Interesting experience, somewhat related: when I was living in Korea and began to learn to read hangeul, it was fun reading the movie posters for English movies. The titles would be written in hangeul characters, but they would just be "phonetically" spelling the English titles.
"'Huu-tah Rock-ah'... Oh, Hurt Locker!" or "Guh-reen Lan-tahn" - Green Lantern.