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Voyage en France - Barbizon

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol takes us through the village of Barbizon, which has served as an inspiration to numerous artists and writers since the mid-1800s. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Robert Louis Stephenson are just a few of the many people who have fallen in love with this charming town.

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Caption 6 [fr]: avec des toiles comme celle-ci, Les moissons [sic: Moisson] de Charles-François Daubigny.
Caption 6 [en]: with some paintings like this one, Harvests [sic: Harvest] by Charles-François Daubigny.

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Margaux et Manon - Conjugaison du verbe faire

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Our charming teachers, Margaux and Manon, will inflict the verb "faire" on you. They did their best to make this grammar lesson on conjugation relatively painless.

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Caption 5 [fr]: Le verbe "faire" vient du latin comme de nombreux mots de la langue française.
Caption 5 [en]: The verb "faire" comes from Latin, like many words in the French language.

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 7

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Vespuccia or America? In the last episode of this fun cartoon, we find out how the name of the new continent now known as "America" came about.

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Caption 13 [fr]: Comme ça, on pourra les manger!
Caption 13 [en]: That way we'll be able to eat them!

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TV Tours - Une seconde vie pour vos sapins de Noël?

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This nurseryman from Cinq-Mars-la-Pile urges Christmas tree buyers to do the right thing: buy a root balled tree so that it can be replanted the following year!

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Caption 11 [fr]: Je voulais un sapin avec sa terre, comme ça, euh... je peux le voir, euh... évoluer
Caption 11 [en]: I wanted a fir tree with its own soil, that way, uh... I can watch it, uh... develop

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Amerigo Vespucci sets foot for the first time on the American continent. He collects all manner of plants and animals, only to drop them into the Amazon River.

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Caption 2 [fr]: Si ça continue comme ça, tu vas devenir célèbre.
Caption 2 [en]: If it continues like this, you're going to become famous.

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LCM - Concert: La Folia à l'abbaye Saint-Victor

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

The teenage violist Valentin Tournet plays an excerpt from Marin Marais' "Folies d'Espagne" (Follies of Spain) in this interview. He talks about the folia, an early music theme from Spain, as well as the passion for music he developed at a very young age.

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Caption 17 [fr]: Euh... c'est-à-dire que c'est une succession d'accords, un peu comme le blues aujourd'hui,
Caption 17 [en]: Uh... that is to say that it's a succession of chords, a little like the blues today,

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Voyage en France - Reims - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol continues our tour of Reims. You'll not only see the Cathedral, but a lot of intriguing architectural styles, art deco buildings, and a fifties structure merged with a medieval tower.

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Caption 13 [fr]: avec, comme magnifique exemple, cette bibliothèque,
Caption 13 [en]: with, as a magnificent example, this library,

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TV Sud - Fête de la Tortue 2012

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

If you're a turtle lover, you may be interested in the Fête de la tortue (Turtle Festival), which takes place in a different French town every year. This year's festival was in July, so you and your turtles will have to wait for next year's!

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Caption 10 [fr]: qui ne viennent pas de Grèce comme leur nom ne l'indique pas,
Caption 10 [en]: which do not come from Greece as their name does not indicate,

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Le Mans TV - Benjamin Perrot: "La rébellion du combiné"

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Overwhelmed by the amount of text messages and other technological annoyances in his life, singer-songwriter Benjamin Perrot uses this acoustic session on Le Mans TV as an opportunity to "disconnect." Don't let your phone distract you while watching this video!

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Caption 12 [fr]: Comme allergique à l'appareil
Caption 12 [en]: Like I'm allergic to the device

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Grand Lille TV - Marques d'Amour: Quand Florence Cassez écrit une chanson

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The rock group La Jarry has set to music a text written by Florence Cassez, a French woman who was imprisoned in Mexico in 2005 for her alleged involvement with a Mexican kidnapping ring. Cassez's case has provoked diplomatic tensions between Mexico and France in the years following her arrest.

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Caption 2 [fr]: nous vous proposons de découvrir une chanson pas vraiment comme les autres
Caption 2 [en]: we invite you to discover a song not really like any other

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Amerigo Vespucci sails for the New World to explore new territories discovered by Columbus, draw accurate maps, and find the true route to the Indies. As his ship approaches "Little Venice," or Venezuela, the crew comes into contact with some local natives.

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Caption 20 [fr]: Cette nuit, je vais aller à terre. Comme ça je prendrai la latitude.
Caption 20 [en]: Tonight I'll go on land. That way I'll measure the latitude.

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Leçons avec Lionel - Avoir - Part 1

Difficulty: Newbie

France

Lionel is a true Renaissance man: not only is he a tour guide and a stand-up comedian, but he's also a teacher. In this video, he'll show you how to conjugate the verb avoir (to have) in the present indicative.

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Caption 33 [fr]: Ce n'est pas "elles" "ont". Elles ont. Comme "z".
Caption 33 [en]: It's not "they" "have." They have. Like Z.

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JT - Découverte du gypaète barbu aux Aigles du Léman

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In a nature park in the Haute-Savoie department of France, one of the largest birds of prey in Europe is presented to the public: meet Léman, the famous lammergeyer (or bearded vulture), in all his beauty and glory!

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Caption 18 [fr]: Ça plane comme un cerf-volant.
Caption 18 [en]: It glides like a kite.

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Le Mans TV - Benjamin Perrot: "Les voisins"

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Viewer Discretion Advised

The young singer-songwriter Benjamin Perrot has some loud neighbors, and his walls made of cardboard aren't exactly soundproof. You'll see in the video why he wonders if his neighbors are actually "rabbits"....

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Caption 24 [fr]: Qu'est-ce qui la fait crier comme ça?
Caption 24 [en]: What makes her scream like that?

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Canal 32 - Les secrets des cailles des blés

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In order to find out more about the common quail, this team of technicians is capturing some male members of the species to track the birds' migratory patterns, reproduction rate, and total population.

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Caption 32 [fr]: parce qu'avec la création et la recréation du biotope comme nous le faisons actuellement,
Caption 32 [en]: because with the creation and re-creation of the biotope as we're currently doing it,

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