"Learning How to Love You" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1976 as the closing track of his debut album on his Dark Horse record label, Thirty Three & 1/3.

Music critics note the influence of light jazz and soul in the composition, similar to the work of songwriter Burt Bacharach, and Harrison himself considered "Learning How to Love You" to be the best song he had written since his much-covered Beatles hit "Something".

[4] Although Alpert was best known as a trumpeter through his success with the Tijuana Brass, he had a US number 1 hit in 1968 with the original version of "This Guy's in Love with You", written by Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David.

[6] In her introduction to the 2002 edition of I, Me, Mine, Olivia Harrison notes that it is her handwriting on the original song lyrics for "Learning How to Love You",[7] which appear on an airmail envelope reproduced in the book.

"[12] The lyrics to the song's middle eight show darkness and stillness as "George's spiritual collaborators", freeing his attention from what Allison terms "this world of divertissement to the numinous world within his heart":[13] Love you like you may have never seen Move you more ways than you have been To a point in the time when we see so much more Than the ground that we touch with each step so unsure.Harrison biographer Ian Inglis notes that, despite the third verse's acknowledgement of "teardrops cloud[ing] the sight", "the singer is comfortable in the certainty of his emotions",[5] declaring in the song's second chorus: "Left alone with my heart / I know that I can love you.

[21] Working with Tom Scott as his assistant producer, Harrison taped the basic track for "Learning How to Love You" with keyboard player Richard Tee, bassist Willie Weeks and drummer Alvin Taylor.

[38][39] The news came three weeks after US district court judge Richard Owen had ruled against him in the long-running "My Sweet Lord"/"He's So Fine" plagiarism suit[40] and Harrison admitted he was "astounded and saddened" by A&M's move.

[51] Writing in his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Schaffner praised the album's abundance of melodic compositions and the "light jazz overtones" of "Learning How to Love You", and concluded: "George with Thirty-three and a Third showed himself capable of producing excellent commercial music that conveys his deep spiritual convictions with subtlety and taste to those who wish to hear, without belaboring the point for those who don't.

[54] Simon Leng views the composition as one of Harrison's best love songs from the whole of his career and admires the recording as "[m]usically, lyrically, and vocally polished" with a "beautifully flowing" mid-song solo.

"[56] Reviewing Harrison's solo releases in 2004, for Blender magazine, Paul Du Noyer considered the song to be one of the album's two "standout tracks", along with "Crackerbox Palace".

[29] In his book The Beatles Solo, former Mojo editor Mat Snow discusses the highlights of Thirty Three & 1/3 and concludes: "But perhaps best of all was 'Learning How to Love You,' a delicately serpentine melody full of tender yearning.