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First, thanks for helping me immeasurably with my Japanese studies and coming up with countless ideas and tweaks to help make learning Japanese more fun and productive. I can't really express how much you guys have helped me. So, yeah, thanks.

Anyways, before I get too teary-eyed, lemme get to my point. I want to assemble a massive collection of videos of non-natives speaking fluent Japanese. After seeing the "Americans Fluent in Japanese" thread (http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5187), I wanted to see different non-natives speaking at the same level. I find it to be great motivation, and I'm sure others wouldn't mind the motivation either.

So I'll put in my first submission, デーブ・スペクター (Dave Specter), one my favorites and someone really amazing at Japanese.

On that note, check this out...

the epic lolz start at about 1:10

Why?

LOL. didn't expect that

I like this thread. Watching non-Japanese people speak Japanese is one of my hobbies actually.

I actually have a massive collection of videos:

Foreigners living in Japan arguing about something

The black guy practically grew up in Japan. The white guy moved there when he was an adult.

White guy。 He is much better than applemilk

http://www.youtube.com/user/nothingeverlasts
He is currently an English teacher in Japan. He is the lead singer in a band with Japanese people. There are lots of videos on his youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/boeken
Black guy in America with really good Japanese.

http://www.youtube.com/user/roruchan2
German guy who used to live in Japan. He has a lot of interesting videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ilovebraziljapan
A Japanese girl born and raised in Brazil. She came to Japan when she was 16.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kerokerorin813
Caroline. I'm sure most of you guys already know her. I think she is the best of those "I speak Japanese" videos on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/junbariiPeKa...rTzylkyfU4
A white guy in Japanese who plays Pachinko. He's Japanese is really good plus his accent is really cool.

Canadians born and raised in Hiroshima. It's kind of wrong to call them Canadians as they are completely Japanese.

Nigerians living in Japan. They are on a comedy show.

http://www.kyotomike.com/
White guy born and raised in Kyoto.

A band consisting of two Canadian brothers and Japanese people.
They have released some very good sings. This is one of them.

I have no idea who this white girl is but she is too cute.

A show in Japan where young Japanese girls talk about love related topics. On this segment, they had a "gaijin version". This is a really cool video because you get to see people from different countries speaking good Japanese.

Here is another video:

A guy from Iceland on a Japanese show.

People from Poland speaking really good Japanese on a tv show.

White who has lived in Japan for over 10 years now.

A white guy who is starring in a movie based on a popular manga called "ダーリンは外国人".

http://www.youtube.com/user/kanemoto579
White guy who has been living in Japan for a couple of years. She is also married to a Japanese guy.

A bunch of gaijins on a tv show.

http://www.youtube.com/user/elenarsensei
A white guy who is an English teacher in Japan.

http://video.japanesejunction.com/videos/2649/
A show where they interview gaijins on the street.

A bunch of gaijins who are attending a university in Japan. Most of them are MEXT recipients. The interesting thing is, some of those people speak broken Japanese but are attending a Japanese university.

I posted a lot of links but there is more. This are basically the ones I added to my favorites. I hope you all get some kind of motivation from this.

Damn. Some of the people on these videos have good japanese accents. If i was just listening to japanese audio from them i wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Just goes to show you that anyone can learn japanese if they have the interest and the drive too