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Alphabétisation - des filles au Sénégal

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The actress Aïssa Maïga talks about her work for UNESCO, which has partnered with Always to promote literacy among women and girls in Senegal and other countries.

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Lionel L - Nuit Debout - Journée internationale - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel L introduces a new social phenomenon called "Nuit Debout" ("Up All Night" or "Rise Up Night"). It's a protest movement born from a general discontent regarding politics, labor laws, and other issues. At 6 p.m. every day, people take to the streets of Paris to discuss ideas and air their grievances. The movement is gathering momentum in other cities and countries as well.

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Télésonne - Micro-trottoir : Les revendications des femmes

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Dans cette vidéo "micro-trottoir" les femmes sont interviewées dans la rue pour parler de leur revendications. En général, ces femmes réclament plus d’égalité entre hommes et femmes. Écoutez ce qu'elles ont à dire et jugez vous-même!

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Le Journal - La Coupe du Monde - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

During the 2006 World Cup, and despite criticism from several right-wing politicians, footballers Lilian Thuram and Patrick Vieira invited eighty former squatters from Cachan to see the France-Italy match.

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Le Journal - Passer le permis de conduire

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Another protest on the streets of Paris: this one about the difficulties of obtaining a driving permit. The steep price of a permit is currently about 1200 € in France, and candidates must face long waits of several months or more just to take the test. Increasing the number of driving inspectors would help both to lessen these delays and lower costs.

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Le Monde - SUV à Paris: faut-il en finir avec les grosses voitures? - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the last thirty years, cars have become heavier and larger. This alarming trend has been addressed by European authorities, who have imposed new measures to curb pollution. But are these measures actually working?

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Caption 28 [en]: The alert level has been reached several times.
Caption 28 [fr]: La cote d'alerte a été atteinte plusieurs fois.

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Sophie et Patrice - Les hymnes

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Sophie tells Patrice about the mistake that France made during the France-Albania soccer match in 2019, when they played the wrong national anthem.

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Caption 21 [fr]: Que les hymnes en général sont des chants de guerre.
Caption 21 [en]: That national anthems in general are war songs.

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Nader Fakhry - L'école pour tous

Difficulty: Intermediate

Côte d'Ivoire, France

The Orange Foundation funded a new school near Abidjan in Ivory Coast. The children and their parents are very happy that the school was built right in their village and that education is now more accessible to them.

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Caption 12 [en]: there are several children.
Caption 12 [fr]: il y a plusieurs enfants.

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Le Monde - L’astrologie fonctionne-t-elle ?

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This video from Le Monde explores the popular and scientific views of astrology. After a brief description of how birth charts are created, the video asks whether astrology "works" at all.

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Caption 101 [en]: several scientific experiments
Caption 101 [fr]: plusieurs expériences scientifiques, elles,

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France 24 - Quels sont les pouvoirs du président de la République ?

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this educational video, you will learn about the powers of the French president, which were redefined at the behest of Charles de Gaulle in 1958.

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Caption 8 [fr]: le général de Gaulle se taille un rôle à la hauteur de ses ambitions.
Caption 8 [en]: General de Gaulle fashions for himself a role worthy of his ambitions.

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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 18 [fr]: c'est une bonne idée pour le cinéma en général.
Caption 18 [en]: it's a good idea for cinema in general.

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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 2 [en]: that saw several journalists and members of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper
Caption 2 [fr]: qui a vu quelques journalistes et des membres du journal Charlie Hebdo

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Télé Lyon Métropole - Invasion de zombie à Lyon!

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Zombies from many different eras have invaded Lyon! That is, zombie enthusiasts with impressive makeup and costumes have invaded. The ninth-annual Zombie Walk has attracted around a thousand of the undead to roam across the city under the theme "a return to the past."

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Caption 15 [en]: It's been several years since I first heard about it.
Caption 15 [fr]: Ça faisait plusieurs années que j'en entendais parler.

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JT - Douane: vigilance sur terre, en mer et dans les airs

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

French customs coast guards don't miss much, whether it's a freighter carrying drug traffickers or just a casual sailboat. But their main goal is to keep their country's waters pollution-free.

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Caption 16 [en]: a general monitoring of maritime traffic,
Caption 16 [fr]: une surveillance générale du trafic maritime,

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Le Journal - La Coupe du Monde - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This news report follows up on the squatters in Cachan, who receive good news from the mayor: after six weeks spent in a gymnasium, they're being relocated to a hostel with real accommodations.

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Caption 11 [en]: The agreement was signed last night after several hours of negotiation.
Caption 11 [fr]: L'accord a été signé cette nuit après plusieurs heures de négociations.

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