Other forms: self-studies
Self-study is learning on your own without a teacher. A year of self-study.
It needs a plan and a way of checking, which is what a teacher usually supplies. Self-study fails most often on not knowing what you have not understood.
1nounself-studyLearning on your own without a teacher.
“Two years of self-study got him through the exam.”
self-study is a method.
Self plus study; the compound became common with correspondence courses in the nineteenth century.
Middle English
self
English
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English, today
self-study
From self + study. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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