Latin: Active Recall

Phase 16-12

Never look at a Latin word and flip the card immediately. Force your brain to retrieve the answer first. If you feel physical mental strain, the technique is working — that strain is the signal that a memory is being strengthened rather than merely recognized. Passive re-reading feels productive and is not.

The big idea

Retrieval effort, not exposure, is what builds memory.

Think about it

Recognizing a word on a page and producing it from memory feel similar but are different skills. Which one does reading real Latin actually demand?

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