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Le Monde - Pourquoi les rues ne portent quasiment jamais de noms de femmes ?

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Why are there so few streets named after women? The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, decided to change the street-naming regulations to include women's names. Some say that it's far from sufficient, but it's a start!

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Radio-Canada Info - Comment détecter le coronavirus

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Canada

This news clip explains how Québec is preparing for the coronavirus. Testing has come a long way since the SARS outbreak in 2003.

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Caption 40 [fr]: La femme, qui habite Chicago,
Caption 40 [en]: The woman, who lives in Chicago,

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Dao Evolution - Noël pour les sans-abris

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Christmas is a time of celebrations and a showing of goodwill. This young man followed his heart and started giving out small gifts to the homeless. Find out what prompted him to do so at the end of this video.

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Caption 52 [fr]: Il a même réveillé sa femme qui dormait.
Caption 52 [en]: He even woke up his wife, who was sleeping.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mon père s'oppose à ma passion - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Clara and Roger's persistence paid off. She passed her entrance examination to the sports-studies program. But first, she had to confront her father with the truth.

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Caption 24 [fr]: Une lettre de votre femme deux jours avant sa mort pour Clara.
Caption 24 [en]: A letter from your wife for Clara two days before her death.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mon père s'oppose à ma passion - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In part one of "My Father Opposes My Passion," we learn the source of the conflict between a teenage girl, Clara, and her father. She dreams of becoming of dancer, but he is totally opposed to her plans. A chance encounter with a homeless man is about to change her life.

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Caption 54 [fr]: Il a perdu sa femme, la mère de Clara,
Caption 54 [en]: He lost his wife, Clara's mother,

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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 75 [fr]: J'ai été prof d'anglais pendant huit ans. -Vous êtes une femme comblée quelque part, vous êtes...
Caption 75 [en]: I was an English teacher for eight years. -You are a fulfilled woman in many ways, you are...

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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 24 [fr]: Aussi qu'on utilise... euh... des images, par exemple, l'image de la femme,
Caption 24 [en]: Also that they use, uh... images, for example, images of women,

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Actu Vingtième - Le Repas des anciens

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Who says that old people don’t know how to party? This event, organized by a local Lions Club, brought together a number of senior citizens for a day of dancing, schmoozing, and even romance.

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Caption 79 [fr]: parce que jamais une femme dans ma vie ne m'a regardé avec des yeux d'amour,
Caption 79 [en]: because no woman in my life had ever looked at me with eyes of love,

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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 2 [fr]: Mais c'est une femme profondément meurtrie,
Caption 2 [en]: But she's a deeply wounded woman,

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Le Journal - Marianne

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Marianne is the symbol of the French Republic and has roots in the revolution of 1789. But are French mayors ready to represent the France of today with a Marianne of color?

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Caption 6 [fr]: Et si la prochaine représentait une femme de couleur?
Caption 6 [en]: What if the next one represented a woman of color?

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