we have always been fascinated with swashbuckling Buccaneers and their Shanty ships these Timeless Tales of treason thievery and treachery have graced the Silver Screen since Hollywood's Heyday get ready to get hooked for good Ahoy Hall aboard we'll take a peek into the world of pirates on this week's episode of f why I welcome to for your info English you got it [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] edition of FYI for your English there are over 225 episodes available now so if you
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reminds me of the word Castle as well I don't say castle I say castle Como latte Nolo de themos there are a lot of these silent letters in English I'm sure you're well aware of the ever famous silent bee numb thumb dumb anyway I'm going off on a tangent I said we've been fascinated by swashbuckling Buccaneers and swashbuckling is the same as sword fighting and buccaneer here I think you can figure out I said swashbuckling Buccaneers and their Shanty ships and the ship is
sheep sheep and ship very very different I said the word Shanty and a shantius unachotha cabana chabola Ashanti but it's also the name of a sailor's song it says saloma here so something that Sailors sing when they are at Sea I did it for a double meaning there a double entender as you know we love to use French in English then I said these Timeless Tales of treason does that sound familiar traicion treason hey it's not too different thievery and thievery is if you're a thief your business is
thievery and treachery and treachery is the same as treason is we would say you're a Trader and it's true these Timeless Tales estas historius they've graced the Silver Screen into Graces I think you say the Silver Screen La pantaya Grande since Hollywood's heydayo the Hollywood and speaking of Hollywood we have an episode on Hollywood if you haven't listened to it then I said get ready to get hooked and I did that on purpose to get hooked on it's interesting
because if you say addicted you say two so I'm hooked on English I'm addicted to English you probably know the hooked on one from a famous song [Music] I'm hooked on English but also a hook is what Captain Hook had Garfield I think you say in Spanish and then I said for good and this is a very common expression in English that means then I said Ahoy all aboard and Ahoy is a greeting that pirates said among each other I said Ahoy All Aboard in fact you guys know the famous chocolate chip
cookies Chips Ahoy well that's a play on words for Ships Ahoy is Ahoy Ships Ahoy yeah there's always something punny going on now let me warn you it's not very common for normal people to walk around saying Ahoy we say hello hey but we don't say Ahoy that's why I used it it's pirate language oh and in the bonus part we're gonna take a look at some pirate language we're gonna learn to speak pirate my friends mateys we'll also take a look at tons of fun facts and we'll look at vocabulary that'll
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take a peek into the world of pirates on this week's episode of FYI and I want you to pay attention to how I'm pronouncing It pirate I didn't say rate I said writ pirate as we always do at the beginning of each show is we Define the word I think it's a good way to find out what it is in black and white The Bare Bones piracy is an act of robbery or criminal Violence by ship or or boat born attackers upon another ship or a coastal area typically with the goal of stealing
cargo and other valuable Goods that's a difficult word to pronounce isn't it valuable those who conduct acts of piracy are called Pirates vessels which is a type of ship used for piracy are pirate ships the earliest documented instances of piracy were take a guess in the 14th century BC there was a group called The Sea peoples a group of ocean Raiders and sacchiadores are Raiders does it sound familiar Tomb Raider well these Raiders attacked ships on the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas but one of
the interesting things I found out when I was researching this is that nearly three quarters of all pirate theft incidents today you know nowadays they don't take place in the water well yeah the ships are in the water but they take place when the ship is docked or anchored and the word doc is [Music] I love it when English is logical like that and where do pirates like to operate well supposedly narrow shipping channels and narrow is the opposite of wide is I think you say these are roots
that they know that of course shipping channels where they send Goods all around the world they know that nowadays there's going to be a shipment of TVs or Air Jordans back then it may have been Jewels or works of art historic examples of the places where piracy has always been the highest is Gibraltar oh by the way in the bonus episode we're going to take a look at some of the Spain connections as well also the straight the Strait of Malacca it's an easy one
to remember we drove or not we drove we sailed straight through the street Madagascar the Gulf of Aiden and the English Channel and it's because of the geography it makes it easier for pirates to attack and as we know the word piracy nowadays has changed a little bit too it doesn't just have to do with Maritime piracy we talk about piracy when we talk about in the air or computer networks even in science fiction or outer space but Seaborn piracy is still a thing in
the 21st century and Seaborn pasando en el mar I have a figure here from
