Vocab list - confusable words

Here is a list of a couple of similar sounding words that I often mix up, and the techniques I use to keep them apart:

suola - salt
suoli - guts, intestines

A popular Finnish snack is pickled gherkins, which are called suolakurkku, or salt-cucumbers. You don't want to call them intestine-cucumbers. So I make a mental note that salt contains the letter a, as does the Finnish word suola.

vähän - a little
vanha - old

If you wanted to say "a little more", like Oliver Twist, you would ask for vähän lisää, so it's a useful word. As for not accidentally asking for "old more" - I have a friend who has an old van, so it's the word starting with "van" that means old. It's not a particularly sophisticated mnemonic, but it works for me.