My belief is that learning can be done deliberately, and that words in a list are not memorized as a list but used in simple sentences and standard dialogs. That is, if the word is the word for “man,” one would not simply memorize the foreign word by itself, but use it in phrases and simple sentences: “to a man,” “see the man,” “The man is eating,” “The man has a car,” and so on. Similarly with other words.

And, of course, simply because the number appears in a list is no reason you can’t read it and listen to it.

I can see, though, that you believe there is one correct way to learn, and some of the ideas I’ve mentioned fall outside that way.