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"O Table": The Case for Rote Memorization

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A few years ago, I read Winston Churchill’s recollection of his first exposure to Latin. Entertaining as it was, it paints a bleak picture for the language learner confronted with endless tables of paradigms. Although lengthy, it’s worth quoting here at length because it raises an interesting question:

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