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Le saviez-vous? - Nice rit

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the wake of the recent tragedy on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice remains a beautiful and diverse city. In this video, Patricia talks about what makes the city such a great place to live and visit.

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Grand Lille TV - Clap de fin pour la maison dite hantée

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Making the news in Grand Lille is the end of an urban legend in the town of Villeneuve D'Ascq. A house that is supposedly haunted is being torn down, along with the stories and the rumors surrounding it. The demolition of the house is fairly uneventful, but will the legend live on?

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Simon et Marion - Les Restos du Cœur

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Marion explains to Simon what she does to help the homeless. She is a volunteer for an organization called Les Restos du Cœur (Restaurants of the Heart), which offers provisions to unhoused and food-insecure people.

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Caption 24 [en]: Even students no longer have the means to live. -[Right.] Wow.
Caption 24 [fr]: Même les étudiants n'ont plus les moyens de vivre. -[Voilà.] Waouh.

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Le saviez-vous? - Les anciennes lois insolites - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia takes a close look at some old French laws that are still on the books but no longer enforced. For example, it's technically forbidden to name one's pig "Napoleon."

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Caption 23 [en]: and I live on the second floor.
Caption 23 [fr]: et j'habite au deuxième étage.

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Sophie et Patrice - Les vieux à Paris

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Sophie and Patrice talk about growing old in Paris. They both agree that it's tough for the elderly in Paris and that they would rather spend their golden years somewhere else.

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Caption 24 [en]: there, I really wouldn't like to live there at all.
Caption 24 [fr]: là, j'aimerais vraiment pas du tout habiter là.

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Karen - Les huiles essentielles

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Karen is passionate about essential oils In this video she talks about some of her favorite ones and their therapeutic properties.

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Caption 2 [en]: I live in Paris.
Caption 2 [fr]: J'habite à Paris.

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Lionel L - La Place des Vosges

Difficulty: Intermediate

France Parisian

Lionel is in the Place des Vosges in Paris on a chilly June day. The square is busier than previous years due to a recent flood along the Seine. Parisians like to go out in the fresh air, bring a picnic, a bottle of wine, or simply work on their laptop in the many parks scattered around the city.

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Caption 16 [en]: is a park where the Parisians who live in the neighborhood come on Sunday
Caption 16 [fr]: est un parc où les Parisiens qui habitent dans le quartier viennent le dimanche

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Madame Monsieur - Mercy

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Madame Monsieur sings "Mercy," a song based on the true story of a baby girl who was born on board a Nigerian refugee ship. Her mother went into labor on her way to a refugee camp in Sicily.

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Caption 17 [en]: I'll live a hundred thousand years
Caption 17 [fr]: Je vivrai cent mille ans

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Demain - Trailer

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent, and their crew set out to discover how people are trying to make the world a better place. They travel to Reunion Island, Finland, Belgium, India, Great Britain, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden, and Iceland for their documentary Demain (Tomorrow).

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Caption 1 [en]: What world will our children live in in forty years?
Caption 1 [fr]: Dans quel monde vivront nos enfants dans quarante ans?

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Lionel L - La réforme du français

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel discusses the French Academy's latest spelling reform, which includes such modifications as removing the i in oignon (onion) and the circumflex in coût (cost). There's been a fair amount of backlash against the reform, though the changes are only recommended, not mandatory.

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Caption 7 [en]: Why are we live today from the French Academy?
Caption 7 [fr]: Pourquoi est-ce que nous sommes aujourd'hui en direct de l'Académie française?

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Festival du cinéma chinois - Coup d'envoi à Richelieu

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The town of Richelieu, named for the famous cardinal, organized a Chinese film festival. Already twinned with the Chinese town of Wuzhen, the town took an opportunity to celebrate both classic and newly released films from that country. The famous French director Claude Lelouch was the "godfather" of this initiative.

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Caption 37 [en]: I find that women have better understood the world in which we live.
Caption 37 [fr]: Je trouve que les femmes ont mieux compris le monde dans lequel on vit.

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Le saviez-vous? - Nice pleure

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

A terrible tragedy struck Nice on what should have been a celebration of Bastille Day, France's national holiday. A driver crashed his truck into a crowd of people who came to watch the fireworks on the famous Promenade des Anglais. The city is in mourning, but the people of Nice are determined not to be defeated by this tragedy.

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Caption 9 [en]: I live in Antibes, twenty kilometers away from Nice.
Caption 9 [fr]: Je vis à Antibes à vingt kilomètres de Nice.

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Lionel L - Le Canard enchaîné

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

According to Lionel, we hear far too much about Charlie Hebdo and not enough about Le Canard Enchaîné, which is about to celebrate its centenary in 2016. This quality satirical newspaper is in a similar vein to Charlie Hebdo. Both papers even shared the same cartoonist, Cabu, who sadly did not survive the January attack on Charlie Hebdo. Le Canard Enchaîné was no stranger to extremist threats either.

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Caption 5 [en]: when the news gets the upper hand over, uh... everything that we live through every day a little bit,
Caption 5 [fr]: quand l'actualité prend le dessus sur, euh... un petit peu tout ce que nous vivons au quotidien

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Lionel - à la brocante

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to an Alsace flea market and unearths some shopping gems: old vintage postcards painted by a student of Picasso, a set of tires, a few saucepans, and a makeup kit that he buys for his four-and-a-half-year-old daughter, or so he claims...

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Caption 31 [en]: and who went back... to live in the United States. And his son came back to live here, in Sarre-Union, in Alsace.
Caption 31 [fr]: et qui est reparti... vivre aux États-Unis. Et son fils est revenu habiter là, à Sarre-Union, en Alsace.

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Cap 24 - Les cyclistes parisiens sont-ils indisciplinés ?

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

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Rumor has it that Parisians bicyclists are undisciplined. Is this true? Allessandro Di Sarno is out on the streets of Paris to find out for himself and carries out his own humorous inquiry...

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Caption 54 [en]: So long live the bike! But go easy!
Caption 54 [fr]: Alors vive le vélo! Mais allez-y mollo!

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