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Interviews à Central Park - Discussion politique

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We’re back in Central Park! This time, French teens Barbara and Lorraine discuss politics, including the recent controversial Contrat Première Embauche and President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Love him or leave him? The girls don’t quite agree…)

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Caption 2 [fr]: J'habite à côté de Paris en banlieue parisienne.
Caption 2 [en]: I live right near Paris in a Parisian suburb.

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Neïmo - Interview de Neïmo

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

From Scratch is not only the name of Neïmo’s first album, it also sums up their ethos. Original and full of energy, Neïmo is a distinctive part of a rock and roll trend: made in France but sung in English! According to the band, rock and roll is best done in its original language. Hear about how they mix their inspirations and influences with their innovation.

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Caption 42 [fr]: À bientôt, à bientôt à Paris.
Caption 42 [en]: See you soon, see you soon in Paris.

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Le Journal - Sarkozy en Afrique du Sud - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

On the final leg of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to South Africa, the leader meets with Nelson Mandela (after visiting the cell where Mandela was imprisoned for twenty-seven years), and speaks about the importance of being a uniter—not a divider.

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Caption 7 [fr]: Avant de rentrer à Paris,
Caption 7 [en]: Before returning to Paris,

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French Punk - Frustration

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Rock and roll, garage, hard-core, street punk — from Black Flag to Agnostic Front to Crisis, Frustration isn’t just a sentiment, it’s a way of life! With Frustration, “Your life will be sadder, but it’ll be more lucid.”

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Caption 4 [fr]: On est une bande d'amis sur Paris depuis quinze ou vingt ans.
Caption 4 [en]: We are a bunch of friends based in Paris for the past fifteen or twenty years.

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Disiz la Peste - Dans tes rêves - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Celebrated French rapper Disiz La Peste (Dis Is The Plague) began his acting career in Dans tes rêves (In Your Dreams), a film that relates the story of a young rapper trying to make his way in the music industry.

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Caption 34 [fr]: J'étais dans le train pour Paris, je rêvais à travers la vitre
Caption 34 [en]: I was on the train to Paris, I dreamed through the window

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Amadou et Mariam - Sénégal Fast Food - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

Senegal

Amadou and Mariam share singing duties with co-producer Manu Chao on a song with themes of migration and dislocation.

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Caption 3 [fr]: Cinéma Le Paris, demain je serai parti
Caption 3 [en]: The Paris Cinema, tomorrow I'll be gone

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Le Journal - Manifestations des lycéens - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

All over France, students are protesting the loi Fillon, which they feel does not best represent the interests of students and their schools.

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Caption 2 [fr]: à Paris, les lycéens étaient deux fois moins nombreux,
Caption 2 [en]: in Paris, the high school students were half as many [as before],

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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 6 [fr]: À Bordeaux ou à Paris, on ne sait plus si l'on pleure d'échec ou de victoire.
Caption 6 [en]: In Bordeaux or in Paris, you can't tell whether they're crying from failure or from victory.

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Mario Canonge - Ses propos - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Martinique

Mario Canonge is one of the most exciting pianists tickling today’s plastic ivories, and Yabla was lucky enough to have caught him in person.

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Caption 13 [fr]: et je vis maintenant à Paris depuis vingt-cinq ans.
Caption 13 [en]: and I have been living in Paris for twenty-five years now.

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Le Journal - Trop de pub dans la boîte à lettres

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Many French people claim they don’t like receiving junk mail, but marketers have done studies which indicate the opposite.

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Caption 4 [fr]: Sur Paris quand c'est très groupé comme ça, on peut en passer trois mille cinq cents à peu près.
Caption 4 [en]: In Paris when it's tightly packed like this, you can give out about three thousand five hundred.

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Le Journal - Les Restos du Cœur

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In 1985, ten million meals were served by Restos du Cœur. By 2004, that number had skyrocketed to sixty million.

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Caption 10 [fr]: Cinq sites répartis sur Paris, plus deux camionnettes mobiles.
Caption 10 [en]: Five sites spread throughout Paris, plus two mobile vans.

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Le Journal - Un sportif handicapé

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Tanguy de la Forest is ready to fly off to the Paralympic Games.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Sur la route de l'aéroport, dimanche douze septembre deux mille quatre à Paris.
Caption 1 [en]: On the road to the airport, Sunday, September twelfth, two thousand four, in Paris.

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Le Journal - Nouveaux artistes pluriculturels

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Newcomers Kader Belarbi and Loumia Hiridjee are bringing fresh blood and talent to the French cultural and commercial landscape.

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Caption 4 [fr]: devenu danseur étoile à l'Opéra de Paris.
Caption 4 [en]: now principal dancer at the Paris Opera.

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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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Caption 1 [en]: Patrick Le Proust participated in the demonstration for the handicapped of France in Paris this afternoon.
Caption 1 [fr]: Patrick Le Proust était de la manifestation parisienne des paralysés de France cet après-midi.

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Le Journal - Milady

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Three Musketeers is one of the greatest tales of brotherhoood in the Western canon, but this new movie from José Daillant shifts the focus to a female character, Milady, the story’s femme fatale. Look for the lovely and inimitable Arielle Dombasle in the starring role.

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Caption 5 [en]: that José Daillant is now shooting in the Paris area.
Caption 5 [fr]: que José Daillant tourne en ce moment en région parisienne.

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