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Sophie et Patrice - Le bricolage

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Sophie has a DIY project she wants to share with Patrice, who is ready to help while cracking a few jokes along the way. Find out what this project is all about!

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Caption 4 [fr]: OK. -Et ce n'est que le début. -D'ac. -Oui.
Caption 4 [en]: OK. -And this is just the beginning. -K. -Yes.

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TF1 Info - Réélection d'E. Macron : la réaction des Français

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Listen to people's reaction to Emmanuel Macron's reelection for a second term. Some newspaper headlines show a lack of enthusiasm, yet there is also a sense of relief.

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Caption 101 [fr]: Mais un début de mandat marqué par un score historique de l'extrême droite.
Caption 101 [en]: But a start to the term marked by a historic result for the far right.

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Sophie et Patrice - Les ombres chinoises

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Patrice and Sophie reminisce about playing ombres chinoises (shadow puppets) when they were little. Patrice makes some interesting observations about Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible and Coppola's Dracula, two films that incorporate shadow puppetry.

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Caption 7 [fr]: C'est-à-dire au début, ça nous faisait rigoler,
Caption 7 [en]: That is to say in the beginning it made us laugh,

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Claire et Philippe - Je suis malade

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Claire has a sore throat, and Philippe is concerned about her health. They exchange a few health tips and home remedy ideas. Claire loves aromatherapy, while Philippe recommends pans of water for humidifying the air to make it more breathable.

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Caption 10 [fr]: que tu as eue au début?
Caption 10 [en]: that you had in the beginning?

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Le saviez-vous? - Karine Rougier présente son art - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Karine explains her creative process and her techniques. She works with wood, rocks, old postcards, stamps, and much else. The result is a mix of surreal creations that will intrigue the eye and puzzle the mind.

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Caption 19 [fr]: Donc le... le... la peinture, au début,
Caption 19 [en]: So the... the... the painting in the beginning,

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Micro-Trottoirs - Sacrée France Gall

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Following the recent passing of French singer France Gall, people share their reactions and thoughts about her songs and her life. She belonged to an older generation, but young people also enjoyed her songs.

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Caption 17 [fr]: C'était absolument pas du tout ma tasse de thé depuis le début.
Caption 17 [en]: It was absolutely not my cup of tea at all from the beginning.

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Micro-Trottoirs - Macron, fais pas l'autruche !

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

After one year in power, President Macron has lost some of his popularity. Opinions are divided as to his performance, but most agree that he is a very shrewd ruler, for better or worse.

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Caption 72 [fr]: [Je] crois qu'il a la stratégie qui consiste à aller très, très vite au début de son mandat
Caption 72 [en]: [I] think he has the strategy that consists in going very, very fast at the beginning of his term

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Lionel - Le club de foot de Nancy - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to a highly regarded soccer club where the shadow of certain famous soccer players like Rouyer and Platini still hangs. The Nancy-Lorraine Soccer Club grooms high school boys into professional soccer players, endeavoring to strike a balance between academic and sporting achievements.

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Caption 43 [fr]: et en début de semaine, les après-midi aussi.
Caption 43 [en]: and early in the week, afternoons also.

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Le Figaro - Elle a banni le sucre pendant un an - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Danièle Gerkens, a journalist working for Elle magazine, decided to eliminate sugar from her diet for a year. She related her experience in her book Zéro Sucre, explaining that sugar is indeed an addiction, similar to a drug addiction. Are you ready to give up your sweet tooth?

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Caption 82 [fr]: Alors au début, d'abord c'est l'horreur.
Caption 82 [en]: So in the beginning, at first, it's a nightmare.

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Lionel - au club canin - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Jean-Pierre's canine club is a very structured environment, where both the dog owners and the dogs receive a membership card. And the dogs even receive a report card as well, just like children in school!

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Caption 96 [fr]: Ça arrive, une femelle...? -Au début, oui.
Caption 96 [en]: Does that happen, a female...? -In the beginning, yes.

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Lionel L - Loi travail: Suite et fin

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

A very unpopular labor law caused Parisians to protest near the Bastille before it was passed in 2015. President François Hollande invoked Article 49-3 of the Constitution to force this law through. The protests continued after the law was successfully enacted in 2016. For more information, you can visit the Nuit Debout and Convergence des Luttes websites.

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Caption 5 [fr]: fin deux mille quinze et début deux mille seize de...
Caption 5 [en]: the end of two thousand fifteen and the beginning of two thousand sixteen...

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