Viktoriya1990
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Russian
Hello! I wonder if this collocation is correct: learn information. For example, learn the information from your notebooks. Thank you in advance!
Learn information
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entangledbank
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English - South-East England
It's not quite right. As a collocation, we get or look up or find information. It is there (somewhere), and we go and get it or look at it or read it. It doesn't quite collocate with processes like learn or study, which are more active ways of thinking - we learn facts, or learn lists of names, or learn how to do something.
Viktoriya1990
Member
Russian
Thank you very much! And if there's some information in my notebook, what can I do with it? Study?
"Study". In English, the intentional action (the thing you decide to do) is "study".
"Learn" is the hoped-for result of studying. If you know something you didn't know before, you have "learned" it. So "learn information" means moving information from "not known" to "known".
How do you do that? You study (classes, memorization, reading, etc.).
If you re-read (and think about) your notes in a notebook, before an exam, we call that:
- (in AE) reviewing your notes before the exam
- (in BE) revising your notes before the exam
"Learn" is the hoped-for result of studying. If you know something you didn't know before, you have "learned" it. So "learn information" means moving information from "not known" to "known".
How do you do that? You study (classes, memorization, reading, etc.).
If you re-read (and think about) your notes in a notebook, before an exam, we call that:
- (in AE) reviewing your notes before the exam
- (in BE) revising your notes before the exam
Viktoriya1990
Member
Russian
Now it's clear! Thanks a lot for your response!