The phrase "and learnt to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the process of acquiring knowledge or skills in the past.
Example: "She practiced every day and learnt to play the piano beautifully."
Alternatives: "and learned how to" or "and acquired the ability to".
He took ballet lessons and learnt to play the guitar.
It was here that I came as a boy and learnt to swim.
You have borne the pain of those who have known fear and learnt to conquer it.
I've now worked through this internalised homophobia and learnt to embrace my identity as a camp gay man.
I dread to think how many tens of thousands of young people went through there and learnt to swim.
Will it succeed?It would certainly help if the riders showed better order and learnt to shoot straight.
I washed in rivers and streams, learnt to navigate and tell the time by the sun, and to pick out the different calls of birds - my favourite being the buzzard with its cat-like meow.
Discarded by Derek, she gets a job on a local paper and, having learnt to spot and sell a story, is inspired by a cast of real-life Fleet Street figures: "My gods, or rather goddesses (Katharine Whitehorn and Penelope Gilliatt were outside my orbit), were Drusilla Beyfus, Veronica Papworth, Jean Campbell, Shirley Lord, Barbara Griggs and Anne Sharpley".
Now I'm also wondering where are all the people with other so-called "disabilities" - blind or deaf protagonists, protagonists on a wider range of the autistic spectrum, or even just children who are "different" and have learnt to see and travel the world in a different way.
I was taught how to read people and learnt who to trust and who to be careful of.
He had leave to stay in Britain and had learnt to do a lot with his toes.
