>There is loads of difference between remembering the words of a foreign language and fluently speaking it. And alternatively put, there's a difference between

>There is loads of difference between remembering the words of a foreign language and fluently speaking it. And alternatively put, there's a difference between learning to read, and learning to speak. Yet both would boil down to primarily rote memorization, as languages tend to do. Language is not a good example to prove your point on.