Work & careers

learn as you go

learn while doing something

If you learn as you go, you gain the knowledge you need while doing something instead of knowing everything beforehand.

B1 very common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

Were you trained before you started?

Not really; I learned as I went.

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There was no detailed guide, so I learned as I went.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: I learned as I went before I started the job.

Say: I learned as I went while doing the job.

Learning as you go means gaining knowledge during the activity, not beforehand.

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How it fits in a sentence.

learn as you go; learned as I went

Your turn: say it out loud

There was no detailed guide, so I learned as I went.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

learn as you go

learn while doing something

“There was no detailed guide, so I learned as I went.”

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