How do you say when you learned from something?

Question

If I want to say that I learned from something, Can I use like this? For example:

この小説を読むと、いろいろなことわざを学びました。

Or there are other Kanji that I can use?

Thank you for any help!

Answer 1

A common way to express it is 勉強になる - "to gain knowledge; to be illuminated, enlightening; informative; illuminating" (definition from EDICT). As in 勉強になりました.