Just wanted to share. I’ve been playing with the vocab builder,Memrise…https://www.memrise.com/course/49854/150-welsh-verbs-for-everyday-conversation/garden/review/
and it’s fine - up to a point. And I LOVE it when I bump into a word I already have from SSIW. These SSIW words are cemented into my brain - words I ‘learn’ on Memrise are fleeting visitors! When SSIW introduces words, we learn them ‘in context’ and repeat them using different verb patterns and so on - so they’re wedged in there! Words from Memrise don’t stick…obvious really - but thought I’d state the obvious…repeat, repeat, repeat - learn, learn, learn. 
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Yess!
Words learned from context are the best.
Flashcards might be decent for revising words you have learned already, but they’re not that great for learning them at first, I think.
Plus when you learn something in context, it becomes a meaning rather than a straight mapping to an English word.
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Oh I so agree with the ‘mapping to English’ thing.I’ve had a stab at several other languages over the years and when you ‘get it’ rather than ‘translating it’ - that’s when you know you’re learning. That’s thinking in a foreign language…yee ha!
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I haven’t used memrise, but I would recommend using Anki or Mnemosyne and creating your own cards with full sentences (i.e. context). You are completely right about learning individual words just not being the same, and if you create the context yourself based on your own interests and needs you will find it even more useful and it will stick in your brain even better.
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Ohh,that sounds interesting. Thanks M2017…I shall delve.
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