Teach, learn, study. What's the difference? Let's find out!
Hey, what's up! And welcome to English Mania!
My name is Antonia Romaker and today we're going to compare teach, learn and study.
First of all, let's talk about the verb teach.
To teach means to give someone knowledge.
So you are the source of the knowledge and you give it to somebody else.
So you give somebody knowledge, you instruct somebody or you train somebody.
I teach Russian to foreign students.
Who taught you to cook? Your mom? Your grandmother?
My husband taught me how to drive a car.
As for the verb to learn it is actually the opposite.
So you are on the other side of the educational process.
You get knowledge or a skill in a new subject or activity.
For example, they learn Russian at school.
They learn it, somebody teaches Russian to them
and they get the information, they learn Russian.
I'm learning to drive, it is so hard, but also exciting!
Learn can also mean to make yourself remember a piece of writing
by reading and repeating it over and over again, many many times.
I wonder how actors manage to learn so many lines.
You can also say to learn by heart here.
And finally learn can also mean to find out
some new information about something.
So when you are told some facts or information that you didn't know.
I only learned about the accident recently.
I didn't know about it, I only learned about it recently.
And now let's get to the verb study.
To study means to learn a particular subject,
especially in an educational course or by reading books.
So I need to be wearing glasses for this.
So you study something, it means that you approach the subject in an academic way,
in a very proper structured way, when you read books,
when you study at school, at college, at the University and things like that.
Next term we will study nuclear physics.
She's been studying for her doctorate for more than three years already.
So she's been reading books and papers and participating in seminars,
attending lectures and things like that.
She has been studying hard by reading,
by approaching some subject academically.
Study can also mean to examine something very carefully,
when you take an article, for example, and read it really carefully and attentively.
You study it, you examine it very carefully.
I need to study this contract thoroughly before I sign it.
You should study any contract really carefully before you sign it.
And finally, study can be a noun.
But in this class, we focus mostly on the verbs: teach, learn and study.
Okay, I hope that now you are not confused about the meanings of these three verbs.
Well, teach is more or less clear. As for learn and study there is a tiny difference.
You should be careful here.
Just remember that study is all about colleges, schools, universities, reading,
when you are very serious about something.
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