On the face of it this looks more like studying than learning. The distinction is not meaningless. I studied French for six years and passed an exam at the end.

On the face of it this looks more like studying than learning. The distinction is not meaningless. I studied French for six years and passed an exam at the end. However despite all this activity I have never been able to converse in French. By a variant of Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, I conclude that I cannot do mathematics either.