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Hi All

I wonder if the colloquial “that’ll learn you” counts!

It’s Friday – forgive me.

Melissa Shaw

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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Saunders D M (CeLL)
Sent: 23 March 2012 09:00
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Subject: teaching and learning in the same word request from Danny Saunders

Dear SEDA colleagues

Do you know of any verbs where “to teach” and “to learn” are combined? In Welsh we have “dysgu” and I always thought this was unique – only to find that in the Maori language “ako “has the same function. There is also “uciti” in Croatian (please see below) – can you suggest any more?!

All best wishes

Danny

Prof Danny Saunders OBE Yr Athro Danny Saunders OBE

Head of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Pennaeth Canolfan Dysgu Gydol Oes

University of Glamorgan Prifysgol Morgannwg

Wales Cymru CF371DL

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Subject: RE: same word for learning and teaching
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:38:48 +0000

Hi Mirijana

Thank you for this lovely email and I would very much like to send an extract to other colleagues in educational development as I think we might start collecting verbs which mean to teach and to learn in different languages! Would you object if I therefore circulated the following please?

“ I mentioned to a mature student ( I'm teaching her my mother tongue which is Croatian,

her father came to N.Z. from Yugoslavia in 1913 to work in the gumfields up North)

that you have found that the word to teach and to learn is the same in Maori as it is in Welsh

and she told me that it's the same in Croatian as well! And she's right.

In Croatian you can "uciti" (the c has a little v over it and it's sounded as a ch sound in English) something

or "uciti" someone something.

I suspect all the Slavic languages follow suit but I would need to check that out.

With all best wishes

Danny

Prof Danny Saunders OBE Yr Athro Danny Saunders OBE

Head of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Pennaeth Canolfan Dysgu Gydol Oes

University of Glamorgan Prifysgol Morgannwg

Wales Cymru CF371DL

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