[pessimizer]

> You will pick up enough of multiplication tables through doing maths

You will not do maths casually until you have memorized enough multiplication to make it not torture. You will not pick up multiplication from using a calculator any more than you will pick up programming from using a computer.

> native speakers of a language will conjugate correctly without memorising

They do not. They have memorized, through massive, constant, and forced practice, and now they conjugate correctly. The alternative of consulting a computer every time they need to speak is not a realistic one.

[fc417fc802]

> You will not pick up multiplication from using a calculator

Sure you will, at least assuming we're still talking about memorizing multiplication tables here and not how to do long division or the like. I don't think algebra or even basic calculus has any convincing need to involve rote memorization.

I've ended up unintentionally memorizing many things due to frequently needing to consult various lookup tables.

> conjugation

Competent ones will. Wrong conjugations usually "sound" wrong to me even when I haven't seen them before and that's in English of all things.

[graemep]

Both observably false. I know people who are counter examples.

Doing maths is not torture if you do not know multiplication tables if you have a calculator.

Native speakers of a language do not memorise conjugations through forced practice, they memorise through hearing them repeatedly from others.