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In Homer’s Odyssey, the protagonist has to guide his ship through a treacherous gap.
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On one side, Charybdis, a terrifying whirlpool monster.
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On the other, Scylla, a six-headed woman who wants to claw out your eyes then drown you to death.
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But although these monsters are fictional, Odysseus’ passage has been identified with a real place: the Strait of Messina, between the island of Sicily and the toe of Italy’s boot.
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The Strait is famous for its treacherous conditions, strong currents, and yes, whirlpools.
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But the Strait has another interesting quirk.
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The seas on either side of it have opposite high and low tides.
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Only a narrow strip of water separates high tide from low.
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That might seem impossible.
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But it’s all down to a simple quirk of geography.
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The Mediterranean Sea, the body of water that separates southern Europe and North Africa, is divided into a whole bunch of smaller seas, defined by the way they interact with the coastline.
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Two of those seas, the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas, both cradle the coast of Italy.
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The Ionian Sea is underneath the boot, while the Tyrrhenian is to the west of it.
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The Strait of Messina, between Italy and Sicily, connects them.
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Now, besides the aforementioned mythological significance, these seas have another peculiar property.
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They’re in tidal opposition to each other, which means that when it’s high tide in one sea, it’s low tide in the other.
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Which sounds a little weird.
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After all, the two seas are basically in the same spot.
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They’re each other’s next door neighbors, which means that the forces driving the tides – the Moon, the Sun, and the rotation of the Earth – should be acting on them in roughly the same ways.
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So it doesn’t really make sense for them to have such different tides.
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But to break down why this is happening, we first have to zoom way out to what causes tides in the first place.
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Imagine Planet Earth without any land on it at all.
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Just a huge, spinning ball covered in water.
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When the Moon’s gravity pulls on the planet, it’s easy to imagine a section of that water actually bulging upwards, drawn towards the Moon’s pull.
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This is called the tidal bulge.
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Now, the Earth rotates while the Moon remains relatively in place, so imagine that the Earth rotates under the bulge and it ends up moving across the entire planet.
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Right in the middle of the tidal bulge, sea level would be higher, and the area directly under the bulge would experience high tide.
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The size of the tidal bulge isn’t constant all the time, though.
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It’s modulated by the Sun, which also pulls on the water.
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That’s why high tides are higher during times when the Moon and the Sun are pulling in the same direction, and lower when they’re pulling against each other.
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The Moon and the Sun don’t create water out of nowhere.
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The extra water that goes into the tidal bulge has to come from another part of the ocean.
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You’d think the water would come from the far side of the earth, but it doesn’t.
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There’s a bulge there too, and that’s because the Earth itself is constantly spinning.
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The Earth’s inertia creates a counterweight, a second tidal bulge exactly opposite to the first tidal bulge.
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Between them, you have two areas of lower sea level, which would be considered low tide.
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So on this water planet, without any continents, any given location would experience two high tides and two low tides a day.
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But the thing is, we do have land, and land makes tides a little more complicated.
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Except for a few low-lying islands and the occasional sandbar, the tidal bulge can’t pass over land.
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That means that that tidal bulge is constantly crashing into the coastline, and those coastlines can change the properties of the tide.
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This is why in some parts of the world, we can have particularly dramatic, spectacular high tides, because the coastline funnels that rush of water into narrow inlets that amplify the force of the tidal bulge.
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We’ll explain why the Med is different in a sec, but first, this quick ad break.
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The Mediterranean Sea is… not one of those places with spectacular high tides In the Mediterranean, there’s sort of too much coastline.
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When you look at a map of the Mediterranean Sea, one of the first things you might notice is how enclosed it is.
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While the Med does have a few points where it meets larger bodies of water, those points are relatively narrow, which means that not a lot of water can leave the Med or come in at any given time.
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That means for tidal purposes, the Mediterranean is a bit like a bathtub.
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When the Sun, Moon, and Earth start doing their thing and the tidal bulge moves over the Mediterranean, it can’t just borrow water from the Atlantic to have a sea-wide high tide.
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The water that rises with the high tide has to come from somewhere else in the Mediterranean.
