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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
To assimilate?
Dear Everyone,
I checked two thesauruses for an almost perfect, not informal equivalent of “to learn” and found that “to assimilate” is very similar. I need a synonym which includes learning things of different nature (e.g. words, grammar etc.) and which implies both the comprehending and memorizing of those things.
Is “assimilate” okay? If not, what verb is? Could you help me with this, please? Thank you!
I checked two thesauruses for an almost perfect, not informal equivalent of “to learn” and found that “to assimilate” is very similar. I need a synonym which includes learning things of different nature (e.g. words, grammar etc.) and which implies both the comprehending and memorizing of those things.
Is “assimilate” okay? If not, what verb is? Could you help me with this, please? Thank you!
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Anonymous I checked two thesauruses for an almost perfect, not informal equivalent of “to learn” and found that “to assimilate” is very similar In certain circumstances, yes, but generally not. g. ) and which implies both the comprehending and memorizing of those things.
- Anonymous I checked two thesauruses for an almost perfect, not informal equivalent of “to learn” and found that “to assimilate” is very similar In certain circumstances, yes, but generally not.
- g.
- ) and which implies both the comprehending and memorizing of those things.
- Neither 'comprehend' nor 'memorize' equate to learning; in fact, they often occur without the slightest bit of learning occurring.
- A common ESL term is 'language acquisition'.
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AnonymousI checked two thesauruses for an almost perfect, not informal equivalent of “to learn” and found that “to assimilate” is very similarIn certain circumstances, yes, but generally not.
Anonymous I need a synonym which includes learning things of different nature (e.g. words, grammar etc.) and which implies both the comprehending
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Thank you, Mister Micawber! :-) I wonder, though, if I can use “acquire” when we talk about learning a poem or a song… or the pronunciation of a word, a grammatical structure, etc.
What can I replace the verb “learn” with when I need to use a word which has this meaning a lot but I want to avoid repeating "learn" too often?
What can I replace the verb “learn” with when I need to use a word which has this meaning a lot but I want to avoid repeating "learn" too often?
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Anonymouswhen we talk about learning a poemThat one at least is 'memorize'.
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