Dictionary / Vocabulary / 師事
しじ
studying under; looking up to; apprenticing oneself to
common word
ネイティブスピーカーに一度も師事することなく大学を卒業できた外国語教師がいるなんて、嘆かわしいことだと思う。
I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.