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肝心な2年生で習う学習範囲は、1年生の時よりも当然難易度が上がっている。
習う: to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in.
学習: study; learning; tutorial.
I am confused about how to read 肝心な2年生で習う学習範囲は, does it mean "the scope of learning that we study in the second grade is crucial"?
Thank you for your kind guidance.
学習を習う or 習う学習 in isolation makes no sense, but we say 範囲を習う "to study a (certain) range (of topics/skills)", and thus we also say 習う範囲 "the range which they study". The phrase in question is basically 習う範囲. 学習 is another word modifying 範囲, but it is actually redundant and can be omitted without changing the meaning of the sentence.
I'm not sure whether 肝心な is modifying 2年生 only or 2年生で習う学習範囲 as a whole. It depends on the broader context.
... how to read 肝心な2年生で習う学習範囲は, does it mean "the scope of learning that we study in the second grade is crucial"?
The basic problem is that you've tried to translate the first half of a sentence as if it's an entire sentence. I'm not sure what 学習範囲 should be in English but the entire sentence roughly means "the curriculum learnt in the important second year of studies is of course harder than the curriculum in the first year", so the part you've picked out of the sentence is just modifying 学習範囲 rather than being a complete statement.
