Now that I'm on this journey of trying to learn advanced Japanese outside of my classroom, it's really given me a sense of how great the lessons were at SOAS. Many times I've been hearing about how pitch accent is not taught in classes teaching Japanese, but SOAS actually incorporated pitch accent in our first year; I just didn't know it was that important lol.

Then I hear about how universities take too long teaching textbooks and not native materials when my whole fourth year at university was dedicated to us analysing 1 or more native material almost every week. It's crazy. SOAS Japanese studies is really well-structured.

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