So, yeah - it goes into the implicit memory at some level and stays there. it's ...a good method because its kinda algorythmic - simple, repeatable steps. It's a lot like the picture above. Not perfect of course, but it's definitely in the right family of what a perfect language learning system would be like. But language learning is one of those topics (like many) that I have lots of thoughts on :D Thanks for the posting - :) "