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L'Obs - Quelles sont les armes de la médecine contre le coronavirus ?

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Scientists around the world are working together to combat the coronavirus. With the help of big data and artificial intelligence, research should yield results more quickly.

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Grand Lille TV - Lille contre le massacre en Syrie

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Martine Aubry, the mayor of Lille, is part of a vast citizen mobilization to stop the massacres in Syria. Aubry's deputy director of human rights reflects on the mayor's speech during an official ceremony at the Lille city hall.

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Lionel & Lahlou - Être musulman - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lahlou nous parle de la vie quotidienne d'un mulsulman, sa religion. Il parle des heures de prière, de la mosquée. Il n'a rien contre les autres religions, au contraire. Pour lui, vivre en paix est ce qu'il y a de plus important.

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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 43 [fr]: Par contre, du côté des petites voitures,
Caption 43 [en]: On the other hand, when it comes to small cars,

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Sophie et Patrice - La pollution

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Sophie and Patrice discuss the pollution problem in Paris. Although efforts have been made to keep cars out of the city center, there's still much to improve. Cars still clog the freeways outside Paris.

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Caption 58 [fr]: qui sont contre, qui sont contre, euh...
Caption 58 [en]: who are against, who are against, uh...

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Le Mans TV - Youssef Ben Amar, un rappeur engagé en politique

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Youssef Ben Amar is a rapper and political activist who is running for office in the fourth legislative district of the Sarthe department. He shares his views and urges people to take an interest in politics, which he believes is something that all people do every day.

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Caption 12 [fr]: Euh... par contre on...
Caption 12 [en]: Uh... on the other hand, we...

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mon père s'oppose à ma passion - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Clara is a step closer to her dream of becoming a dancer. Roger, the homeless man she met earlier, knows a dance teacher who is willing to give her free lessons. But first she will need to bring a signed parental authorization...

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Caption 16 [fr]: Par contre, je suis venu pour vous demander un petit service.
Caption 16 [en]: However, I came to ask you a small favor.

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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 14 [fr]: se sont mobilisées contre ce texte de loi.
Caption 14 [en]: were mobilized against this legislation.

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Micro-Trottoirs - Brexit

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In this episode of Micro-Trottoirs, people are asked what they think of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. Their opinions run the gamut: some of them agree with the UK's decision, while others believe it will have catastrophic consequences.

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Caption 36 [fr]: Je serais contre. Bien sûr, je serais contre. Je suis profondément européenne.
Caption 36 [en]: I would be against. Of course, I would be against. I am profoundly European.

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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 12 [fr]: Par contre on a aussi des choses comme l'arroche que vous voyez là.
Caption 12 [en]: However, we also have things like the orache that you see there.

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Micro-Trottoirs - Rêves d’enfants

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In this Micro-Trottoirs episode, people on the street reveal what they wanted to be when they grow up. From fireman to fairy, find out who actually fullfilled their childhood dream.

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Caption 66 [fr]: Chanteuse, mais je chanterai pas, par contre. -Mais... mais tu chantes là?
Caption 66 [en]: Singer, but I won't sing, however. -But... but you sing now?

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 11

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

Oliver concludes this eleven-part series with a visit to Fort Chambry, where French and British armies fought over new Canadian territories. How did this affect the present? Olivier leaves us to draw our own conclusions and assures us that he is fond of the Québécois as much as they are fond of him. He shares his final impressions of Quebec in a lovely song at the end.

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Caption 5 [fr]: aller se venger, par exemple, contre les Iroquois...
Caption 5 [en]: to go retaliate, for example, against the Iroquois...

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Manif de la semaine - Anti pub, Anti écran

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In a convivial atmosphere, complete with brass bands and good humor, Parisians gather in the streets to have fun and raise awareness about the proliferation of electronic adverstising in the subways. A new citizen movement is spreading throughout France: anyone can join the ranks of "Les Reposeurs" [Redecorators], a group of protesters armed with kraft paper, markers, and whiteboard paint to write anti-advertising messages on posters and billboards.

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Caption 3 [fr]: Et c'est le rendez-vous, euh... de plusieurs collectifs qui luttent contre la publicité
Caption 3 [en]: And it's the gathering, uh... of several groups that are fighting against advertising

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

One might think that the push to remove anglicisms from the French language would be stronger in France, but the larger movement to "purify" French is actually happening in Quebec. Many Québécois worry that the French language is endangered in Canada, and the Quebec government has taken measures to preserve it by inventing new words instead of borrowing from English. That's why an email is still un email in France, but un courriel in Quebec.

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Caption 34 [fr]: Mais ce que j'aime pas par contre, c'est un commentaire qu'on reçoit parfois
Caption 34 [en]: But what I don't like, however, is a comment we get sometimes

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Actus Quartier - Manif anti-nucléaire à Bastille

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Did you know that France is the most nuclear-dependent country in the world? These protesters are trying to change that statistic in their demonstration against nuclear energy in Paris's Place de la Bastille.

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Caption 8 [fr]: Vous êtes pour ou contre le nucléaire, vous?
Caption 8 [en]: Are you for or against nuclear power, you?

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