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Français avec Nelly - How to Speak Like Marie Antoinette - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In part 2, we learn more fascinating facts about Marie Antoinette's private life, as well as some of her famous quotes. Can you guess what her last words were?

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Caption 122 [fr]: Mais elle leur faisait la lecture.
Caption 122 [en]: But she read to them.

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Sophie et Patrice - Les madeleines

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Sophie shares her simple recipe for delicious, organic madeleines. Try it at home!

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Caption 27 [fr]: de la levure chimique... -Ouais.
Caption 27 [en]: baking powder... -Yeah.

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Lionel - Le Musée du sabotier - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Hilaire summarizes all the steps in the clog-making process. The Clog Museum has descriptions with models in relief for the blind and visually impaired.

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Caption 45 [fr]: La seule différence, c'est que c'est mesuré en centimètres.
Caption 45 [en]: The only difference is that it's measured in centimeters.

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Lionel - Le Musée du sabotier - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In part two on this series on the Clog Museum, we meet the last remaining clog maker in the village. And surprisingly, he isn't wearing clogs!

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Caption 54 [en]: that allows you to measure the wood, right?
Caption 54 [fr]: qui permet de mesurer le bois, hein.

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Giulia - Sa marque de bijoux 'Desidero'

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Giulia has been a jewelry maker since 2012, when she launched her Desidero brand. You can see and buy her creations in her boutique and studio located in Paris.

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Caption 43 [fr]: Et j'essaye dans la mesure du possible
Caption 43 [en]: And I try as much as possible

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Patrice Zana - L'artiste et ses inspirations - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Patrice Zana is a poet-artist inspired by the Dada movement and the concept of détournement (literally, "diversion," "hijacking"). He invented the term bris colisme to describe his practice, which employs fragmentation, collage, and wordplay in a variety of media.

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Caption 8 [fr]: "bris" comme "brisure" et "colisme" comme "collage".
Caption 8 [en]: "bris" as in "fragment" and "colisme" as in "collage."

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Le saviez-vous? - La Maison de l'Olive à Nice - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Learn all about olives with this olive merchant from Nice. This lovely store, "La Maison de l'Olive," has all kinds of olive delicacies from the region and across the Mediterranean basin. Did you know that the olive groves (oliveraies) in the Nice region were planted by the Greeks?

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Caption 35 [fr]: Ce sont d'ailleurs les mêmes oliveraies qu'on va retrouver en Ligure
Caption 35 [en]: These are incidentally the same olive groves that you'll find in Liguria

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Lionel L - Paris-Plage - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

During the summer, a portion of Paris reinvents itself as "Paris-Plage" [Paris Beach]. The capital turns into a vacation spot by providing water access and outdoor activities near the Seine and other waterways like the Canal de l'Ourcq.

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Caption 10 [fr]: qui mesure cent quatre-vingts mètres de long
Caption 10 [en]: that measures one hundred eighty meters long

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Lionel - Langue sous hypnose

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lionel speaks with Pascal, the director of the "Langue Sous Hypnose" (Language Under Hypnosis) school, who explains how hypnosis can help make language learning less daunting. Though Pascal says that "it's not hypnosis that teaches people languages, it's the teacher," he claims that hypnosis can make your brain more receptive to learning a new language.

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Caption 63 [fr]: et pourtant sa marge de surveillance sera en mesure de réagir.
Caption 63 [en]: and yet our monitoring margin will be able to respond.

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Voyage dans Paris - Cour de l'Industrie - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol visits Aline Putot, a renowned sculptor whose studio is located in the Cour de l'Industrie (Industry Courtyard), a revived artisan district in the eleventh arrondissement of Paris. Her craft requires very old tools, some dating from the nineteenth century, as well as more modern ones. Enjoy her beautiful creations!

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Caption 35 [fr]: C'est un compas qui permet de prendre une mesure et de changer la mesure du...
Caption 35 [en]: It's a compass that makes it possible to take a measurement and to change the measurement of...

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De nouvelles découvertes avec Marion - Le parc des Buttes Chaumont

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Marion walks us through the Buttes Chaumont, a former limestone quarry transformed into a magnificent park, complete with an artificial lake, a grotto, dramatic cliffs, and even a Roman-style temple. On a more tragic note, the park is also home to a bridge that the poet Louis Aragon once called a "mecca for suicides." Luckily, the bridge is now protected by a wire fence.

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Caption 32 [fr]: à mesure qu'il se déplace sans être jamais dérouté.
Caption 32 [en]: as he moves along without ever being disrupted.

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Farmer François - Le stand de légumes

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Canada

Feast your eyes on some of the finest organic produce Quebec has to offer! Farmer François shows us all the best of November’s fruits and vegetables — from the staples, like apples, potatoes, and garlic, to the less usual offerings, like black eggplant and kohlrabi.

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Caption 17 [en]: You can chop them like this. Leisurely... let's say that the heat
Caption 17 [fr]: Tu peux le trancher comme ça. Tranquillement... disons que la chaleur

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