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Le Journal - Marianne

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Marianne is the symbol of the French Republic and has roots in the revolution of 1789. But are French mayors ready to represent the France of today with a Marianne of color?

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Caption 11 [fr]: En des temps un peu difficiles comme les semaines qu'on vient de vivre actuellement
Caption 11 [en]: During difficult times like these past few weeks that we've just experienced

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Le Journal - Youssou N'Dour

Difficulty: Intermediate

France, Senegal

Youssou N’Dour, one of the world’s most beloved French-speaking musicians, hails not from France, but from Africa.

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Caption 4 [fr]: en ne faisant rien comme les autres.
Caption 4 [en]: while doing nothing like anyone else.

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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 34 [fr]: Et ça a duré quelques mois comme ça, ensuite...
Caption 34 [en]: And that went on like that for a few months, then...

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Le Journal - Un automne bien chaud

Difficulty: Beginner

France

On the French Riviera when it’s twenty-three degrees Celsius in the middle of November, some of us are tempted to head for the beach and take one final dip.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Quinze centimètres sous les pas, un soleil gros comme ça, et pourtant pas un chat!
Caption 1 [en]: Fifteen centimeters under your feet, a big sun like this, and yet nothing stirring!

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Le Journal - Le photographe Cartier-Bresson

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Henri Cartier-Bresson is arguably France’s most notable contribution to the world of photography.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Avec un regard comme celui-là, on se doute bien qu'il a dû en voir.
Caption 1 [en]: With a look like this, one might well guess that he must have seen a lot.

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Le Journal - Le Festival international du mime

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Today’s mime is a far cry from Marcel Marceau, whose clones accost you in the park.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Pour les chiens de Périgueux, le nouvel ennemi, perché comme un chat,
Caption 1 [en]: For the dogs of Périgueux, the new enemy, perched like a cat,

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Le Journal - La sécheresse

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The summer months have been very dry in many parts of France for the past several years.

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Caption 21 [fr]: Feuilles sèches, petits grains: les vignes souffrent comme tout le reste de l'agriculture.
Caption 21 [en]: Dry leaves, small grapes: the vineyards are suffering like all the rest of the crops.

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Le Journal - Voter: un droit ou un choix?

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In France, one is registered to vote automatically upon reaching voting age.

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Caption 8 [fr]: J'étais inscrit dans le Nord, mais, bon, comme... maintenant j'habite ici pour mes études,
Caption 8 [en]: I was registered in the North, but, well, since... now I live here because of school,

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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 Malgré-nous/Massacre d'Oradour - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre took place over a half a century ago, but France still remembers.

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Caption 20 [fr]: les Alsaciens comme les Allemands.
Caption 20 [en]: the Alsatians as well as Germans.

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Le Journal - Les Malgré-nous/Massacre d'Oradour - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Malgré-nous (Despite Ourselves) are the roughly 130,000 young Alsatians from Lorraine, many of them recruited by force, who served under the Nazis during World War II.

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Caption 15 [fr]: atrocités et massacres comme à Tulle ou ici à Oradour-sur-Glane,
Caption 15 [en]: atrocities and massacres as in Tulle or here in Oradour-sur-Glane,

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Le Journal - L'Institut du goût

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Students at the Institute of Taste must carefully imbibe the finest of champagnes, delicacies, and other gourmet specialties.

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Caption 2 [fr]: Comme devoirs de classe, il y a plus pénibles!
Caption 2 [en]: There are more tiring class assignments!

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Le Journal - Le sida

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The mortality rate for people with AIDS in France is one fifth of what it once was. Not only that, but modern medications are much easier to schedule.

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Caption 21 [fr]: Maintenant on est avec des produits, euh... on est avec des produits, euh... comme ceux... ceux-ci,
Caption 21 [en]: Now we've got products, uh... we've got products, uh... like these... these ones here,

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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 16 [fr]: Deux mille appareils comme ceux-ci équiperont bientôt les gares de France.
Caption 16 [en]: Two thousand distributors like these will soon be set up in French train stations.

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Le Journal - Concurrence des routiers étrangers

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the US, many American truckers don’t want Mexican drivers on the road. A similar situation is brewing in France where drivers from other countries will do the same work for half as much pay.

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Caption 1 [fr]: C'est un camion comme les autres, à un détail près: sa plaque minéralogique, portugaise.
Caption 1 [en]: It's a truck like any other, except for one thing: its license plate, Portuguese.

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