Emiri

[Dogen Z]

窶堋ｱ窶堙固ｽq窶堙坂?堙??堙??堙?窶禿岩?昶?吮?堋｢窶堙??堋ｨ窶堙?窶堙≫?堙??F窶堙?歎ﾆ巽ﾆ但窶堋ｵ窶堋ｽ窶堋｢窶堙??堋ｷ窶堋ｯ窶堙?。ﾂ ﾂ 窶堋ｿ窶堙･窶堙≫?堙?陳ｩ窶堙??堙?窶堙ｧ窶堋｢窶堙懌?堋ｹ窶堙ｱ窶堋ｩﾂ。ﾂ ﾂ
窶堋ｩ窶堙ｭ窶堋｢窶堋｢窶堋ｶ窶堙｡窶堋?窶堙遺?堋｢窶堙??堋ｷ窶堋ｩﾂ？ﾂ ﾂ BTW, she has more videos on youtube but without subtitles. Her nihongo is pretty good, neh?

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[Dogen Z]

Emily is not the only bilingual American in Japan, there are so many. My company alone has more than I can count at the moment. I've also met one black dude from Africa and some French people who were also fluent. I even remember seeing a Bloomberg video of a foreign president of a company speaking in fluent Japanese during an interview. So fluency in Japanese is a growing trend.

I'm not sure why some people feel threatened by this. They leave nasty messages below Emily's youtube videos. My comment for them is, "Grow up, man or lady. Use the time to improve yourself rather than wasting it on showing your poor character. Ijou desu."

That said, here's video of another bilingual American, Sammi.

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[Dogen Z]

Caroline from Chicago

Here's another foreigner fluent in Japanese (sorry, no English subtitles). Her name is Caroline, and she lives in Chicago. She began studying Japanese at the age of 16, five years ago. Her command of the language as well pronounciation seems about perfect.

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[Dogen Z]

Ken Tanaka

This guy claims to be actually Japanese, and he has a plausible story and convincing accent to back it up. Some of his videos are quite funny, you should take a look at them.

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[Dogen Z]

A Gathering

There was a gathering of the personalities shown above in Kichijoji recently, and Ken Tanaka produced a video of the event
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For your viewing pleasure, here is the vid.

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[Dogen Z]

runnyrunny999

The guy in this video is runnyrunny999, who appeared briefly in the Youtube Gathering vid posted above.

Here, he shows us how to make nikkujaga, the ultimate Japanese comfort food (along with udon or curry rice or a number of other dishes). His cooking looks so simple and delicious that I'm sure you'll be tempted to make it after watching this vid.

(I thought about posting this in the food section instead of this thread, but Sammi's vid (above) was about cooking, too.)

 

[Dell_1957]

I can only say I am jealous of these people that are not Japanese and can speak Japanese, the girl from Chicago is excellent and sounds very nice. With my computer repair business I don't have alot of spare time to dedicate to learning Japanese, I have had very few Japanese people I have done pc repair and I have wondered if I have offended any of them because I don't know many customs.

 

[Half-n-Half]

I can only say I am jealous of these people that are not Japanese and can speak Japanese, the girl from Chicago is excellent and sounds very nice. With my computer repair business I don't have alot of spare time to dedicate to learning Japanese, I have had very few Japanese people I have done pc repair and I have wondered if I have offended any of them because I don't know many customs.

If you were doing your work in America I'm sure they wouldn't expect you to act outside of your cultural sphere. I've seen a couple of her Japanese language "lesson" videos. She seems to have a pretty strong command of the language but I'm no native speaker. I think her big "secret" for coming to Japan is she wanted to become an idol. It was mentioned on one of her videos where she was on a Japanese TV program.