“No, I'm self-taught.”
You're an artist. You met someone who likes your work. She asks if you have any formal training in painting. In fact, you don't have any formal training so you say:
No, I'm self-taught.
(someone) is self-taught
Someone who learned how to do something without taking classes or going to school is "self-taught". If you read books about it or got a little advice from other people, it's still OK to call yourself "self-taught".
You usually use the phrase "self-taught" to talk about people who learned complex skills that other people have to take classes for. For example:
- computer programming
- music
- a foreign language (like English!)
Being "self-taught" is seen as kind of cool and interesting in a lot of English-speaking cultures.
“Do you have any formal training?”
You meet someone who's a really talented artist. You want to know how he became so talented. You ask:
Do you have any formal training?
“She goes above and beyond to deliver the very best education to each and every student.”
You're writing an introduction for one of your favorite teachers for a speech that she's going to give at a conference. You want to say really nice things about her. She works really hard, so you write in your introduction:
She goes above and beyond to deliver the very best education to each and every student.
“I saw this incredible documentary the other day on the state of the public school system.”
You're eating dinner with some coworkers and someone mentions the topic of education. You watched a really good film about education last week. You want to talk about it, so you say:
I saw this incredible documentary the other day on the state of the public school system.
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You moved from your home country to the United States after college. A person you recently met is asking you why you moved there. Your reason was just to learn new things and see what life was like in the U.S. You answer:
I guess I just wanted to expand my horizons.
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