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Interviews à Central Park - Discussion politique

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Nous voilà de retour à “Central Park”! Cette fois, les adolescentes françaises Barbara et Lorraine discutent de politique, y compris de la récente polémique sur le Contrat première embauche et du Président Nicolas Sarkozy. (On l’aime ou on le laisse tomber? Les filles ne sont pas tout à fait d’accord…)

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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 20 [fr]: Euh... voilà, on travaille la communication,
Caption 20 [en]: Uh... right, we work on communication,

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TV Tours - Défendre les fromages au lait cru

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The French love their cheese, and as this video demonstrates, their appreciation begins at a young age. In the Touraine region, a group of students taste an incredible variety of raw milk cheeses from the area and learn about the ways in which they differ from their "industrial" imitations. Who says that kids can't have refined palates?

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Caption 17 [fr]: Enfin voilà, ça dépend... des fois.
Caption 17 [en]: That's it, it depends... sometimes.

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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 22 [fr]: Voilà. -Merci!
Caption 22 [en]: There you are. -Thanks!

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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 40 [fr]: Et voilà! -Au Québec! -Et voilà, au Québec! -Alors qu'est-ce que vous pensez des...
Caption 40 [en]: And there you are! -To Quebec! -There you are, to Quebec! -So what do you think of...

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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 32 [fr]: qui n'est pas une langue facile. Voilà!
Caption 32 [en]: which is not an easy language. There you have it!

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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 24 [fr]: voilà, que... de nous réunir tous ensemble pour créer un projet.
Caption 24 [en]: that's it, that… to gather all of us together to create a project.

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Joanna - Son appartement

Difficulty: Newbie

France

Joanna shows us her tiny but surprisingly compact apartment. Her kitchen fits in a cupboard, and she has to climb a ladder to her cozy bedroom.

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Caption 3 [fr]: Je dois ouvrir une deuxième porte... bien lourde. Voilà.
Caption 3 [en]: I have to open a second door... quite heavy. There.

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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 7 [fr]: Et avant en fait, j'habitais à Bordeaux. Voilà. -D'accord.
Caption 7 [en]: And before that, actually, I lived in Bordeaux. There you are. -OK.

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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 - 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 17 [fr]: Elle a son bac et on a eu très peur, donc voilà. On est très, très contentes.
Caption 17 [en]: She passed and we were very scared, so there you are. We're very, very happy.

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Le Journal - Baisers interdits dans les couloirs!

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

As a gift to journalists looking for a tongue-in-cheek story, French schools have banned kissing. Students ask, “Where’s the harm?”

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Caption 5 [fr]: On travaille, alors voilà, on est dans notre cours et tout,
Caption 5 [en]: We work, so you see, we're in our class and everything,

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