1. Obviously there are many general techniques for memorization you can use, which mostly amount to moving the task into either sensory/​visual or spatial memory. Visual and spatial memory are huge, fat larger than verbal memory.
2. With Anki specifically:
2.1 Include an example of use in a sentence (as a separate note from the bare word).
2.2 I find it is very very useful to bring words in initially only a few at a time e.g. 5 at a time. If I bring in 50 new words I find, as with your experience, I am cycling around and the cycle time exceeds my memory.
2.3 Do it every day. I found my progress more than doubled
With these techniques I learned 1500 Italian words pretty fast. (the vocab required for B1 level).
3. Reading really helps to build vocabulary. You get exposed to the most common words more frequently, in an automatic and natural way. Start with really simple material and build up.
1. Obviously there are many general techniques for memorization you can use, which mostly amount to moving the task into either sensory/​visual or spatial memory. Visual and spatial memory are huge, fat larger than verbal memory.
2. With Anki specifically:
2.1 Include an example of use in a sentence (as a separate note from the bare word).
2.2 I find it is very very useful to bring words in initially only a few at a time e.g. 5 at a time. If I bring in 50 new words I find, as with your experience, I am cycling around and the cycle time exceeds my memory.
2.3 Do it every day. I found my progress more than doubled
With these techniques I learned 1500 Italian words pretty fast. (the vocab required for B1 level).
3. Reading really helps to build vocabulary. You get exposed to the most common words more frequently, in an automatic and natural way. Start with really simple material and build up.