The phrase "acquainting himself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone making themselves familiar with a person, place, or subject.
Example: "He spent the afternoon acquainting himself with the new software before the training session."
Alternatives: "familiarizing himself" or "getting to know".
Mr. Hipps said he had racked up 65 hours, acquainting himself with every aspect of U S West's customer support hierarchy.
A former Wisconsin governor, Tommy Thompson, who has been acquainting himself with Iowa Republicans on many weekend trips this year, held his first rally as an official candidate.
Next month, in California, President Dmitri A. Medvedev will spend a day acquainting himself with Silicon Valley, the template for a new scientific city that the government is building outside Moscow.
Hans drifts, visiting his wife and son in London twice a month, amiably acquainting himself with some of the eccentrics at the Chelsea Hotel, and eventually taking up cricket, the game of his Dutch childhood.
In 1993, after a few of years of acquainting himself with the genre, he bought his first Orientalist work, Ludwig Deutsch's "Egyptian Priest Entering a Temple" (1892), at the Tajan auction house in Paris for $3,940.
Mr. Duncan, who before going to Washington was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, has toured rural schools frequently since taking office, acquainting himself with the challenges they face.
Its author had acquainted himself with all previous schools of thought but identified himself with none.
On the eve of World War I, he visited London and Paris to acquaint himself with the newest in art.
He spent about six years in Paris, where he acquainted himself thoroughly with the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully. Jean-Baptiste Lully
He said: "If I am charitable, it is very clear that Chris Leslie has never bothered to acquaint himself with what people's quantitative easing is about.
He had acquainted himself with various government agencies and nongovernmental organizations as well as addressed international conferences on water management, a particular interest of his.
