learn
knowledge and skills
When you learn something, you obtain knowledge or a skill as a result of studying or training.
The past tense and -ed participle of learn can be either learned or learnt. However, learnt is rarely used in American English.
We first learned to ski at les Rousses.
He had never learnt to read and write.
‘teach’
Don't say that you ‘learn someone something’ or ‘learn someone how to do something.’ The word you use is teach.
My sister taught me how to read.
➜ See teach
learning from experience
You can use learn to say that someone becomes wiser or becomes better at doing something as the result of an experience.
Industry and commerce have learned a lot in the last few years.
You say that someone learns something from an experience.
They had learned a lot from their earlier mistakes.
Be careful
Don't use any preposition except from in a sentence like this.
Don't use any preposition except from in a sentence like this.
information
Learn can also be used to say that someone receives some information. After learn, you use of and a noun phrase, or you use a that-clause.
He had learned of his father's death in Australia.
She learned that her grandmother had been a nurse.