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Amal et Caroline - Moulin Rouge

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Amal and Caroline are in Pigalle in Paris to tell us about the Moulin Rouge, the famous cabaret where French can-can dancers put on a great show. Contrary to what its name might suggest, the Moulin Rouge (literally, "Red Windmill") was never used as a windmill.

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Caption 18 [fr]: comme le plus emblématique, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Caption 18 [en]: like the most emblematic one, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Sophie et Patrice - Les lampes de Sophie - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Sophie explains in greater detail how she makes lamps out of old jam jars. She has some blue ones that make great night-lights, and some brighter ones that are perfect for reading.

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Caption 29 [fr]: Voilà. -Parce que t'as pas que des bocaux comme ça,
Caption 29 [en]: Right. -Because you don't just have jars like that,

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À la recherche de mon passé - Part 5

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Julia is slowly unraveling the thread of her story before her accident. As much as she would like to believe her husband, she can't reconcile his story with those of her best friend Pauline and her brother, leaving her confused and distraught.

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Caption 75 [fr]: Et comme par hasard, ça confirme les dires de Jean.
Caption 75 [en]: And what a coincidence, it confirms Jean's assertions.

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Extr@ - Ep. 1 - L'arrivée de Sam - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France None

Sacha and Annie are excited about Sam's imminent arrival from America. While they are getting the apartment ready, Nico shows up, to Annie's delight and Sacha's dismay.

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Caption 8 [fr]: Oh là là là là. Oh, comme Brad Pitt.
Caption 8 [en]: Oh my, my, my. Oh, like Brad Pitt.

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Sophie et Patrice - Les lampes de Sophie - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Sophie explains her hobby to Patrice. She makes fun lamps out of vintage American canning jars to which she applies a cold plating solution to make them look aged.

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Caption 42 [fr]: Voilà. Je fais la circonférence comme ça.
Caption 42 [en]: There we are. I mark the circumference like this.

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Le saviez-vous? - Karine Rougier présente son art - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Karine Rougier describes the many influences she draws on in her art practice—sixteen millimeter films, poetry, Flemish painting, tribal masks, the ocean, and more.

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Caption 20 [fr]: comme ça une forme abstraite.
Caption 20 [en]: an abstract shape like that.

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Le saviez-vous? - L'histoire de la dictée - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia explains the importance of dictation exercises for learning French. Now an essential teaching tool in the classroom, dictation was originally a pastime for French nobility. The author Prosper Mérimée created a dictation exercise for Empress Eugénie that stumped even the brightest intellectuals. Think you can beat them? Try it yourself here.

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Caption 7 [fr]: comme le dictionnaire nous le demande,
Caption 7 [en]: as the dictionary requires us to,

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Elisa et Mashal - Les fringues

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Elisa has just gone clothes shopping and is showing off her purchases to Mashal, who helps her put some outfits together.

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Caption 6 [fr]: Oui, ça fait comme si j'étais partie à Los Angeles!
Caption 6 [en]: Yes, it looks like I went to Los Angeles!

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À la recherche de mon passé - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Julia doesn't remember anything of her life with her husband and hopes that her brother Jean will help her recover her past. She's very troubled by the shocking revelations she receives from both her brother and her husband.

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Caption 15 [fr]: comme tu sais, Luc et moi, on s'est jamais entendu.
Caption 15 [en]: as you know, Luc and I, we never got along.

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Le saviez-vous? - La tradition de la Chandeleur - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia continues her series on the feast of Candlemas, which in France is centered around the crêpe. Due to its round shape and golden color, the crêpe was a symbol of the sun in pagan times.

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Caption 28 [fr]: comme pour qu'elles atteignent le soleil.
Caption 28 [en]: as if in order for them to reach the sun.

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Claire et Philippe - Mon morceau de piano

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Philippe composed a short piano melody for Claire. After playing it for her, he teaches her some basic chords.

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Caption 18 [fr]: C'est comme si tu racontais une histoire, en fait.
Caption 18 [en]: It's as if you were telling a story, in fact.

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Sophie et Patrice - Les endives au jambon - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Sophie and Patrice come up with some variations on their simple but hearty meal of endive with ham. They briefly consider opening a restaurant, but as Patrice points out, cooking for forty-five people is a lot harder than cooking for two.

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Caption 29 [fr]: juste tartinée comme ça... -Ouais.
Caption 29 [en]: just spread like that... -Yeah.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À la recherche de mon passé - Part 3

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Julia meets with her brother, the person most familiar to her, though her memories are still vague. Later, her husband shows her a photo album to jog her memory, but she can't focus. She's convinced she was pushed down the stairs on the night of her accident.

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Caption 40 [fr]: La nuit précédente, elle a eu, comme un flash,
Caption 40 [en]: The night before, she had, like a flash,

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Sophie et Patrice - Les endives au jambon - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Patrice gives Sophie the recipe for endives au jambon (endive with ham), a simple but filling dish he learned from his father. Try it at home!

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Caption 22 [fr]: Ouais, sur toute la longueur comme ça, ou en quatre, tu vois? -D'accord.
Caption 22 [en]: Yeah, over the entire length like that, or in fours, you see? -OK.

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Bicloune - Magasin de vélos à Paris

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Bicloune is a unique bicycle shop in Paris with a wide variety of models, from antique bikes from 1905 to contemporary foldable ones. Audrey Hepburn supposedly used to ride a bicycle like one found in this store.

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Caption 29 [fr]: comme j'ess'... je vous expliquais tout à l'heure,
Caption 29 [en]: as I tr'... I was explaining to you a moment ago,

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