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Vauréal - Véronique Schneider

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Véronique Schneider est une modiste qui a fait ses débuts à Paris. Elle faisait des chapeaux de spectacle à la Comédie Française avant de partir s'installer à la Cour des Arts à Montréal où elle s'est lancée dans les chapeaux de ville.

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Pascale - Propos sur la musique - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Canada

Pascale, canadienne française et chanteuse-compositeur -qui préfère se présenter en vers plutôt qu’avec l’habituel « bonjour, je m’appelle… » – nous rappelle l’importance de rester optimiste d’une façon légère, face aux difficultés de la vie.

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Interviews à Central Park - Henri

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Ecoutez ce qu’a à dire Henri, le plus jeune membre de notre équipe française préférée, dans la dernière de nos interviews à Central Park.

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Interviews à Central Park - Différences culturelles

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Quelles sont les différences culturelles entre les américains et les français? Ecoutez l’opinion de cette famille française en visite à New-York. Qu’en pensez-vous? Est-ce que les français sont vraiment plus attentionnés? Qui célèbre les messes les plus fascinantes? Et par-dessus tout, qui fait les meilleurs hamburgers?

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Bicloune - Magasin de vélos à Paris

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Bicloune is a unique bicycle shop in Paris with a wide variety of models, from antique bikes from 1905 to contemporary foldable ones. Audrey Hepburn supposedly used to ride a bicycle like one found in this store.

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Caption 87 [fr]: qui est une... une intellectuelle française très connue
Caption 87 [en]: who is a... a very well-known French intellectual,

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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 8 [fr]: de faire un petit tour de la presse française
Caption 8 [en]: to do a little tour of the French media,

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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 36 [fr]: et donc, euh... pouvoir faire découvrir une littérature française, euh... régionale à l'Europe.
Caption 36 [en]: and so, uh... to be able to introduce a regional French literature, uh... to Europe.

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Yabla à Nancy - Le masculin et le féminin

Difficulty: Beginner

France

English speakers may find this strange, but most European languages (including French) assign a gender to every noun. So how are you supposed to know that the word for “apple” (la pomme) is feminine, but the word for “grape” (le raisin) is masculine? Practice, practice, practice!

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Caption 4 [fr]: Dans la langue française, nous avons deux genres: le masculin et le féminin.
Caption 4 [en]: In the French language, we have two genders: masculine and feminine.

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Melissa Mars - Melissa et son premier album

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Meet Melissa Mars: actress, singer, songwriter, storyteller, dreamer, “Martian.” In the first of her interviews with Yabla, Melissa tells us how her career got launched.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Bonjour! Je suis Melissa Mars. Euh... je suis actrice, chanteuse, euh... française ou... martienne.
Caption 1 [en]: Hello! I am Melissa Mars. Uh... I'm an actress, singer, uh... French or... Martian.

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Visiter un yacht - Dans la cuisine

Difficulty: Newbie

France

Sure, the kitchen might be a little smaller on a yacht, but that doesn’t mean you can’t prepare a delicious dish! Patrick Barbary whips up some pasta for us and invites us to dine with him. Cheers, Captain!

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Caption 10 [fr]: Alors bien sûr, on ne voyage pas sans notre petite pâtisserie française, un croissant.
Caption 10 [en]: So of course, we don't travel without our little French pastry, a croissant.

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Les Nubians - Présentation

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Meet Les Nubians, two singer-songwriter sisters who grew up in both Paris and Chad and whose music has been nominated for several awards, including a Grammy (and not just in the World Music category, thank you very much). We know we’re big fans!

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Caption 28 [fr]: parce que bon, quand-même, faut pas se tromper quand même, la musique française aux États-Unis,
Caption 28 [en]: because, well, in any case, let's not kid ourselves anyway, French music in the United States,

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Bertrand Pierre - Autre Chose

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Bertrand Pierre is back to tell us more about his album: Autre Chose, a tribute to the lesser-known love poems of Victor Hugo.

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Caption 31 [fr]: dans un lycée français, dans une Alliance Française, euh...
Caption 31 [en]: at a French high school, at a French Alliance, uh...

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Fanny et Corrine - Langues et cultures

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In our last interview with Fanny and Corrine, we hear a bit more about Brittany and learn about multiculturalism in France and how cultures can influence languages.

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Caption 10 [fr]: Regardez par exemple, nous, euh, on... j'veux dire... on a pas que une culture française;
Caption 10 [en]: Look at us for example, we, uh... I mean... we don't only have a French culture;

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Bertrand Pierre - Sa formation

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Remember Bertrand Pierre, the smooth crooner of “Si vous n’avez rien à me dire”? He’s back to tell us about his background as a musician, and how he stumbled across the Victor Hugo idea…

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Caption 16 [fr]: "Pow woW" si je le dis à la française.
Caption 16 [en]: "Pow woW" if I say it the French way.

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