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And since the Moon is pulling on the entire Mediterranean at once, this kind of results in the water sloshing back and forth ineffectively, which is why tidal cycles in the Mediterranean are shallower than in other parts of the world.
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And I really mean shallow!
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Most of the Mediterranean is considered non-tidal for all practical purposes, with tides on average being about 30 cm high.
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But while the tide in the Strait of Messina isn’t that high in the grand scheme of things, it’s known for having really strong tidal currents, so strong that this area is actually being considered for tidal energy.
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Those currents are constantly moving, rushing in both directions through the Strait of Messina.
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The Strait’s geography contributes to those odd tides in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas.
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When it’s high tide in the Tyrrhenian Sea, water flows into it from the Ionian Sea, through the narrow Strait of Messina.
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And vice versa - when the tide in the Tyrrhenian Sea goes down, it rushes all the way back to the Ionian Sea, through the Strait of Messina.
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This happens on a semidiurnal period, which in tidal speak just means that it happens about twice a day, creating a phenomenon that looks a lot like a normal tide.
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This “sea-saw” means that the tides in both seas are always going to be opposite each other.
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But that’s not all.
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The seas might be in about the same part of the world, but they’re separated from each other by enough land to be chemically different.
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The water in the Ionian Sea, for example, is saltier than the Tyrrhenian.
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Saltier water is denser than freshwater, and whenever waters of different densities mix, they can cause some really gnarly whirlpools and other instabilities.
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These smaller disturbances, combined with the really huge whirlpools in the Strait that come from all that water rushing back and forth, are what make it a really deadly place for mariners, making the Strait known for its wild, strong currents, and deadly whirlpools.
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It’s hardly surprising that the Ancient Greeks may have imagined monsters to explain the place.
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Makes you wonder what other sea monsters might be lurking out there.
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호메로스의 오디세이는 이야기 속 주인공이 두 개의 무서운 존재 사이를 항해해야 하는 도전을 다루고 있습니다. 이러한 맥락에서, 이 비디오는 긴장감 넘치는 상황을 통해 영어 말하기 능력을 향상시키는 데 큰 도움이 됩니다. 실제로 이러한 내러티브는 특정 상황에서 어떻게 반응하고 표현해야 하는지를 이해하는 데 효과적입니다. 영어 쉐도잉을 활용하여 이와 같은 이야기를 듣고 반복함으로써, 여러분은 자연스럽고 유창한 영어 발음을 익힐 수 있습니다. 매일의 연습은 언어 습득에 큰 도움이 되며, 유튜브 영어 공부와 같은 자료를 통한 학습은 상황에 맞는 표현을 배우는 데 유용합니다.
문맥 속의 문법과 표현
- “When the Moon’s gravity pulls on the planet” - 이 구문은 조건절을 사용하여 원인과 결과를 설명합니다. 이와 같은 구조는 상황을 설명할 때 매우 유용합니다.
- “It’s easy to imagine” - 이 표현은 상상을 하도록 유도하는 방법으로, 영어 말하기에서 자주 쓰입니다. 사람들에게 구체적인 이미지를 떠올리게 하는 것이 중요합니다.
- “That might seem impossible” - 여기서 사용된 조동사 'might'는 가능성을 나타내며, 다른 의견을 받아들이는 태도를 표현하는 데 적합합니다.
이와 같은 다양한 문법적 구조를 익히는 것은 실제 대화에서 자주 사용되므로, shadowspeaks의 실습을 통해 반복적으로 연습해 보세요.
공통 발음 주의사항
이 비디오에 등장하는 몇 가지 발음이 영어 학습자에게 어려울 수 있습니다. 특히 “Charybdis”와 “Scylla”와 같은 신화적 존재의 이름은 한국어로 발음할 때와는 다른 방식으로 발음되어야 합니다. 이 외에도, “Mediterranean”과 같은 긴 단어의 발음은 혀의 위치와 발음의 정확성이 중요합니다. 이러한 단어들을 반복 연습하면 영어 발음 교정에 큰 도움이 될 것입니다. 비디오를 보면서 직접 따라 하는 연습을 통해 자연스럽게 발음을 교정해보세요.
쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법
쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.