I find that in my language learning, when I have a question about a vocabulary word or a grammar point, I have to go back in my memory to the social situation i

I find that in my language learning, when I have a question about a vocabulary word or a grammar point, I have to go back in my memory to the social situation in which I first heard it. Whether on TV or in conversation. I personally don't get the same hit to my memory from flash cards, though it may just be me.