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Le saviez-vous? - L'utilité des zeppelins français

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France

Connaissez-vous l'histoire du zeppelin français ? Ne manquez pas cette vidéo super intéressante pour en savoir plus sur les tout débuts de l'aviation.

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Le saviez-vous? - L'histoire de la dictée - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia nous parle de la dictée en France. C'est un exercice que tous les jeunes Français apprennent sur les bancs de l'école. On ne se sert plus d'ardoises, mais la difficulté est toujours la même...

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Le saviez-vous? - Le romantisme français

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France

On dit que Paris est la ville la plus romantique dans le monde mais pourquoi? Dans cette vidéo, nous allons explorer le sens du mot "romantique" et l'origine du romantisme français qui est issu d'un mouvement culturel apparu en Angleterre et en Allemagne.

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Le saviez-vous? - D'où vient le nom de la France? - Part 1

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France

Voulez-vous des informations sur la France, l'origine de la France et des Français ? Alors ne manquez pas cette vidéo, vous saurez tout !

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Français avec Nelly - L'histoire de Notre-Dame de Paris - Part 1

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France

Nelly remembers vividly what she was doing on the day she learned that Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris had gone up in flames.

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Caption 34 [fr]: J'étudiais pour devenir professeur de français en master.
Caption 34 [en]: I was studying to become a French teacher in the master's program.

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Le saviez-vous? - Le zeppelin français et le rêve de voler

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Humanity has always dreamed of flying through the air. That dream was made possible with the arrival of the zeppelin at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Caption 25 [fr]: lorsque des Français construisent le premier ballon dirigeable,
Caption 25 [en]: when Frenchmen build the first dirigible balloon,

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Le saviez-vous? - Le dernier duel à l'épée pour l'honneur en France

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France

In centuries past, when a person's honor was offended, he would challenge the culprit to a duel. The last duel in France took place as recently as 1967, between two respected politicians!

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Caption 13 [fr]: Il s'agissait de deux hommes politiques français.
Caption 13 [en]: They were two French politicians.

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Le saviez-vous? - Le casino ou la guerre

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France

Nice's Jetée-Promenade is the site of a former casino by that name. Built on pilings over the sea, the original building was once a thriving casino attracting many tourists, especially British tourists who flocked to the Riviera.

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Caption 48 [fr]: et ces métaux étaient souvent récupérés des bâtiments français.
Caption 48 [en]: and these metals were often recovered from French buildings.

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Le saviez-vous? - Nice et son héritage italien

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France

In this video on Nice, Patricia explains the history of the city, its Italian heritage, and its typically French atmosphere.

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Caption 40 [fr]: Antibes, Cannes, se rejoignent dans un département français,
Caption 40 [en]: Antibes, Cannes, are joined together into a French department,

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Le saviez-vous? - L'histoire de la dictée - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia explains the importance of dictation exercises for learning French. Now an essential teaching tool in the classroom, dictation was originally a pastime for French nobility. The author Prosper Mérimée created a dictation exercise for Empress Eugénie that stumped even the brightest intellectuals. Think you can beat them? Try it yourself here.

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Caption 14 [fr]: pas si évident car l'orthographe français [sic: française]
Caption 14 [en]: not that easy because French spelling

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Le saviez-vous? - La tradition de la Chandeleur - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia continues her series on the feast of Candlemas, which in France is centered around the crêpe. Due to its round shape and golden color, the crêpe was a symbol of the sun in pagan times.

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Caption 3 [fr]: pour le peuple français,
Caption 3 [en]: for the French people,

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Le saviez-vous? - Mener une vie de bâton de chaise

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France

This video takes an in-depth look at the curious French idiom mener une vie de bâton de chaise (to lead a chair-pole life). Though the life of a chair pole might not seem very interesting, the history behind the idiom certainly is!

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Caption 14 [fr]: ces chaises qui étaient utilisées par des nobles et notables français
Caption 14 [en]: those chairs that were used by French nobles and notables

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Le Journal - French North African Film

Difficulty: Beginner

France, Morocco

Opening night in Casablanca for the movie Indigènes (English title "Days of Glory") provided a special opportunity for some of the subjects of the film to reflect upon their past, and for Moroccans and the French to talk about their future.

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Caption 20 [fr]: Est-ce qu'il faut, à chaque fois, que le président français regarde un film
Caption 20 [en]: Is it necessary, every time, for the French president to watch a film

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Le Journal - La vie dans les tranchées

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France

What was life like for the poilus, the French soldiers of World War I? In sum, much, much harder than our lives. Subjected to bullets, bombs, death, and all the atrocities of war, these soldiers fought bitterly to protect their homeland, and one another.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Huit millions de Français mobilisés, quatre années durant.
Caption 1 [en]: Eight million French mobilized, for four years.

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