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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 5

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

Le Canada est une mosaïque de culture, un vrai bouillon de culture qui déborde quelque fois... Le gouvernement essaie de promouvoir l'harmonie. On parle même de la création d'une nouvelle nationalité québécoise.

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TV8 Mont Blanc - Vide-greniers à Scionzier

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Des jeunes d'une commune de Haute-Savoie s'organisent pour lutter contre la destruction d'un mazot qu'ils ont découvert et décidé de restaurer. Ils ne s'arrêtent pas là mais en profitent pour initier plus d'activités parmi les habitants de Scionzier.

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Grand Lille TV - Des animaux pour égayer le quotidien des enfants handicapés

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Meet Françoise, a social worker specializing in animal mediation. She visits children with developmental disabilities and introduces them to her four-legged friends. Health management students Noémie and Clémence work alongside Françoise and enjoy seeing the children flourish.

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Caption 47 [en]: they're already certain about their future.
Caption 47 [fr]: elles sont déjà sûres de leur avenir.

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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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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 7

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

In part seven of this series on Quebec, Olivier focuses on something that is dear to the hearts of many Québécois: the majestic Saint Lawrence River. He also explores their relationship with money and the way they conduct business. Olivier asks whether it's easier to do business in Quebec or in France. Quebec, it seems, offers more opportunities for companies, with fewer regulations and restrictions, while France remains a very productive country despite the thirty-five-hour workweek.

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Caption 74 [fr]: mais qui finissent par coûter très cher.
Caption 74 [en]: but that end up being very costly.

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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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Caroline - et L'Express

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Caroline is an international business student with an interest in journalism. In this video, she talks to us about one of her school projects, which involved writing a supplement for the French magazine L'Express.

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Caption 27 [fr]: La partie culture, donc des personnes qui sont, euh... très dynamiques dans le monde culturel.
Caption 27 [en]: The culture section, so people who are, uh... very dynamic in the cultural world.

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Yabla à Nancy - Université Nancy 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The French equivalent of ESL (English as a Second Language) is known as FLE (Français langue étrangère, or "French as a Foreign Language"). FLE is what you're learning right now, and it's what one of the women in this video is learning to teach.

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Caption 6 [fr]: D'accord. -Et, euh... avant j'étais par contre à Strasbourg pour faire ma licence.
Caption 6 [en]: OK. -And, uh... before, however, I was in Strasbourg getting my bachelor's degree.

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Interviews à Central Park - Discussion politique

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We’re back in Central Park! This time, French teens Barbara and Lorraine discuss politics, including the recent controversial Contrat Première Embauche and President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Love him or leave him? The girls don’t quite agree…)

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Caption 31 [fr]: qui ont manifesté contre cette loi,
Caption 31 [en]: who protested against this law,

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Le Journal - Le bac

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Students taking the baccalaureate exam must complete an essay, choosing amongst several possible philosophical and political themes. France 2 talks with some students about the experience, and asks some prominent politicians what they might have written if presented with the same task.

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Caption 51 [en]: to make the right choices for their future.
Caption 51 [fr]: de manière à faire les bons choix pour leur avenir.

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