe and Asia Watch!
http://isangmundo.wordpress.com 1604

Really? Thanks! I appreciate it alot! I’ll add Asia Watch to my blogroll too! I didnt notice you were an admin there too! Good luck with you and your blog James, keep those posts commin’
http://beppuhatto.blogspot.com Joel

I used to work for NOVA. It’s typical factory eikaiwa that charges insane amounts of money for “native” (read: unqualified) speakers. They do seem to have a good PR department, though
Mike

Hmm, so if I’m to interpret the point of this commercial, is it that it took her ages and ages to learn English at Nova?

Part II of the Nova English School Commercial (Video)

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