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English Idiom: Soak up (something)
Of course, you can use a sponge or cloth to soak up spilled liquid, but that is not an idiomatic meaning.
Have you ever watched children learn?
I used to teach English to children, and they were like sponges; they just soaked up anything I tried to teach them.
They could learn vocabulary very quickly, and they never asked, ‘Why?’
They simply accepted the vocabulary or learned songs, etc., very rapidly.
It was a joy to teach children and a lot of fun, too, but I think they also soaked up my energy because, by the end of the day, I was much more tired than if I had taught only adults.
Kids do an excellent job of copying adults.
Perhaps it is our turn to copy them.
If we tried to soak up new things as children do, maybe we could learn as fast as they do.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 78.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
