A few summers ago, I picked up the book “Fluent forever: How to learn any language fast and never forget it” by Gabriel Wyner, and it changed everything I thought I knew about language-learning. Highly recommend.
One of the top things I learned from the book was about the neuroscience behind memorization, particularly as it applies to learning vocabulary. Spaced repetition, reviewing flashcards more or less often based on how well you know them, is the way to do it. And the application Fluent Forever recommends, which I’ve been using, is called Anki.
Anki is a web-based, desktop, and mobile application. You can upload flashcard decks, and Anki’s algorithm will show you flashcards at different rates, depending on how well you know the word. If you know “կադ” means milk, it’ll only show you that flashcard periodically just so you don’t forget it. If “հաց” (bread) keeps tripping you up, it’ll show you that word every day until you really really know it.
Vartan and I have built a number of flashcard decks for the Anki system to help learn Western Armenian, and we’ll be uploading them to this site and to Anki for anyone who wants to use them 🙂

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