What's the main difference between "recall" and "remember?"
Native speaker’s answer
Rebecca
To "recall" is to bring to mind a collection of processes over a lengthy period of time. To "remember" is to bring to mind one process that happened in the past. "Recall" can also mean to bring to mind and then to communicate that memory to someone. Whereas "remembering" doesn't necessarily mean telling someone what you "remember." So, here, he's trying to "recall" from his career all the times he had to do an American accent, to decide which one was the hardest to do in order to tell the interviewers. Ex: I can recall exactly what she said that day before she left: "I'll come back in the summer," and she never did. Ex: She remembered what he had said to her before he left. Ex: Do you remember what happened yesterday? Because I don't. Ex: I can't recall how we shot the whole movie over three months, but it was difficult.
