🏴☠️ PIRATES HAVE CAPTURED THE ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE
⚓ Mini-Challenge: The eccentric millionaire has been captured! 1️⃣ His assistant Isabella Vesper is inconsolable. What would you say to calm her down? 2️⃣ If you were captain of the rescue mission, which ship would you pursue? Barcelona 🇪🇸 or Naples 🇮🇹 Explain why. You may answer in any language you are learning. ⬇️ Now read the situation carefully… ⚠️ URGENT MESSAGE FROM LISBON Something strange happened last night. At 02:17, neighbors near the eccentric millionaire’s mansion reported hearing voices arguing in several languages at once. Portuguese. Spanish. French. …and possibly German. Minutes later, the lights went out. At sunrise, witnesses saw the pirate captain pictured above shouting orders while two ships prepared to leave the harbor. Both flying black sails. Both believed to belong to the Language Pirates. ⚓ One ship sailed toward Barcelona. Dock workers say the pirates were singing loudly in something that sounded like Spanish… or perhaps Catalan. 🏴☠️ The other ship sailed toward Naples. Several crates were loaded onto that ship labeled: “LIMONCELLO — HANDLE WITH EXTREME GRAMMATICAL CARE.” One witness claims the pirates were arguing about whether Neapolitan is a language or a dialect. Inside the mansion, investigators discovered a note believed to have been written by the millionaire during the kidnapping. It reads: “Where five tongues dance beside the sea, follow the city that still dreams in Latin. Ignore the place that sings too loudly.” Scholars of the Language Renaissance are divided. Some insist the clue points to Naples. Others believe the pirates are trying to mislead us toward Italy, and that the real destination is Barcelona. Meanwhile, his assistant Isabella Vesper refuses to leave the mansion and keeps repeating: “We have to find him… we have to find him…” ⚓ Captain and crew, what do you say to her? And where do we sail? Barcelona or Naples? 🏴☠️