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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 3 [fr]: Quand les... le régiment de Carignan descendait... ici
Caption 3 [en]: When the... the regiment of Carignan came down... here

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 10

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

Quebec's current relationship with France is complex. French politicians tend to tread carefully regarding Quebec's sovereignty. For many years France adopted a policy of "neither indifference nor interference," a more neutral stance somewhere between a hands-off policy (which could be seen as complete abandonment) and an overly intrusive relationship. Sarkozy moved away from that policy, but his successor Hollande revived it.

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Caption 16 [fr]: Quand, euh... une grande entreprise comme Total,
Caption 16 [en]: When, uh... a big company like Total,

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Joanna - Son quartier

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Joanna is proud to show us her neighborhood. Follow her around her new apartment, her favorite bar, the pretty little garden where children love to play, and learn some useful everyday vocabulary.

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Caption 7 [fr]: Ça c'est super agréable quand il fait beau comme ça.
Caption 7 [en]: That's super nice when it's sunny out like this.

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Canada, France

In part 8 of Le Québec parle aux Français, Olivier discusses the cost of maintaining a high standard of living. Is France living beyond its means? Heavy taxation and full employment would go some way toward balancing the national budget and covering the cost of welfare programs.

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Caption 7 [fr]: parce que quand on a de... des dépenses comme... comme la France en a,
Caption 7 [en]: because when we have... expenses like... like France has,

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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 20 [fr]: c'est quand même quelque chose qui diffère, euh... pas mal de la France là-bas.
Caption 20 [en]: is something that actually differs, uh... quite a lot from France over there.

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 6

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

In part 6 of Le Québec parle aux Français, the interviewees compare and contrast the immigrant situation in France and Quebec. France, being a smaller country, creates additional pressure for immigrants, while in Quebec, immigrants do rather well. Later, Olivier treats us to a little song he wrote himself.

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Caption 16 [fr]: ont tendance à s'intégrer quand même au... au marché du travail.
Caption 16 [en]: still tend to be integrated into... into the workforce.

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 5

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada, France

French Canada is a cultural mosaic that is still exploring its identity. Some French Canadians feel more American than French, while others feel more of an allegiance to their French roots. Somehow, a Quebecois nation is emerging out of all this, but not without some growing pains.

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Caption 40 [fr]: Alors, quand on voit par exemple les musulmanes, là, les laisser avec des voiles,
Caption 40 [en]: So when we see, for example, Muslim women here, letting them wear the veils,

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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 5 [fr]: bon ça s'éloigne de plus en plus, mais on a quand même des gènes et le sang français,
Caption 5 [en]: well, it's more and more distant, but still we do have French genes and blood,

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 3

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada

The situation of the French language in Quebec is controversial and complex. Montreal was an English-speaking city until 1920, and it wasn't until the passage of Law 101 in 1977 that French became the official language of Quebec. According to some of the interviewees in this video, Québécois French is in a precarious position once again, with municipal signage and corporate names in Montreal reverting to English, as well as shopkeepers who refuse to speak French.

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Caption 16 [fr]: on se fait regarder avec mépris quand on demande:
Caption 16 [en]: we are looked at with contempt when we ask,

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada

In the second episode of Le Québec parle aux Français, we learn more about the complex relationship between the French and the Quebecois throughout history. We also learn about the evolution of the French language in Quebec—according to a former Prime Minister of Quebec, the province even "spoke French before France"!

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Caption 14 [fr]: cette... cette facilité. Mais y a quand même essentiellement que... tu sais quoi?
Caption 14 [en]: this... this opportunity. But there's still essentially that... you know what?

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Le Québec parle - aux Français - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

Canada

In the first episode of this documentary on Quebec, a young Frenchman shares his impressions on Canada. As the interviewees in the film demonstrate, the Quebecois have conflicting attitudes toward the French—some see them as "snobs," while others see them as just "polite."

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Caption 1 [fr]: Quand on quitte un endroit où on a habité, c'est un petit peu comme se déraciner.
Caption 1 [en]: When you leave a place where you lived, it's a little bit like being uprooted.

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TV8 Mont Blanc - Vide-greniers à Scionzier

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

A group of high school friends from the Haute-Savoie town of Scionzier are trying to stop the destruction of a small farm building they discovered and restored. One of their efforts is the organization of a community yard sale for the town.

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Caption 10 [fr]: Et puis quand on a appris au bout d'un mois et demi qu'ils allaient détruire...
Caption 10 [en]: And then when we learned at the end of a month and a half that they were going to destroy...

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Le Journal - Manuels scolaires

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Does your textbook ever seem more confusing than enlightening, more wrong than right? A recent study showed that some French textbooks could use a little fact-checking.

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Caption 2 [fr]: Seulement voilà, comment peut-on aider quand on ne comprend même pas l'exercice?
Caption 2 [en]: Only, how can you help when you don't even understand the exercise?

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Le Journal - L'enseignement du chinois au lycée

Difficulty: Beginner

France

The number of French students interested in studying Chinese has soared in French high schools in the last ten years. Though it is currently offered mostly by elite schools, the French government hopes to make it more accessible to all schools in years to come.

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Caption 18 [fr]: Quand on voit le boum économique de la Chine, je crois que ça peut être qu'utile. Pour...
Caption 18 [en]: When you see the economic boom of China, I think it can only be helpful. For...

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Le Journal - Le baccalauréat - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Like the SATs for Americans, or A level in the UK, the baccalauréat exam, or le bac, creates more than its fair share of stress in students, especially on the day when they find out the results, the culmination of an entire school career. Students meet outside the school where exam results are posted, and share the emotion of knowing whether they and their friends succeeded or not.

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Caption 13 [fr]: On a d'autant plus de fierté à avoir son bac quand on a été un cancre toute l'année.
Caption 13 [en]: One is all the more proud to have passed the "bac" when one has been a dunce all year long.

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