En réponse à Nik Taylor :
>Some dialects of English do exactly the same thing. You can say "I'll
>learn you to speak good". This is, however, highly stigmatized (hence
>my example sentence :-)). Is the same true for that usage of
>_apprendre_?
No. "apprendre quelque chose à quelqu'un" is perfectly correct and normal
French usage. "enseigner" used with a recipient is actually *less* common
than this form of "apprendre".
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.