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Lionel - à la Citadelle de Bitche - Part 4

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to a bakery, not the modern kind, but one located beneath the citadel of Bitche. The four giant ovens could each bake five hundred rations a day to feed up to two thousand soldiers!

Adrien - Le métro parisien

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Adrien will tell you everything about the Paris metro, which opened its doors in nineteen hundred for the World's Fair. It carries an impressive five million passengers per day and is one of the busiest underground systems in the world.

Le saviez-vous? - L'histoire de la dictée - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

France

It took two hundred years to standardize French spelling before it could be taught in schools using a method called la dictée (dictation), in which a student writes out the words he or she hears. As a matter of fact, this is the exact same principle behind Yabla's Scribe game!

Sophie et Patrice - Chiffres et nombres - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

France

Sometimes numbers like cent (hundred) and quatre-vingts (eighty) take an S at the end, but other times they don't. Others, like mille (thousand), never take one. Sophie and Patrice explain these and other rules of writing numbers in French in this video.

Voyage en France - Chantilly - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

In this video, Daniel shows us around the town of Chantilly, famous for its horse races and for its beloved Chantilly cream (also known as whipped cream). You'll get an inside look at the town's beautiful racetrack, which is home to over three hundred events each year.

De nouvelles découvertes avec Marion - Le canal Saint-Martin

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

France

Marion takes us along Paris's Canal Saint Martin, which is part of a waterway network that measures one hundred thirty kilometers long. In their heyday, the Parisian canals were the main means of transportation of goods and materials, and even drinking water! Nowadays, historic buildings, restaurants, and concert halls are the main attractions along the canals.

Lionel et Chantal - à Frémestroff

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Lionel introduces us to the tiny village of Frémestroff, which has three hundred seven inhabitants and is located twenty-five kilometers from the German border. It boasts one farm, one bakery, a woodworker, and a shepherd. Some of the older residents have a distinctive accent and still speak a dialect from the Lorraine that resembles German.

Ferme de la Croix de Pierre - Les lapins

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Have you ever wondered where the wool from your luxurious angora sweater comes from? At the Ferme de la Croix, a lovely lady breeds angora rabbits and goats on her farm. She explains the shearing process and how she cares for her pets. We learn that one rabbit can yield forty balls of angora wool every hundred days. That's a lot of sweaters!

Arles - Un Petit Tour d'Arles - Part 3

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

France

Arles is an interesting town to visit, well-known for its Roman amphitheater. At one point two hundred houses were hiding inside the arena itself.

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Sophie et Patrice - Cette année en Corse

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

France

Sophie and Patrice discuss the drought problems in Corsica. Sophie wishes she'd spent her summer vacation in the mountains instead!
Matches in Transcript
Caption 33 [en]: with winds of two hundred twenty-four kilometers an hour
Caption 33 [fr]: avec des vents de deux cent vingt-quatre kilomètres-heure

Français avec Nelly - Coco Chanel - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Nelly tells the fascinating life story of French fashion icon Coco Chanel, beginning with what led to her career as a designer.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 62 [en]: in nineteen hundred three
Caption 62 [fr]: en mille neuf cent trois

Français avec Nelly - "Demain, dès l'aube" par Victor Hugo - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Nelly recites and explains in great detail Victor Hugo's poem "Demain, dès l'aube" (Tomorrow, at Dawn). Though initially it might read like a love poem, it turns out to be much more tragic.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 20 [en]: He was born in nineteen [sic: eighteen] hundred two
Caption 20 [fr]: Il est né en mille neuf [sic : huit] cent deux

Sophie et Alexandre - Être acteur en 2025

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Sophie and Alexandre talk about their lives as actors, which is not as easy or glamorous as one might think. In order to receive benefits, casual workers in the entertainment industry have to work a total of 507 hours over a year, which is difficult when there isn't steady work.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 74 [en]: We have to do five hundred seven hours.
Caption 74 [fr]: On doit faire cinq cent sept heures.

Français avec Nelly - L'histoire de Notre-Dame de Paris - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

France

Nelly tells us how she witnessed a moment in history on the evening when Notre-Dame Cathedral was engulfed in flames as firefighters fought an epic battle to save this iconic monument.
Matches in Transcript
Caption 67 [en]: there were more than four hundred firefighters
Caption 67 [fr]: ils étaient plus de quatre cents pompiers

Français avec Nelly - Les top 100 adjectifs à connaître - Part 3

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

France

Nelly concludes her list of 100 essential adjectives. Once you master them all, you'll be a pro at describing things in French!
Matches in Transcript
Caption 91 [en]: We've seen a hundred indispensable adjectives for expressing yourself in French.
Caption 91 [fr]: On a vu cent adjectifs indispensables pour t'exprimer en français.
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