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Karen - Les huiles essentielles

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Karen is passionate about essential oils In this video she talks about some of her favorite ones and their therapeutic properties.

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Caption 2 [en]: I live in Paris.
Caption 2 [fr]: J'habite à Paris.

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Lionel L - Le Canard enchaîné

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

According to Lionel, we hear far too much about Charlie Hebdo and not enough about Le Canard Enchaîné, which is about to celebrate its centenary in 2016. This quality satirical newspaper is in a similar vein to Charlie Hebdo. Both papers even shared the same cartoonist, Cabu, who sadly did not survive the January attack on Charlie Hebdo. Le Canard Enchaîné was no stranger to extremist threats either.

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Caption 5 [en]: when the news gets the upper hand over, uh... everything that we live through every day a little bit,
Caption 5 [fr]: quand l'actualité prend le dessus sur, euh... un petit peu tout ce que nous vivons au quotidien

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Watt’s In - Indila : Dernière Danse Interview Exlu

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Indila, a French singer whose first single "Dernière Danse" (Last Dance) topped the chart in 2013, talks about her debut as a singer. She felt more comfortable as a writer and composer of melodies and only recently started singing onstage.

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Caption 23 [en]: And from thread to needle [one thing led to another], it then led me to live what I call my second life in music.
Caption 23 [fr]: Et de fil en aiguille, ça m'a amenée ensuite à vivre ce que j'appelle ma deuxième vie dans la musique.

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Lionel - à la brocante

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to an Alsace flea market and unearths some shopping gems: old vintage postcards painted by a student of Picasso, a set of tires, a few saucepans, and a makeup kit that he buys for his four-and-a-half-year-old daughter, or so he claims...

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Caption 31 [en]: and who went back... to live in the United States. And his son came back to live here, in Sarre-Union, in Alsace.
Caption 31 [fr]: et qui est reparti... vivre aux États-Unis. Et son fils est revenu habiter là, à Sarre-Union, en Alsace.

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L'auteur - Bernard Colin

Difficulty: Intermediate

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.

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Caption 12 [en]: in the era when you could live without restrictions.
Caption 12 [fr]: à l'époque où l'on pouvait vivre sans interdiction.

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B-Girl Frak - La Danse

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

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.

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Caption 19 [en]: And that's what I live for, it's... Today I'm a professional dancer,
Caption 19 [fr]: Et c'est ce qui me fait vivre, c'est... Moi aujourd'hui je suis danseuse professionnelle,

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Jean-Marc - Études et travail

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Just how did Jean-Marc get the money for that beautiful car and those fancy ski trips? The answer involves a roundabout trek to the open outcry auction market of the French stock exchange (“la Bourse”). So could we say that Wall Street too resembles a “playground for grownups”?

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Caption 1 [en]: As I told you, I live in Paris and, uh... I work, uh, on, uh, the financial markets,
Caption 1 [fr]: Comme je vous ai dit, je vis à Paris et, euh... je travaille, euh, sur, euh, les marchés financiers,

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Le Restaurant "Flam's" - Sa petite histoire

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Tarte flambée is a specialty of the Alsace region of France that resembles a pizza. Typically made with crème fraîche, onions, and bacon, the traditional tarte flambée has also undergone many variations. Flam’s, a restaurant franchise based in Strasbourg, has dedicated itself to perfecting this Alsatian delicacy.

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Caption 56 [en]: I bought my apartment specifically so I could live in an environment that was a little bit different, uh...
Caption 56 [fr]: J'ai acheté mon appartement justement pour vivre dans un cadre un p'tit peu différent, euh...

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Le Village de la Bière - Des bières de partout

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Did you know there are 55,000 different kinds of beer? And more than 5,400 of those are German? You can find quite a few of these at Le Village de la Bière, a shop in popular French city Strasbourg. How long would it take to sample them all…?

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Caption 24 [en]: when you live there, it's a small village.
Caption 24 [fr]: quand on y vit, c'est un petit village.

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Fanny et Corrine - Leurs origines

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Fanny and Corrine tell us all about the merits of their hometowns. Crepes and parties? Or hot weather and bouillabaisse? Either way, you get some lovely beaches!

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Caption 17 [en]: Uh, we have mountains, we have, uh... all that we need, really, to live on the Mediterranean coast.
Caption 17 [fr]: Euh, on a des montagnes, on a, euh... tout ce qu'il faut en fait pour vivre dans la Méditerranée.

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Interviews à Central Park - Henri

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Hear from Henri, the youngest member of our favorite French team, in the last of our Central Park interviews.

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Caption 3 [en]: I live... uh... actually...
Caption 3 [fr]: j'habite... euh... enfin...

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Interviews à Central Park - Les 24 Heures du Mans

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

How long would you like to spend driving a race car around a track? An hour? Two? How about twenty-four? In the third in our series of Central Park interviews, we hear from a Le Mans native about the famous 24 heures du Mans.

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Caption 2 [en]: I live in Le Mans in the Sarthe [a "département," or administrative division in France.]
Caption 2 [fr]: Je vis au Mans dans la Sarthe.

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Interviews à Central Park - Discussion politique

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We’re back in Central Park! This time, French teens Barbara and Lorraine discuss politics, including the recent controversial Contrat Première Embauche and President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Love him or leave him? The girls don’t quite agree…)

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Caption 2 [en]: I live right near Paris in a Parisian suburb.
Caption 2 [fr]: J'habite à côté de Paris en banlieue parisienne.

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