Latin: Active Recall
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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