Teenage stage

[Maybo]

He learned Japanese during his teenage stage.

Do we say "teenage stage"?

 

[Rover_KE]

No.

... during his teenage years.
... when he was a teenager.
... as a teenager.

 

[Maybo]

Can I also say "He learned Japanese during his adolescence"?

 

[GoesStation]

Can I also say "He learned Japanese during his adolescence"?

Yes.

 

[Tarheel]

Rover gave you three good choices in post #2. I suggest that you choose one of those.

 

[emsr2d2]

Can I also say "He learned Japanese during his adolescence"?

You can, but "adolescence" isn't the same as "teenage years".

 

[Maybo]

You can, but "adolescence" isn't the same as "teenage years".

I know. I want to see if it is natural to say "adolescence" in this context.

 

[emsr2d2]

I know. I want to see if it is natural to say "adolescence" in this context.

It's not possible to answer that without knowing when he learned Japanese. If it was from the age of 13 to the age of 19, then it's "teenage years". If it was from perhaps the age of 10 to his early twenties, then it's "adolescence".

 

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forum, smithclarkson01'

Can I also say "He learned Japanese during his adolescence"?

What seems to be wrong with this?

Read post #6 again.

 

[Tarheel]

Can I also say "He learned Japanese during his adolescence"?

Sure you can. However, it's not a word I use. And I believe I am typical in that respect.

I am thinking that it might be one of only a very few chances you will get to use that word. Maybe ten years will go by before you get another such chance. And it's a chance you don't want to miss. I wouldn't, but since you want to, go right ahead.

 

[Tarheel]

You could say:

He was in Japan from the ages of ten to twenty. That's when he learned Japanese.

 

[jutfrank]

Can I also say "He learned Japanese during his adolescence"?

Sure you can. However, it's not a word I use. And I believe I am typical in that respect.

I am thinking that it might be one of only a very few chances you will get to use that word. Maybe ten years will go by before you get another such chance. And it's a chance you don't want to miss. I wouldn't, but since you want to, go right ahead.

Are you talking about adolescence?

It's really not as rare a word as you might think. It isn't at all typical for people not to use it.

 

[GoesStation]

Can I also say "He learned Japanese during his adolescence"?

Sure you can. However, it's not a word I use. And I believe I am typical in that respect.

I've used it frequently.

 

[emsr2d2]

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[abaka]

Adolescence is a perfectly good word, but if you want to speak unalloyed vernacular, say:

He learned Japanese growing up.

That's all adolescence is, really.

 

[Tarheel]

Opinions differ, obviously.

 

[GoesStation]

Adolescence is a perfectly good word, but if you want to speak unalloyed vernacular, say:

He learned Japanese growing up.

That's all adolescence is, really.

Sorry, that can't replace "during his adolescence" for me. The latter is the teenage years, more or less; the former is a person's life until adulthood.

 

[Rover_KE]

barrysingh101, please read this extract from the forum's Posting Guidelines:

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[Matthew Wai]

Do we say "teenage stage"?

I found "be in your teens" at https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/teens
So I think it is possible to say "He learned Japanese when he was in his teens".

 

[emsr2d2]

That is possible but many native speakers consider "in one's teens" to refer more to the early years. If you said to me "Bob learned Japanese in his teens", I would assume he was perhaps 13-16 years old. I would not take it to mean, for example, that he started learning Japanese when he was 19.