2004. they say that the estimated worldwide losses were 16 billion dollars per year it's probably a lot more now since the prices of goods have gone up oh and one billion is so just remember that another thing about modern day Pirates is these guys aren't armed with swords anymore no way or little pistols these guys have automatic and semi-automatic weapons they have assault rifles machine guns grenades I think I even saw a video with a guy with a bazooka and before in the intro I said that they
have Shanty ships and I know what you're thinking you're thinking Shanty but aren't they really nice ships aren't they these big grandiose ships no I mean that wouldn't be very good I mean let's think about their objective what are they trying to do they're trying to get out of Dodge they're trying to get out of Dodge as quick as possible so a lot of times these boats are old small and usually on the faster side and governments are trying to tackle this problem of course
Pirates are pretty smart and they try and do their piracy in international waters but it affects the whole world obviously because the goods that are being transported go to countries from all parts of the globe and now some of these big ships are armed with high pressure water cannons security guards alarm systems I mean anything they can do to deter her these Pirates if you recall this was famously depicted in the hit Blockbuster film based on the best-selling book Captain Phillips we
mentioned it before starring Tom Hanks do you remember they had those water cannons and the other guys had semi-automatic weapons if you remember the movie excellent movie and it's based on a true story it's when a group of Somali pirates overtook a U.S cargo ship in 2009 and this took place in the middle of the Indian Ocean they held the crew captive for four days and this is quite normal but what made this so important was it was the first successful seizure of a U.S ship and to
seize is to take by force I always teach it when I teach Carpe Diem Carpe Diem in English you can say Carpe Diem but you can also say seize the day but that's just one example of piracy on the big screen and it's not romanticized in that movie if you remember The Goonies I remember One-Eyed Willy he was my favorite pirate from the movie The Goonies but think of uh Jack Sparrow Jack gordion you know it makes being a pirate look like the bomb so when did this fascination with piracy start
there's something called the age of sail the age of sale lasted from the mid 16th century to the mid 19th century and it was when sailing was on the rise there was a boom for militaries for goods and services we really realized the potential of sailing and wherever there's opportunity you're gonna get some Crooks Crooks son ladrones there was a two-volume book called a general history of pirates it was published in London in 1724 and this book is generally credited
did with bringing these figures into the the public eye making them popular for the first time I mean one thing was true the public was into it they were fascinated by anything that had to do with pirates and then there was something called the Golden Age of piracy and this is a period between the 1650s and the 1730s when Maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the Caribbean you can say Caribbean or Caribbean the UK the Indian Ocean North America and West Africa so
piracy was on the rise I didn't know there was a golden age of piracy which obviously led to a golden age of piracy and Pirates and swashbuckling films in Hollywood one of the most notable novels is Treasure Island which came out in
1883. and don't forget about Peter Pan we already mentioned Captain Hook that one came out in 1911 and both of those have been adapted to plays and to movies and many many versions of those movies as well so this fascination with pirates lives on and we already mentioned Mr gorion Jack Sparrow that was in 2003 there was a new wave of fascination with pirates with the Pirates of the Caribbean which is not just a movie it's also a ride at Disney and obviously there's tons of merchandising my
daughter has dressed up as a pirate she's dressed up probably as about 10 different things including Ringo Starr and one of those things was a pirate so that Fascination starts from when we're young and remember we're talking about bad guys here all right here's one for you history buff what does Julius Caesar have to do with pirates you won't believe it but the most iconic Roman of all time JC no not Jesus Christ Julius Caesar was once a victim to Pirates these Pirates were from Sicily and he
was held captive for a ransom and a ransom is the money that they want to be paid to let you go well adjusting it for inflation that Ransom was a quarter of a million dollars today and Caesar well he wasn't too happy with this but being the leader he was he gained their respect but he vowed to return to make them pay hmm he sounded a bit vengeful well did he do it you bet he made good on that word and when he was free he returned to take the lives of all his captors and he
took back the ransom money as well did you guys know that fun fact well here's another one for you and I'll have a bunch more in the bonus episode how do pirates kill their victims they make them walk the plank right there's a plank on the side of the boat and they blindfold them and then they walk right off the edge of the plank and splash they're in the water and they meet their watery death well that's not true that's something that Hollywood added in and if
you think about it I mean if you got to kill a lot of people I mean some of these Pirates were pretty busy if you got to kill a lot of people you're not going to take a couple minutes to kill each one it's just a lot easier to leave them on a deserted island somewhere and let them fend for themselves well we'll take a look at that and more fun facts as well as idiomatic expressions in the bonus part of today's F why [Applause] foreign [Music]