Shadowing Practice: Defending the Undefendable: Prince Arctic Analysis - Learn English Speaking with Video
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54 משפטים
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The life of Prince Artic is a tragedy.
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I never thought of him as a villain, only someone who made the wrong choices in life.
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I think most people who paint Artic as a villain have never read Winglet No. 4, Runaway, which effectively is an extended prologue to Darkstalker Legends,
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taking place right after Artic had given the magic ring to Foleslayer.
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To quickly summarize, Arctic was under a lot of pressure to choose an animus spell to give to the tribe
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and was under an arranged marriage with Snowflake.
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Needless to say, his mother
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Queen Diamond put a lot of pressure on him and didn't give him many freedoms.
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But then he met Foslayer.
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Everything in his world suddenly felt right.
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He couldn't stop thinking about her, and then he made the decision to run away with her.
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He had this perfect vision in his head that they'd run away to some remote island.
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But then everything went wrong.
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Arctic was all too willing and eager to leave his mother, but Foslayer was not willing to leave hers.
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She proposed they instead live in the Night Kingdom, to which Arctic reluctantly agrees to.
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At least he'd still be with Foslayer.
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But during their escape, Arctic accidentally makes a horrible mistake with a poorly worded animus spell.
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Spears!
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Stop those guards!
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The Spears did just that and plunged into the hearts of six ice wing guards, killing them all.
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Arctic would never be the same again.
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He was too rash, too eager to escape his mother.
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His perfect vision of a future with foe slayer was shattered.
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He was blinded by love and to not consider the imperfections of it.
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Now, what I'm about to say is a little bit of speculation, but I think Foslayer is the one who pushed
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Arctic to have children with her.
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And my suspicion comes from the last line of Runaway.
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I'm going to hang on to his soul, and I'm going to make him happy.
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We are going to be happy.
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Maybe this isn't exactly the fate either of us expected, but it's ours now, me and Arctic, together against the world, forever.
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I suspect that Foslayer thought that having children with Arctic would help him heal, to forget about his ugly past,
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but I think it made it worse.
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Darkstalker and Whiteout looked more Nightwing than Icewing.
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They only served to remind him of the imperfections of their love.
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He missed his ice wing home, did not feel welcome in the night kingdom, and felt cheated at life.
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The only bit of goodness he had was reserved for Foslayer and not their children.
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He still loved Foslayer.
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She was the only thing keeping him from going insane.
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Once Foslayer was captured by his mother queen, Diamond,
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he snapped he had an evil plan to trade his daughter Whiteout into sexual slavery and return for his wife, Foslayer.
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While Whiteout wasn't an animus dragon, she had animus genes, so one of her future dragonettes would be an animus dragon, eventually.
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He thought that
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Diamond might agree to this plan, to return animus magic back to the Icewinds through Whiteout,
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in exchange for Foslayer and Artic to live together in peace, but he forgot one thing,
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his son Darkstalker, and he was not going to allow him to take White out.
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Artic would lose all free will under Darkstalker's animus magic, but was granted the ability to say one last thing.
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I do wish I had been a better father.
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If I were, I would have strangled you the moment you hatched.
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I think it's fair to say that Artic lost his soul in that very moment.
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He'd lost his wife, was willing to trade his daughter, and wished for the death of his son.
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Everything in his life went wrong, but he could have stopped it.
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He could have tried to love his children, to let go of his past,
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and to love his wife for who she was and not what she could have been.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Defending the Undefendable: Prince Arctic Analysis”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Foslayer, Arctic, animus, Artic, Whiteout. This video has 54 sentences and 675 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:28. The speaker talks at a natural 151 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dragon noun | /ˈdɹæɡən/ | In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a… |
| spell noun | /spɛl/ | Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. |
| eager adjective | /ˈiɡɚ/ | Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. |
| villain noun | /ˈvɪl.ən/ | A vile, wicked person. |
| horrible adjective | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| capture verb | /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ | To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem. |
| ugly adjective | /ˈʌɡli/ | Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. |
| remote adjective | /ɹəˈməʊt̞/ | At a distance; disconnected. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
| remind verb | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person). |
| fate noun | /feɪt/ | The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. |
| gene noun | /d͡ʒiːn/ | A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms which may take several values and (in principle) predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form… |
| extend verb | /ɛkˈstɛnd/ | To increase in extent. |
| accidentally adverb | /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/ | In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly. |
| slavery noun | /ˈsleɪvəɹi/ | An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| run away with verb | To leave secretly with another person, often with the intention of getting married or of living together against the wishes of the family. |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | was shattered · was blinded · had was reserved |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | someone who made · people who paint · one who pushed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 10 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, he'd, couldn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, suspicion /səˈspɪʃ.ən/, rash /ɹæʃ/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/, reluctantly /ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like dragon, spell, eager.
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