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What the fuck do you think learning vocabulary by reading is, if not memorization? You're just doing it subconsciously rather than intentionally.
Language acquisition and rote memorisation aren't exactly 1:1.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition
It's like the difference between reading a dictionary and only going forward after you've learned a page by heart vs simply starting to read simpler novels even when you don't understand all the words, and picking it up as you go along. Understanding form context.
That's not memorizing the genders. You see the word, you know the word.
I know that the Spanish word for table is mesa. I didn't sit there and think "the base part is mes and the a means it's female". The word is just mesa. And la mesa looks right because I've seen it. I didn't think "it needs to be la because it's feminine".