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Below the thunders of the Upper Deep, far, far beneath, in the abysmal sea,
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his ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, the Kraken sleepeth.
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That's right, it's time to release the Kraken.
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This is the legendary sea monster.
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It's massive, terrifying, and hungry.
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Thankfully, it's just a myth, right?
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What if this behemoth of the sea actually existed?
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How would this Leviathan live in the real world?
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And how would this monster affect our lives?
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This is What If, and here's what would happen, would happen if the Kraken were real.
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It's time to dive in.
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We're getting up close and personal with the mythical cephalopod feared by ocean dwellers and land lovers alike, the Kraken.
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How exactly would the Kraken live in our world?
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First, we would categorize the Kraken as a cephalopod.
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Like the octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, the kraken would be a highly advanced and intelligent marine animal.
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Cephalopods are soft-bodied, so they have no bones to become fossils.
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That would explain why we haven't found any remains of a kraken.
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But it also proposes a terrifying possibility.
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If the kraken lived by the laws of science, it wouldn't be immortal, which means there's more than one.
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And they're breeding.
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baby krakens.
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As to where this is happening, we assume it would remain in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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That being said, the species of giant squids alive today inhabit all of the world's oceans, so we shouldn't consider ourselves to be safe yet.
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Your first hint that you may be in the presence of a kraken is that you catch lots of fish.
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And I mean, a lot of fish.
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If it seems too good to be true, that's because it is.
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The kraken is scaring the fish towards the surface.
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And that's a harbinger of death for unwary sailors.
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Giant squids hunt by keeping still in deep waters.
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When a fish gets close enough to the dangling tentacles, it's pulled into the squid's grasp and is unable to escape the suction cups that line the tentacles.
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We can assume that the kraken hunts in a similar style, but fish isn't on its menu.
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It wants you, your crew, and your ship.
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The kraken is described in folklore as being the size of a few small islands, and its back was 1,500 m in circumference.
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It's also said that the kraken was able to pull massive ships completely underwater with its tentacles.
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How strong would it have to be to pull this off?
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Well, Archimedes' Principle states that the buoyant force of an object submerged in a fluid
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equals the weight of the fluid that the object displaces.
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If you take the gross tonnage of your ship, and multiply it by the density of seawater and gravity, then subtract the weight of your ship,
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it will give you the force that the kraken needs to use to pull your ship under the water.
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For the kraken to pull a regular-sized ship completely underwater, it would need to exert a force of just over 400,000 kg.
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In non-mathematical terms, the Kraken is very, very strong. And you?
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Well, I'm sorry to break this to you, but you're Kraken food.
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It's safe to say that if at least one of these monsters dwelled beneath the ocean, anything involving sea travel would have happened very, very differently.
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How would it affect us?
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Well, if this monster of the deep is lurking in the Atlantic.
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It would have changed history as we know it.
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The Vikings wouldn't have been able to sail overseas if this sea monster was eating them.
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Come to think of it, Christopher Columbus and his crew may have ended up in a watery grave, and never made it to the New World.
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In fact, North America might not have been discovered at all until the invention of air travel.
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Now, we could assume that explorers evaded the kraken on their voyage, but with the kraken being such a massive creature,
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it would need a lot of food to sustain itself.
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meaning it doesn't look good for anyone who likes to go in the water.
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Thankfully, the Kraken isn't currently devastating the ocean today.
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If it ever existed in the first place, it would have been gone long before humans made their debut.
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The myths and legends attributed to the Kraken are more than likely encounters with their very real,
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and arguably very terrifying, giant squid cousins.
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But after all that, we can't write the old kraken off for sure.
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Human beings have only searched 5% of the oceans.
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Everything else down there is a mystery.
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It may be a creature of myth, but we can't imagine it would be fun to be eaten by a kraken.
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What if another real nautical creature decided to make you its dinner?
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What if you were swallowed by a whale?
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Well, that sounds like a story for another WHAT IF.
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Lo scenario: Il Kraken, un mostro mitico nella vita reale
Il video ci porta in un viaggio immaginario dove il Kraken, il leggendario mostro marino, esiste davvero. Attraverso un dialogo dinamico, esploriamo come questo cephalopode gigante vivrebbe, caccerebbe e influenzerebbe la storia umana. È un contesto perfetto per imparare l'inglese con i video, poiché combina narrazione, fatti scientifici e immaginazione, offrendo una varietà di espressioni utili.
Frasi e collocazioni utili da memorizzare
- "Release the Kraken": Espressione usata per far comparire qualcosa di potente o temibile.
- "Behemoth of the sea": "Mostro del mare", per descrivere creature gigantesche.
- "Harbinger of death": "Presagio di morte", indicatore di un evento tragico.
- "Pull into the squid's grasp": "Tirare nella grinta del calamaro", per descrivere un'aggressione veloce.
- "Watery grave": "Tomba acquatica", per indicare la morte nel mare.
La tua sfida di shadowing: Ripeti e imita
Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la fluidità, prova questo esercizio di shadowing in inglese: Seleziona un frammento del video (ad esempio, la parte dove si calcola la forza del Kraken) e ascoltalo attentamente. Pausa e ripete immediatamente, imitando l'intonazione, il ritmo e la pronuncia. Ripeti il processo 5 volte, poi registra la tua versione e confrontala con l'originale. Questo metodo aiuta a internalizzare le strutture linguistiche e a parlare con più naturalezza, fondamentale per la pratica di conversazione in inglese. Ricorda: il shadowspeaks è un tool potente per trasformare la comprensione ascoltativa in abilità di parlato!
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
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| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | being said · is described · have been discovered |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | haven't found · have only searched |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | immortal, which means · anyone who likes |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.