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Ilana profile picture IlanaMarch 2022

(American English) Corrections (offered because I see this error frequently):

How long have you been learning English?

I have been learning English for 10 years.

While not incorrect, I would probably say studying, rather than learning. Carry on!

  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgMarch 2022
    This is a very poor description given in that link and does not really illuminate for me American usage of ”learn” verses ”study”. I would even describe what is written in this link:

    https://www.myhappyenglish.com/free-english-lesson/2020/11/13/learn-vs-study/

    as the sort of garbage written by someone trying to bluff potential paying students as being an ”English teaching expert” when what they really have to offer is unstructured speaking practice with a native speaker for payment - or selling shoddy language learning materials.

    The examples he gives are poor illustrations differentiating ”study” and ”learn” - even by his own definitions. In just about every example, you can swap out ”learn” and ”study” and still have something ”logical” by his definitions. More on his haphazardly defined meanings of words later.

    One particular fun example sentence he gives is:

    ”I learned about Ben Franklyn in elementary school.” (I guess he is trying to refer to the well-known American polymath ”Benjamin Franklin” here....)

    The word ”learned” could be replaced by ”studied” in this instance. It’s hard to differentiate whether ”I” went through the ”process” - his definition - of acquiring information about ”Ben Franklyn” in elementary school or to use ”learn” because ”I” has become a world-leading expert on the wide field associated with the study of ”Ben Franklyn”. After all, according to him - ”And, since learning refers to complete understanding,...”. Impressive that such doctoral-level knowledge can be acquired in the elementary school system....

    The wider quotes about defining ”learn” are very illustrative:

    ”Learn is what happens as a result of studying or experience. When you learn something, you have it in your head forever.”

    followed by

    ”Learning is the result of studying or experiencing something. And, since learning refers to complete understanding, we don’t usually use learn when we talk about wide fields of knowledge:”

    So he first goes from ”result of studying or experience” then we arrive at ”since learning refers to complete understanding”. How the hell does he come to that? A result of studying or experience doesn’t necessarily lead to complete understanding but is still learning! Most students I’ve ever had at a level of B2 (upper intermediate) or above would never have written such disjointed garbage as in that link!

    If the author of this link genuinely wishes to explain a word like ”study” in American English, he might try actually looking up the definitions of ”study” and ”learn” in an American English dictionary such as Merriam-Webster then going from there...

    Perhaps the business associated with the link should change its name from ”Happy English” to ”Crappy English”
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgMarch 2022
    (British) English -

    ”learning” is the better option to describe the general acquisition of knowledge about a topic. It could be in a course or informally such as practising with friends or your own efforts reading grammatical texts and so on.

    ”studying” - knowledge got formally such as in a formal course with a teacher/instructor and student(s).

    ”learning” would be the better option if using British, Australia and, I suspect, Indian English.

JuliaUK profile picture JuliaUKMarch 2022
I’m learning English during 10 years
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgMarch 2022
    ”I’ve been learning English for 10 years”.

    ”I’ve” = ”I have”. It’s normal to contract like that in spoken or informal written language.