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Français avec Nelly - How to Speak Like Marie Antoinette (2 videos)

In part 2, we learn more fascinating facts about Marie Antoinette's private life, as well as some of her famous quotes. Can you guess what her last words were?

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Lionel - L'amphithéâtre de Grand - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Lionel is in the town of Grand, a Gallo-Roman city whose origin is puzzling, as there was no main source of water in the area.
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Caption 33 [en]: We're going to speak slowly, of course.
Caption 33 [fr]: Nous allons parler bien sûr lentement.

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

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner 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 5 [en]: We now speak of spelling mistakes
Caption 5 [fr]: On parle maintenant de fautes d'orthographe

Lionel L - La Bastille

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

The Paris mayor's office set up an outdoor exhibition at the Bastille recounting events that took place on the site of the famous prison. Most people know that the Bastille was stormed during the French Revolution of 1789, but not many people are aware of other important events that took place before and after the Revolution.
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Caption 52 [en]: they speak of the Popular Front,
Caption 52 [fr]: on parle du Front Populaire,

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 5

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Cortés is negotiating with the friendly natives of Mexico with the help of his interpreter, who had been shipwrecked in a previous expedition and speaks Mayan. They are offered a young woman slave, Malintzin, who speaks Mayan and Aztec.
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Caption 14 [en]: And in addition to Mayan, she also speaks the language of the Aztecs, which I do not speak.
Caption 14 [fr]: Et en plus du maya, elle parle aussi la langue des Aztèques que je ne pratique pas.

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 4

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

November 18, 1518... Cortés, the ambitious adventurer, sets out to discover and conquer the unknown empire of Mexico at daybreak before Velasquez has a chance to stop him.
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Caption 11 [en]: But, you aren't a real native, you speak Spanish!
Caption 11 [fr]: Mais, vous n'êtes pas un vrai sauvage, vous parlez espagnol!

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 9. Cortés et les Aztèques - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

The Maestro recounts the events just before Ferdinand Magellan's untimely death in 1521, only a year after he discovered the passage that would allow him to circumnavigate the globe.
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Caption 7 [en]: We will speak little about the mishaps of their course because it deviates from our subject.
Caption 7 [fr]: Nous parlerons peu des mésaventures de leur parcours car il s'écarte de notre sujet.

Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 15. Bruce et les sources du Nil - Part 6

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

After curing the queen mother's grandchildren of smallpox, James Bruce meets with the Ethiopian emperor, Tekle Haymanot, to tell him of his plans to discover the source of the Nile. But he soon finds out that he'll have to demonstrate his warrior skills if he wants to reach Lake Tana.
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Caption 21 [en]: I speak for his good conduct.
Caption 21 [fr]: Je réponds de sa bonne conduite.

Télévision Bretagne Ouest - Concarneau: Un tournage sur la vie maritime

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Breton, France

Long-time Concarneau residents take part in an unprecedented technological event. Their memories of the olden days and the town's maritime life will be filmed and shared on smartphones for visitors to enjoy thanks to QR code technology.
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Caption 21 [en]: He comes to speak about the Nautical Society
Caption 21 [fr]: Il vient parler de la société nautique

Le Journal - Le mur de Berlin s'écroule

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

On the 9th of November, 1989, the wall that divided the German city of Berlin began to fall along with the East German state that built it. Claudia Rusch, a young Francophile, was one of the first to scramble over what remained of the divide, meeting up with a French friend on the western side. She’s recently recounted her story in a book, which is a best-seller in her native Germany.
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Caption 32 [en]: A joy which gave her the freedom to read, to speak, and especially, today, to write.
Caption 32 [fr]: Un bonheur qui lui a donné la liberté de lire, de dire, et surtout, aujourd'hui, d'écrire.

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