Is that right to say "disturb one's attention"?
hi guys, I'm not sure whether it's common to say "disturb one's attention" for a native speaker.coz I just got the "disturb one's concentration" by checking online, and I don't hear foreign friends say that often.
so, please help me to figure it out, thanks guys~

Question

Is that right to say "disturb one's attention"?
hi guys, I'm not sure whether it's common to say "disturb one's attention" for a native speaker.coz I just got the "disturb one's concentration" by checking online, and I don't hear foreign friends say that often. 
so, please help me to figure it out, thanks guys~

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Hi Angela, you're right, this is not something a native speaker would say.  A bit more of the context would be useful to indicate if someone is being distracted by, for example, a noise or they are just losing concentration.  I suspect there is some confusion also between the passive voice and the active voice but would need to have more of the sentence in order to clarify this.

regards,
Helen

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To divert / distract someone's attention is the standard idiom.

Also for Jacob it's to ' lose one's concentration ', and not ' loose ' it.

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To divert / distract someone's attention is the standard idiom.

Also for Jacob it's to ' lose one's concentration ', and not ' loose ' it.

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I don't think I would ever say "disturb one's attention."

You could also say, 
"disrupt one's concentration" 
"break one's concentration"
"loose one's concentration"

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