How to say "educational" in Japanese

• 教育的きょういくてきCommon
  na-adjectiveCovers 'educational' as a quality of the thing itself — instructive content or value. Use it to characterize a program, book, or activity as educational, rather than to report what you personally learned from it.
  その会社かいしゃは教育きょういく的てきな本ほんを出版しゅっぱんする。↗

  The firm publishes educational books.
• 勉強になるべんきょうになる
  expression, prenominal modifierCovers 'educational' as your own takeaway from an experience: it enlightened or informed you, you learned from it. Said from the learner's side, it fits a talk or explanation that taught you something.

Choose 教育的 when describing something itself as educational or instructive in content or purpose; choose 「勉強になる」 when 'educational' means you personally learned from it — the experience was enlightening or informative for you.

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• 教育的きょういくてきeducational
• 勉強になるべんきょうになるenlightening