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Le Monde - SUV à Paris: faut-il en finir avec les grosses voitures? - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

The 2009 transport regulations failed to achieve their objectives. Large vehicles are still popular and polluting the atmosphere. Learn more about the cause of this failure and what can be done about it.

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Caption 36 [fr]: ce qui compense un peu la baisse des ventes.
Caption 36 [en]: which somewhat offsets the drop in sales.

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Le Monde - Incendies : peut-on empêcher les feux de forêt ? - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In 2022, France experienced an unprecedented number of forest fires. This video explores whether we can really prevent them.

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Caption 41 [fr]: c'est grâce au vent qui a baissé,
Caption 41 [en]: it's thanks to the wind that dropped,

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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 48 [fr]: Toute la profession espère une baisse des prix.
Caption 48 [en]: The whole profession is hoping for a drop in price.

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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 2 [fr]: l'enneigement dans les Alpes a baissé de cinquante pour cent en moyenne
Caption 2 [en]: the snowfall in the Alps has dropped by fifty percent on average

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Le Journal - Dilemme des restaurants

Difficulty: Beginner

France

How should a restaurant owner go about finding the right recipe for passing on the increasing cost of basic ingredients to the customer? By math or by witchcraft?

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Caption 4 [fr]: Les quantités ont baissé et c'est vrai que... on fait un petit plus attention aux endroits que...
Caption 4 [en]: Portions have decreased and it's true that... we pay a little more attention to places that...

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Le Journal - À la retraite en France

Difficulty: Beginner

France

The young and the old are always the most severely affected by crises – a fact illustrated by this demonstration, in which the elderly clamor for emergency measures so they can make ends meet.

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Caption 13 [fr]: je vais toucher huit cent soixante euros, donc vous voyez la baisse du pouvoir d'achat.
Caption 13 [en]: I'm going to get eight hundred sixty euros, so you can see how my buying power went down.

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Le Journal - Les vignobles

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Two women – one French, one American – speak of their new careers as vineyard owners. With the increasing popularity of New World wines, land in the Bordeaux region of France is becoming cheaper.

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Caption 15 [fr]: Le prix du terrain avait baissé de trente pour cent en cinq ans.
Caption 15 [en]: The price of the land had come down by thirty percent in five years.

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Le Journal - Contrôle des prix alimentaires - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The first in a trilogy of segments from Le Journal on the same subject, this video discusses the emergency measures called for by the French government, which has brought together a task force to deal with rising food prices in French stores.

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Caption 23 [fr]: Mais pour une baisse en rayon, la prochaine étape devrait être une réforme de fond
Caption 23 [en]: But for a reduction on store shelves, the next step should be a fundamental reform

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Le Journal - L'âge et la fertilité

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

It’s common to see photos of celebrities aged forty and up happily pregnant or pushing a pram. But according to most doctors, a woman’s chances of conceiving drop dramatically after age thirty-eight or so. Of course there are exceptions. Modern medical fertility treatments allowed a sixty-six-year-old Romanian woman to give birth to twins in 2005. But unless we’re willing and able to procure such treatments, which can be financially, emotionally, and physically draining, those who want to wait until their forties to have kids will have to take their chances.

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Caption 29 [fr]: qu'il y avait vraiment une baisse de la fertilité après un certain âge.
Caption 29 [en]: that there was really a drop in fertility after a certain age.

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Le Journal - Le libre-service en pharmacie?

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Those of us who live in the United States are used to being able to buy some medications right off the shelves. But in France, until very recently, you weren’t able to purchase painkillers without first speaking to a pharmacist. Now certain painkillers are available on a self-serve basis, but are pharmacists ready for this change?

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Caption 7 [fr]: Et la baisse des prix de ces médicaments, c'est l'objectif de ce futur décret.
Caption 7 [en]: And lowering the prices of these drugs is the goal of this future policy.

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Le Journal - Manifestations des lycéens - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

All over France, students are protesting the loi Fillon, which they feel does not best represent the interests of students and their schools.

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Caption 17 [fr]: La mobilisation est en baisse, et pour les lycéens les problèmes demeurent.
Caption 17 [en]: The mobilization is down, and for the high school students the problems remain.

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