I had got great result to use special programs for my Pocket Pc. you can try it from http://www.learnwords.com/. There are so many dictionaries too.

Don't learn foreign words separately. Learn them in context. Write the hole sentence out with the word you are going to learn. Then try to use it in the future conversation, writing, chat and so on. Practice. I know it's not an easy job. But who told us that learning foreign language would be easy? ;)

Try to get to know (watch/hear/read) them in context of anything. For beginners it's better to use short easy sentences like "Mama myla ramu"(Мама мыла раму). So here you can understand, that there's a person (mother - mama), who was doing something (was washing - myla) to some object (window frame - ramu). So, after it has printed in your memory you can easily remember all these words if you hear or read something on that theme. ^_^

Try to get to know (watch/hear/read) them in context of anything. For beginners it's better to use short easy sentences like "Mama myla ramu"(Мама мыла раму). So here you can understand, that there's a person (mother - mama), who was doing something (was washing - myla) to some object (window frame - ramu). So, after it has printed in your memory you can easily remember all these words if you hear or read something on that theme. ^_^