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Le Journal - Apnée du sommeil

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Not only can sleep apnea keep you from getting a good night’s sleep, but it can also wreak havoc on your health, causing such serious health problems as brain damage and cardiovascular disease. Luckily, thanks to research by the National Scientific Research Center in Strasbourg and special equipment like oxygen masks, sufferers of sleep apnea may now be better able to get some rest.

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Le Journal - Indices révélateurs des glaciers

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

French scientists study 740,000-year-old Antarctic ice samples and find clues that point to a relationship between greenhouse gases and global warming. It is feared that the record high carbon and methane levels of today will cause severe climatic change in coming years.

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France 3 Grand Est - Soigner avec les animaux

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Meet Nathalie, the owner of an equestrian center where no one rides horses. Find out what is so special about the horses and the other animals that live there.

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Caption 65 [en]: He didn't see you coming with your hand.
Caption 65 [fr]: Il t'a pas vu arriver avec la main.

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Sophie et Patrice - La réforme des retraites

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Sophie and Patrice discuss the retirement reforms in France and the mass protests opposing them. They also explain the role of President Macron in this controversial situation.

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Caption 28 [en]: I was coming out... out of a shop.
Caption 28 [fr]: Je sortais de... d'une boutique.

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France 3 - Les conséquences de la crise du beurre

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Faced with a butter shortage in France, this bakery is among the few that are choosing to wait in hopes that the price of butter will drop. Apparently, customers are too fond of the bakery's delicious pastries to let a price increase deter them. After all, pastries are one of life's essentials in France...

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Caption 8 [en]: You didn't see this increase coming?
Caption 8 [fr]: Vous l'aviez pas vue venir, cette augmentation?

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TV8 Mont Blanc - Réchauffement climatique : Les stations sont préoccupées

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Global warming is threatening the ski industry in the French Alps. Many operators have to resort to snow guns to keep the slopes open as snowfall has halved in the last fifty years.

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Caption 56 [en]: Global warming is calling into question the viability of winter sports.
Caption 56 [fr]: Le réchauffement climatique remet en cause la viabilité des sports d'hiver.

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Grand Lille TV - Clap de fin pour la maison dite hantée

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Making the news in Grand Lille is the end of an urban legend in the town of Villeneuve D'Ascq. A house that is supposedly haunted is being torn down, along with the stories and the rumors surrounding it. The demolition of the house is fairly uneventful, but will the legend live on?

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Caption 2 [en]: but which is coming to put an end to one of the urban legends of Grand Lille.
Caption 2 [fr]: mais qui vient mettre un terme à l'une des légendes urbaines du Grand Lille.

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Grand Lille TV - Prévisions Météo (Juin)

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

What's the weather in Lille in northern France? Listen to a French weather forecaster and learn some very useful vocabulary. Soon, you will be able to make up your own forecast and test your skills... as a French speaker and a forecaster!

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Caption 2 [en]: We see it on the satellite animation. It's coming to engulf the whole of Grand Lille [a region].
Caption 2 [fr]: On le voit sur l'animation satellite. Elle vient s'engouffrer sur l'ensemble du Grand Lille.

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Grand Corps Malade - Je suis Charlie

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In "Je suis Charlie" (I Am Charlie), Fabien Marsaud a.k.a. Grand Corps Malade commemorates the victims of the devastating attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. As the slam poet notes, "I prefer to pick up a pen because tonight I am Charlie."

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Caption 22 [en]: If only the coming months could make me lie
Caption 22 [fr]: Si seulement les mois qui viennent pouvaient me faire mentir

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Angers 7 - Un lama en plein appartement

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

How would you feel about a llama walking around in your apartment? Nathalie and François love their friend Indira, even though she sometimes steals their bags of chips.

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Caption 13 [en]: Rejected at birth by her mother... -You coming? -Indira... -Want some? -... was bottle fed.
Caption 13 [fr]: Rejetée par sa mère à la naissance... -Tu viens? -Indira... -Tu veux? -... a été nourrie au biberon.

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Le Journal - Le stress au travail

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Just how bad can stress from work get? Though the effects of stress may not always be visible or immediately apparent, some employees have been driven to insomnia, depression, even suicide because of difficulties at work. Some companies have implemented new anti-stress measures, but will that be enough?

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Caption 14 [en]: of what was happening at his job, all of that, so he was coming back home,
Caption 14 [fr]: de ce qui se passait au sein de son travail, tout ça, donc il rentrait à la maison,

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Le Journal - Choisir un nom d'enfant

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Choosing a name for a new baby is just one of the tricky tasks parents face. Should you go with a classic, like Jeanne; a trendy name, like Mathéo; or an old-school throwback, like Alphonse? It can be tough to decide, but if all else fails, just use your alphabet blocks!

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Caption 18 [en]: And why not? After all, Adèle, Victorine, Ernest or Alphonse seem to be coming back.
Caption 18 [fr]: Et pourquoi pas? Après tout, Adèle, Victorine, Ernest ou Alphonse seraient sur le retour.

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Le Journal - Champagne

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, as it turns out! Thanks to changes in what land is covered by the Champagne Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (or AOC, the French method of labeling foods and wines according to region), some farmers will soon be able to start cultivating official champagne. But not everyone is a winner—some farmers will lose this prestigious appellation.

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Caption 10 [en]: coming close to a million euros.
Caption 10 [fr]: flirtant avec le million d'euros.

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Le Journal - La grippe aviaire - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Billions (oui, milliards!) of birds migrate from Africa every year, and with bird flu developing rapidly, their arrival to France is closely monitored at the Marquenterre National Park. Learn how French scientists and engineers there have taken innovative measures to make it difficult for the virus to settle in the mud where the birds like to feed.

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Caption 4 [en]: to observe, to monitor the birds coming from Africa,
Caption 4 [fr]: observer, surveiller les oiseaux venus d'Afrique,

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Le Journal - La Grande Muraille vue de l'espace?

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Even the Chinese agree with French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy: the great wall of China is NOT visible to the human eye from space, not even from a low orbit. Chinese astronaut Yan Liwei, who orbited the earth fourteen times in a Chinese spaceship, couldn’t see it either.

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Caption 6 [en]: but today the truth is coming out, thanks to this man, Yang Liwei.
Caption 6 [fr]: mais aujourd'hui la vérité éclate, grâce à cet homme, Yang Liwei.

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