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About me

Takako Toda is a professor for the Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics at Waseda University in Tokyo. She received her B.A. with First Class Honors in linguistics from the Australian National University. After her Ph.D. she returned to Japan and lectured at the University of Tsukuba before entering Waseda University as a faculty member in 2000. Professor Toda has published many papers on Japanese language education, phonetics and phonology, as well as three popular textbooks on Japanese pronunciation. In addition to Japanese, Professor Toda is proficient in English and Chinese.