Difficulty:
Beginner
France
Nelly goes over some adjectives you'll need to know for intermediate-level French. Try to form some sentences with them!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Nelly concludes her list of 100 essential adjectives. Once you master them all, you'll be a pro at describing things in French!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Nelly tells the fascinating life story of French fashion icon Coco Chanel, beginning with what led to her career as a designer.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Nelly continues to explore Coco Chanel's enormous contribution to the world of women's fashion and explains how the iconic perfume Chanel Number 5 got its name.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
In this video, Nelly gives some advice about reading books in a foreign language and recommends some books for French learners. One of her recommendations is The Braid by Laetitia Colombani.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Nelly recommends some more easy books in French by Amélie Nothomb, Guillaume Musso, and Albert Camus. She also discusses the passé simple or simple past tense, which is primarily used in written French.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Nelly concludes her excellent reading recommendations with some very useful tips. Why not watch the movie adaptation of your novel of choice, or if you're short on time, read a poem or two?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Nelly recites and explains in great detail Victor Hugo's poem "Demain, dès l'aube" (Tomorrow, at Dawn). Though initially it might read like a love poem, it turns out to be much more tragic.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Nelly completes her explication of Victor Hugo's heartbreaking "Demain, dès l'aube," emphasizing the poem's autobiographical aspect and the hardship the author faced.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
France
Albert Uderzo, the co-creator of the famous "Astérix" comic strip, died this week at the age of ninety-two. "Astérix" is the best-selling French-language comic strip, with over 380 million copies sold.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
The Champs-Élysées will still take on a festive air despite the quarantine and lack of crowds. Many lovers of the city of Paris were able to attend the virtual lighting ceremony online from anywhere in the world.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
France
As a heatwave scorches Western Europe, some 38,500 people have been evacuated away from forest fires raging in France’s southwestern Gironde region. The firefighters are trying everything to prevent the fires from starting again.
Difficulty:
Advanced
France
French people are taking to the streets to protest against the government pension reform. Find out why people are so upset about it.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
France
Four days after the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, miracles are still possible. Search and rescue teams work tirelessly to save people trapped under the rubble.
Difficulty:
Advanced
France
A journalist is at Place de la République in Paris to gauge the mood after the French legislative election results. There's an overall sense of relief at the left coalition's defeat of the far right.
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