ALG technique and traditional learning

So I recently delved in to learning about the ALG method and got to understand the technique. I haven’t read/watched everything about it though, as theres a lot of content.

Honestly, it seems to be the way to go for me. It just makes so much sense.

I planned to do traditional learning alongside this, however, upon finding more out about the ALG method, it seems as though this is generally discouraged. The reasons seem sound. We want to associate the Thai word/phrase with the action/thing so it comes naturally to our brain in Thai as opposed to us translating things in to English (which may or may not be an accurate translation).

So, I can absolutely understand why learning phrases that don’t translate 100% to English can be detrimental. And that it’s more effective to interpret the meaning from the context so that we can use the phrases correctly.

But, what about 1 - 1 translations. For instance, learning basic vocabulary, like the word for shirt, hair, eyes? That seems like it would help and speed up the learning a little bit, no?

What about if I really really can’t work out the meaning from the video, no matter how many times I hear a particular phrase/word? Is there a point at which I should Google it? Or would that be counterproductive?