u/Tamulel

Power outages, some wind, heavy rain and destructive hail now in paraguay, people are saying this is the worst hail storm they ever lived, i'm young so for me it definetly is idk about other people though.

Some fun things about here is that it's so bad people are making fun of it, saying "this is free ice for drinking" with those kind of photoes of big hail, people in "la galera" that is a big place with cinemas, restaurants, shopping and everything hear the sound of the hail as loud as gunshots, here i am with my "corrugated metal roof" (google translation) and it's not great, hail is literally destroying my roof, but somehow my family vehicle is great.

I don't know about you guys in this sub that generally are in the US, but here is not common to have garages, so almost everyone is praying to not get hit by the big hail storm.

Paraguay and Paraguayans are NOT prepared for storms like this, streets are FLOODED (even with some mid thunderstorms it's flooded, now it's a literal river), my house and many more are being attacked by this massive tidal wave of water falling from the sky, and the only thing we can do is just to keep the water out manually, i survived and it was a literal nightmare, lights flashing like it was a horror movie, it's crazy.

Now it's still raining where i live, there aren't radars over here so we can only use satelitary images to know where a storm is, we at least have warnings but many people here don't even know they exist, poorly constructed houses and streets flooded it's just chaos.

It's crazy the US experiences this so many times in just a month and ALSO deals with snow, my god this is hell.

A "facebook reel" showing what i described
turn down te volume on this one, copilation of videos
Yes, so much people here still use facebook and i didn't even know it had reels

A forecast youtuber called the gulf of mexico "gulf of america", when someone called them out i found this gem in the reply section.

Hallo! quick guide and resume of How to use anki

Anki is a tool, is an extension, is something you do AFTER learning, is supposed to help you retain learning, not the other way around, with this in mind and cleared up, let's dive into how you can apply it to languages!.

Before showing you a bit of a guide you can manipulate to fit your style of learning, please, activate FSRS, is free, and really is just good, is a setting that makes Anki really good, and optimize it every month.

So after learning the alphabet if you TL has one that you don't understand, you should find some podcast in your TL with subtitles, and simply put every word into the translator you use and put it into Anki, in the first stages, you should also read a PDF, book, or anything that you can find online that teaches you how to structure sentences, so you can make sentences with the new words you learn!, be sure to use translations too, even if you make mistakes and memorize a sentence that is wrong, you will later fix them and will not affect you in the long run, this is for practicing output by writting, for pronunciation do shadowing.

-If you want to learn how to translate, put your native language in the front of the card
-If you want to learn the meaning of words, put your Target Language in the front of the card!
Note: I recommend this, as it is what it worked for me, be sure to experiment with it from time to time.

When you can already form sentences efficiently, and you have an idea how your target language works, you can add multiple words to your cards!, just be sure it isn't an entire paragraph and don't overthink doing those, if you don't like or can't remember the sentence well, just edit it and make it another sentence, the point is just to have some fun and experiment with the language, and when you do the cards, remember what you learned WHILE making that card, that's the important part and you will learn faster, be really sure you are having fun and be awake when you do the cards!.

If you are not "awake" or just sleepy, listen to some music, do some workout, talk to some friends, do some important stuff and then comeback, if your sessions with anki take more than 30 minutes (if you put 5-10 new cards per day) you are doing this wrong, you should be very focussed while doing cards, it shouldn't take that much, don't overthink cards awnsers, you will get them right anyways at the end of the session, and will remember fast when reading anyways, don't make it a competence, because you are just only delaying the sentence mining part and just doing cards for the day, be sure to do BOTH.

Anki shouldn't be something boring or just memorization, it should be a tool and an extension to your knowledge, it should be to practice what you learned for the day, a test, if you fail that test, just try again, there shouldn't be pressure to do this, using Anki isn't that complicated or deep, just make it simple and easy for YOU specifically and it should work!.

Some notes and not so useful information, but fun to read:
-How to structure cards, works with structuring sentences too if you overthink this part like me
-Using Pre-made cards could be useful for the first month or so to learn, as you don't really know how to structure sentences, if you don't want to do that it's fine, just be aware that if you are serious about learning try out making them by yourself, it's game changing i swear.
-For slangs, don't put them into Anki cards, if you do, you probably are going to have that card as a leech, slans are practiced by using them and reading them in different context, there is no other way to it.
-If you are an intermediate learner you can skip words that just stuck with you if you want to, there is no reason to put EVERY new word into Anki.
-You WILL struggle with new concepts and nuances when making cards and you will fail to get them in the first day, don't overthink it and if you find an error, edit the card with the new knowledge!, it will not affect nothing and you will re-learn the information quickly.
-Don't be scared to use LMM stuff to help you say some things in your TL!, you can even talk to the AI from time to time, it has a very specific way to talk and it's easy to understand, just be sure to use your TL as if you talk to it with your native language, it will search for people explaining grammar in your native language and those can get information wrong or confusing, this is why AI fails so much in language related things, be careful and aware of this when you are using it!.

As always, PLEASE, if you can't remember a card EDIT IT, you can do that everytime, LEARN and THEN memorize.

So yeah that's about it, you can put more advice in comments if you want, in the Anki subreddit there is good advice too, be sure to check them out.

This are satellitary images from paraguay, since paraguay doesn't have radars like other countries in south america, i've never seen something like this, it rains for lile 3 to 10 minutes, silence, and then again after some time, it's so weird, any information of what this could be?