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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Episode nine of this series focuses on Galileo, a prolific inventor and scientist. He discovered the principle of the simple pendulum motion, very useful in the measure of time and later in the making of clocks.

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this video, a young Galileo gets one of his first revolutionary ideas on how to measure time. Pretty impressive for a fourteen-year-old, huh?

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Télévision Bretagne Ouest - Abbaye du Relec : Immersion dans un potager du Moyen Âge

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Have you ever eaten an orache or a cardoon? Though popular in the Middle Ages, these vegetables are rarely harvested nowadays. But you'll find them in the garden of the Abbaye du Relec (Relec Abbey) in Brittany, which contains vegetables from many different time periods and countries.

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Caption 50 [fr]: et puis dans une moindre mesure le navet, la betterave, et cetera.
Caption 50 [en]: and then to a lesser extent the turnip, the beet, et cetera.

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Télévision Bretagne Ouest - Découvrir des épaves au Musée sous-marin de Lorient

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Underwater Museum of Lorient might be a little hard to get to, given that it's literally underwater. Dedicated to shipwrecks and other sunken objects, the museum is made possible by a team of volunteers with a passion for documenting these lost treasures at the bottom of the ocean.

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Caption 14 [fr]: une équipe d'intervention sous-marine qui va être en mesure de faire, euh...
Caption 14 [en]: an underwater intervention team that will be in a position to take, uh...

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In part four of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo, now a reputable scholar at the University of Padua, proceeds to make a telescope out of lenses with the help of his instrument maker, Marc'Antonio. In this cartoon, an attempt is made to explain Galileo's discoveries.

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Caption 2 [en]: which will enable us to measure the acceleration of time.
Caption 2 [fr]: ce qui permettra de mesurer l'accélération du temps.

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Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Maestro explains how the revolutionary ideas of the early discoverers, which we now take for granted, were not always well received. Before Galileo, for example, everyone believed that the sun and all the other planets revolved around the earth!

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Caption 8 [en]: They sought to measure time that gives the hour
Caption 8 [fr]: Ils ont cherché à mesurer le temps qui donne l'heure

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Le Journal - La grippe aviaire - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Five of the nine districts of Lyon, the second largest French city, are being monitored for the H5N1 virus, better known as “Bird Flu”.

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Caption 23 [fr]: Une mesure de prévention avant tout,
Caption 23 [en]: Above all a preventive measure,

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Le Journal - Grands prématurés

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Being born premature is risky, but thanks to modern medical techniques, six out of ten babies who are born greatly premature will grow up to be perfectly healthy children.

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Caption 18 [fr]: et puis l'acquisition de la lecture, de l'écriture, tous ces...
Caption 18 [en]: and also the learning of reading, of writing, all these...

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