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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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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Defending the Undefendable: Prince Arctic Analysis”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Foslayer, Arctic, animus, Artic, Whiteout. Questo video contiene 54 frasi e 675 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:28. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 151 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
dragon sostantivo/ˈdɹæɡən/drago, dragone
spell sostantivo/spɛl/incantesimo, formula magica
eager aggettivo/ˈiɡɚ/avido
villain sostantivo/ˈvɪl.ən/canaglia, furfante
horrible aggettivo/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/orribile, terribile
capture verbo/ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/catturare, riprendere
ugly aggettivo/ˈʌɡli/brutto, laido
remote aggettivo/ɹəˈməʊt̞/remoto
insane aggettivo/ɪnˈseɪn/insano, pazzo
remind verbo/ɹəˈmaɪnd/ricordare
fate sostantivo/feɪt/fato, sorte
gene sostantivo/d͡ʒiːn/gene
accidentally avverbio/ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/casualmente, accidentalmente
slavery sostantivo/ˈsleɪvəɹi/schiavismo
snap verbo/snæp/spezzare

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawas shattered · was blinded · had was reserved
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosasomeone who made · people who paint · one who pushed

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 10 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, he'd, couldn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, suspicion /səˈspɪʃ.ən/, rash /ɹæʃ/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/, reluctantly /ɹɪˈlʌktəntli/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, heal /ˈhiːl/, hatch /hæt͡ʃ/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, fate /feɪt/, extend /ɛkˈstɛnd/, snap /snæp/, goodness /ˈɡʊdnəs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: dragon /ˈdɹæɡən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, snap /snæp/, tragedy /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

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  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come dragon, spell, eager.

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