B2idiomstudyIELTS-friendly
learn to walk before you can run
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to master the basics before trying something more difficult
Also 'you have to walk before you can run'. Teachers use it to slow down impatient learners.
In context
Start with short songs, because you must learn to walk before you can run.
Ask the teacher for easy texts first: you learn to walk before you can run.
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- a bookworma person who loves reading and reads a lot
- a bright sparksaid ironically about someone whose clever idea was actually silly
- a closed booka subject that you do not understand or know anything about
- a crash coursea short course that teaches a lot in a very short time
- a dab hand at somethingvery good at a particular skill or activity