There are different ways we absorb information, they are visual, auditory, kinesthetic and logical (in Russian it is called дискретная репрезентативная система and i'm not sure about the English tearm as in English only three are mantioned ussualy) . Usually one of the chanels works better for a person. You have to find out what type works for you the best and use it while learning. If you are a visual, use pictures, try to asociate words with some immagese in your head. If you are an audile, listen to texts and dialogs and talk to people. If you are a kinesthetic learner than different games will work better for you, when you do something on your own, you will probably learn faster reapiting information while doing different daily stuff. And logical learners are the slowest learners, they need much time to memorise things because they learn something only when logical schems are built in their heads and related to things they new previously, different tables will help to learn new information in this case.