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Voyage en France (45 episodes 101 videos)

Explore the hidden (and not so hidden) corners of France with master tour guide Daniel Benchimol.

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Mère & Fille - Les goûts et les couleurs

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Isabelle rapporte une horreur en cadeau pour sa fille de son voyage en Mongolie. Devinez ce que c'est? Et comment Barbara va-t-elle réussir à s'en débarrasser sans faire de peine à sa mère?

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Mère & Fille - Les vacances

Difficulty: Advanced

France

What happens when Isabelle doesn't want to part with her daughter when she goes on a school trip? Find out in this hilarious episode of Mère & Fille.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

"What I want is to travel and see something else other than your face, your cabbages, your carrots, and your turnips!" Sylvette shouts at her husband René, who recently retired. She dreams of travelin...

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Claudine Thibout Pivert - 2ème Salon du livre et des vieux papiers Mazamet

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Claudine Thibout Pivert, a prolific poet, musician, and artist, talks about her latest books and the source of her inspiration, her childhood spent in the beautiful Anjou region of France.

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Le Journal - Manifestation de paralysés

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Public transport has not always been easy for those who use wheelchairs, but the SNCF (French National Railway Company) has been making changes that make for a much more pleasant trip.

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Mère & Fille - Le dentiste

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Barbara doesn't seem to enjoy her dentist's lame jokes until...the joke is on her mother!

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Mère & Fille - Danse pas si classique

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Barbara wants to give up her classical dance classes because her new teacher is really awful. How will she convince her mother? Isabelle is about to find out the hard way... Make sure you watch until ...

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À l'audience: Détournement d'argent dans le couple ? - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Xavier Plot maintains that he threw his back out before the planned trip to Normandy and that he didn't sell his apartment to his mistress. Who will the judge believe?

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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 1 [fr]: En France y a... y a des problèmes sérieux qui sont dus, euh...
Caption 1 [en]: In France there are... there are some serious problems that are due, uh...

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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 39 [fr]: Je dirais que... inconsciemment en France on la maltraite par snobisme
Caption 39 [en]: I would say that... in France they unconsciously mistreat it [the language] by snobbery,

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Le saviez-vous? - La pratique de dessin de Maxime Duveau

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Maxime Duveau explains his art at his solo exhibition, which is based on photographs he took in San Fransciso and Los Angeles. He uses an interesting charcoal drawing technique he calls "masking."

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Caption 46 [fr]: autour du dessin et de ce voyage en... en Californie
Caption 46 [en]: around drawing and this trip to... to California

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Louise begs Edna to try to make Sylvette jealous enough so that she will go back to her husband René. Edna, posing as René's new girlfriend Annette, agrees to confront Sylvette to tell her that she's in love with him.

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Caption 70 [fr]: et bon voyage en Australie.
Caption 70 [en]: and have a nice trip to Australia.

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Micro-Trottoirs - Un rêve récurrent?

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

A reporter interviews people on the street about their dreams. The interviewees candidly share their dreams, from the classic chase nightmares to voluptuous dreams of skinny dipping in a fountain of chocolate.

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Caption 11 [fr]: Et je rêve que je dois partir en voyage,
Caption 11 [en]: And I dream that I have to go on a trip,

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Babylon Circus - J'aurais bien voulu

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Babylon Circus, a ska band from Lyon, sings in this song about romantic regrets, missed cues, and lost opportunities. “J’aurais bien voulu” could well be translated as “Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”

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Caption 9 [fr]: J'aurais bien voulu t'enlever en voyage
Caption 9 [en]: I really would have liked to take you away on a trip

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