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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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Télésonne - Micro-trottoir : Les revendications des femmes

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

When asked about their demands as French citizens, most of the women interviewed in this video call for more gender equality in the workplace and in everyday life. One of the women also stresses the importance of going beyond symbolic celebrations of women's rights (like International Women's Day) toward more concrete political activism.

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Le Journal - Sexualité des femmes

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Whether heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, “jouets intimes”-sexual, or sexagenarian, women affirm that sexuality is not just for men.

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Manif du Mois - Sages-femmes en colère!

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Les sages-femmes sont en colère! C'est à leur tour de manifester. Tout en souriant, elles revendiquent de meilleures conditions de travail, notamment, une sage-femme par femme enceinte.

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Le Journal - Sans domicile fixe

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

L’absence de domicile est difficile pour n’importe qui, mais pour une femme les dangers peuvent être plus intenses et les expériences même plus aliénantes que pour les hommes.

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Nouveaux Talents? - Sarkozy au revoir!

Difficulty: Newbie

France

Écoutez cette petite ritournelle sur le Président Nicolas Sarkozy que chante cette jeune femme au cours de la manifestation à Paris des sans-papiers, sans-logement, sans-école.

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Le saviez-vous? - Les anciennes lois insolites - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia has unearthed some very interesting, obscure French laws. For example: "Any woman wishing to dress like a man must request permission from the police department." Thankfully, no one obeys these antiquated laws!

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Caption 19 [fr]: Toute femme souhaitant s'habiller en homme
Caption 19 [en]: Any woman wishing to dress like a man

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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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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 30 [fr]: Le fil rouge de tous ces films: la femme,
Caption 30 [en]: The red thread [common theme] of all these films: women,

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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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Télésonne - Micro-trottoir : Nuisance dans les transports

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Regular bus riders from the Essonne, a suburb south of Paris, share their views on public transport. It appears that some people behave badly on buses and in the subway, which can give tourists a bad impression. So the next time you catch a bus, don't forget to give up your seat for the elderly!

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Caption 5 [fr]: Qu'on se lève pas quand, euh... on voit une femme enceinte par exemple.
Caption 5 [en]: That people don't stand up when, uh... they see a pregnant woman, for example.

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