I found an American girl who speaks amazingly natural Japanese.  Her name is KYARORIN, she seems to live in Chicago now.

I happened to find her video on YouTube, and I got amazed !

She says she learns Japanese for herself and she’s never studied Japanese at school. To be honest, only a little bit English speaker’s accent could be recognized in her conversation, but it’s only a small thing and very hard to identify.  If we don’t know anything about her, we would think she had been born in Japan and at least she stayed for a while in Japan until she begins speaking some.  To sum up, she speaks almost naturally !

Also she talks to the lens ! She doesn’t look at any scripts, in addition, she uses dialect of western Japan very naturally.  Teenager’s spoken words are also coming from her mouth, which amazed me again.

She continued she enjoys OWARAI or Japanese comedian talks. It’s really unbelievable ! Japanese OWARAI talks is really fast and so much side meaning is hidden in the talks, so watchers of OWARAI need to catch up with the talks first and they have to find the hidden “laughable meaning” behind the rapidly spoken words right away. That’s more than a simultaneous understanding, it more like a person always living in Japanese life. Otherwise, it’s not possible to laugh at comedians talks.

She says she’s learned Japanese for 5 years.  I’ve rarely seen a foreigner who mastered up to this level in such a short time.

In the end, sha says the motive for Japanese lesson for her is that she saw Morning Musume, a Japanese idol girl group. OK, I understand the reason, but it’s really hard for me to see why she made such a progress.

I learned English because I wanted to know Beatles more.  Is it the same kind of reason as she has ?

Below are the Morning Musume’s video and Kyarorin.  She updates her blog in Japanese too.