The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda and its teaching.

When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.

For a Mandarin speaker, to whom and are separate phonemes, the English distinction is much more obvious than it is to the English speaker who has learned since childhood to ignore it.

Prior to Kidd returning to New York City, he learned that he was a wanted pirate, and that several English men-of-war were searching for him.

More generations of English speakers have learned about China through Wade – Giles ( proposed in 1859, revised in 1892 ) than through Pinyin ( approved in 1958, adopted in 1979 ).

To be belongs to the set of irregular verbs in English ; some individuals, especially those who have learned English as a second language, may have difficulty recognizing all its forms.

When he learned English, he realised that verb conjugations were unnecessary, and that grammatical systems could be much simpler than he had expected.

This is why the now-archaic normal school ( from the French école normale ) is so confusing to present-day English speakers ; it was a place where people received standardized training in how to teach children, not an institution where social deviants learned how to behave normally.

The English term " Gnosticism " derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos (" learned ", " intellectual ", Greek γνωστικός ) by St. Irenaeus ( c. 185 AD ) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis " the heresy called Learned ( gnostic )".

Richterman states that she asked a learned professor of English for help when she first received the inquiry, and he did not respond for over a month.

This is the situation long faced by many users of English who possess a " non-standard " dialect of English as their birth tongue but have also learned to write ( and perhaps also speak ) a more standard dialect.

He also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by Charles Dickens.

For example, most insurance policies in the English language today have been carefully drafted in plain English ; the industry learned the hard way that many courts will not enforce policies against insureds when the judges themselves cannot understand what the policies are saying.

In 1779 at age 16 he emigrated to London, where he learned English while working for his brother, George Astor, manufacturing musical instruments.

Some entire coastal tribes became Protestants and learned English.

Later he learned French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and English, and had an interest in Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian.

To evaluate the etymology of words, Webster learned twenty-six languages, including Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit.

On the one hand, Newfoundlanders have learned that to be taken seriously in institutional settings connected to off island structures standard Canadian English is necessary.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

The lessons he had learned as a child from his father, a tanner, helped him greatly during his stay on the island.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

As a child she studied Roman history, and rapidly learned to translate Greek and Latin ( the former would become her favourite language ) needed.

Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist.

These theories, championed by the likes of Noam Chomsky and others, include innatism and Psychological nativism, in which a child is born prepared in some manner with these capacities, as opposed to other theories in which language is simply learned as other cognitive skills, including such mundane motor skills as learning to ride a bike.

Additionally, Sanskrit grammarians debated for over twelve centuries whether humans ' ability to recognize the meaning of words was god-given ( possibly innate ) or passed down by previous generations and learned from already established conventions — e. g. a child learning the word for cow by listening to trusted speakers talking about cows.

Carcassi began with the piano, but learned guitar when still a child.

When Torres and Paris conceived their child in 2377, she learned from The Doctor that the child would have distinct Klingon cranial ridges as well as other Klingon traits.

Geordi's response made the comparison of child hearing many different sounds at once and eventually being able to pick out what they needed ; it is a learned talent.

Susan was a precocious child, having learned to read and write at age three.

He also learned that he had been designated as this when he was still a small child.

As a child, Robert Mulliken learned the name and botanical classification of plants and, in general, had an excellent, but selective, memory.

Bruckner learned to play the organ early as a child.

While in Savannah, Sherman learned from a newspaper that his infant son Charles Celestine had died during the Savannah Campaign ; the general had never seen the child.

A little before he was 4 years old, he had already written his first letter ; learned how to do multiplication and tell time when an average child would have learned to do all that after the age of 7.

However, she withdrew from the event when she learned that she was expecting her second child.

Anyway, when a fringe group of Trekkies learned that we were going to kill the Spock character, it was like we'd taken a child of theirs onto the Brooklyn Bridge with the intention of throwing it off.

As a child, he learned western classical music, from which he derived a lot of inspiration to create his own style, combining classical music, jazz, and rock themes.

Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus in that order, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born except Zeus, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own child as he had overthrown his own father.

But the Simons did not raise the child as a prince, and stories survive narrating how Louis-Charles was encouraged to eat and drink to excess, and learned the language of the gutter.