The phrase "actually heard about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize that you have received information or news regarding a specific topic or event.
Example: "I actually heard about the new restaurant opening downtown from a friend last week."
Alternatives: "truly learned about" or "really found out about".
Later on, when Draper asked for a show of hands to indicate who'd actually heard about the great email imbroglio, barely half the 150-strong audience had – all proof that his supposed notoriety does not extend nearly as far as some people think.
Similar to Yellurkar, Cohler has actually heard about Zendesk from the firm's portfolio companies that were using the software.
We actually heard about the Vox in an FCC filing a couple weeks ago, but held off on posting because there wasn't much to say.
Although Pirq was getting ready to announce this news itself today, we actually heard about it first from a tipster at Apple, who got in touch, enthusiastically, to say how great the service was.
I actually heard about Givology from a friend a few years ago.
I've never actually heard about it from anyone outside my family and their friends.
"I don't remember actually hearing about that," Krugman said.
I didn't actually hear about HSAM until I was about 21, but I first realized that something was a bit different when I started socializing more as a teenager.
ThIs article originally appearedidn'tICE actually
Michael Rosenberg of SI.com gives an impassioned argument of why this is the best sporting day of the year, every year, mostly because it is impossible for the underdogs to be overhyped or for us to be tired of hearing about Kansas State because we haven't actually heard anything about Kansas State.
Increasing partisan polarisation, Mr Klein contends, is the basis of growing popular dissatisfaction with and distrust of Washington.Take any issue that you've actually heard a lot about.
