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Yacine Boularès - La Famille des Saxophones

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 4:51     Country: USA

Yacine Boularès, from the band Afro Groove Collective, talks about the different kinds of saxophones and gives a demonstration of each one. If you’d like to expand your saxophone knowledge even further, check out these Yabla videos from jazz musician Alex Terrier!

Claudine Thibout Pivert - 2ème Salon du livre et des vieux papiers Mazamet

Difficulty: advanced French     Length: 5:31     Accent: French

Claudine Thibout Pivert, a prolific poet, musician, and artist, talks about her latest books and the source of her inspiration, her childhood spent in the beautiful Anjou region of France.

Rémy de Bores - Auteur

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:27     Country: France

Rémy de Bores, an author and publisher, is a very busy man. In this video, he explains the intricacies of his profession and discusses his own books.

Suzy Le Blanc - Romancière, poète

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:50     Country: France

Suzy Le Blanc is a poet, novelist, and short story writer who sets much of her work in the French region of Lorraine. In this video, she talks to us about some of her books and her passion for storytelling.

Thomas - Thomas et sa maison

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:21     Accent: France

Thomas is enjoying a new challenge: building his own home. He is making good progress after several months of work on his new project.

L'auteur - Bernard Colin

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:23     Country: France

Bernard Colin, an author and publisher, shows us two books from his publishing house, Rebelyne Press: a work of autofiction that takes place in the 1970s and a collection of humorous short stories.

Alphabétisation - des filles au Sénégal

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:29     Accent: French

The actress Aïssa Maïga talks about her work for UNESCO, which has partnered with Always to promote literacy among women and girls in Senegal and other countries.

Fanny présente - l'Association TransForme

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 1:58     Country: France

Volunteer Fanny Cardot presents TransForme, an association that promotes organ donation through sport. Happy to hear about the good work TransForme is doing? Don’t forget to register as a donor!

B-Girl Frak - Le "6-Step"

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:37     Accent: French

B-Girl “Frak” breaks down one of the most basic moves in hip-hop — the six-step. See if you can follow her body movements and her instructions in French at the same time.

B-Girl Frak - Limoges

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 3:08     Accent: French

B-Girl “Frak” talks about growing up in Beaubreuil, a neighborhood in Limoges with an unfair reputation for being full of people who want to burn your curtains.

B-Girl Frak - La "B-Girl Frak"

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:48     Accent: French

Lucile talks about how her incredible flexibility and break-dancing skills led to her being known as “B-Girl Frak.” Find out what your true hip-hop name is here.

B-Girl Frak - La Danse

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:34     Accent: French

Lucile, aka “B-Girl Frak,” has been dancing most of her life. But it wasn’t until she discovered hip-hop that she realized what dancing as an art form really meant to her.

Actus de Quartier - Fête de quartier Python-Duvernois - Part 4

Difficulty: advanced French     Length: 2:53     Accent: French, Moroccan, West African

In this next installment of Télé Bocal’s coverage of the Python-Duvernois block party, we hear from a group of kids who’ve made a courageous trip down an enormous slide, and from a municipal advisor who shares with us her inspiring message of solidarity.

Micro-Trottoirs - Art ou science?

Difficulty: advanced French     Length: 2:38     Accent: French

These Parisian pedestrians are asked to answer one of the questions from the 2011 philosophy baccalauréat exam: “Is art less necessary than science”? You never know when those standardized tests will come back to haunt you!

Manif du Mois - Sages-femmes en colère!

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 4:09     Accent: French

Contrary to French folklore, girls do not come from roses, nor do boys come from cabbages, nor does any baby come from a stork. These French midwives, the true “storks” of France, are demonstrating for better pay and working conditions.

Questions à la con - Les fameuses questions à la con

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:53     Accent: France

Test yourself on these “Stupid Questions” and enjoy the hilarious answers from people on the street.

Flora - et le théâtre

Difficulty: intermediate French     Length: 2:59     Country: France

Flora tells us about her love of theater, what it means to her, and how it helped her overcome her shyness.

Micro-Trottoirs - Un rêve récurrent?

Difficulty: advanced French     Length: 2:20     Accent: French

A reporter interviews people on the street about their dreams. The interviewees candidly share their dreams, from the classic chase nightmares to voluptuous dreams of skinny dipping in a fountain of chocolate.

Rosalinde - S'aimer et aimer l'autre

Difficulty: advanced French     Length: 3:30     Accent: French

Let’s talk about love! People share their insights on what love really is. Is it infatuation, self-sacrifice, an adventure, or a journey?

Actu Vingtième - Vendanges parisiennes

Difficulty: advanced French     Length: 3:53     Accent: French

A grape harvest right in the heart of Paris? Some might call it a miracle, but the “Vendange Château Charonne” (Charonne Castle Grape Harvest) is celebrated each year with a huge block party in the eleventh arrondissement. There are plenty of prizes to win (thousands, in fact!) and delicious wines to sample.

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