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Lionel - Le club de foot de Nancy - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to a highly regarded soccer club where the shadow of certain famous soccer players like Rouyer and Platini still hangs. The Nancy-Lorraine Soccer Club grooms high school boys into professional soccer players, endeavoring to strike a balance between academic and sporting achievements.

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Caption 12 [fr]: comme par exemple, Arsène Wenger, Aimé Jacquet,
Caption 12 [en]: such as, for example, Arsène Wenger, Aimé Jacquet,

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TV Vendée - Vendée : Pierre Zucchi, 104 ans, raconte ses mémoires

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

TV Vendée interviews 104-year-old Pierre Zucchi, an architect and musician who helped build Queen Elizabeth's private hospital. So far, he's written five autobiographical books that he plans to share with his children.

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Caption 25 [fr]: comme un international,
Caption 25 [en]: as an international,

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - J'ai volé pour nourrir mon fils - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Nino comes home from Eddy and his mother's workplace and recounts the incident with Nicole, the manager who threw him out. He fails to mention that Eddy caught him stealing some merchandise.

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Caption 14 [fr]: et l'a engueulé comme une pauvre merde
Caption 14 [en]: and chewed him up like a pathetic piece of shit

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1789: Les Amants de la Bastille - Tomber dans ses yeux

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

"Tomber dans ses yeux" (To Fall into Her Eyes) is a song from the musical Les Amants de la Bastille (The Lovers of the Bastille), a love story set during the leadup to the storming of the Bastille in 1789. This video gives you a sneak peek of the musical as well as some behind-the-scenes footage.

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Caption 29 [fr]: Comme une larme à la fin de l'histoire
Caption 29 [en]: Like a tear at the end of the story

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Voyage en France - Soissons - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In part two of our discovery of Soissons, a very ancient town indeed (it was founded in the year 20 B.C.), Daniel Benchimol takes us on a sweltering summer day to visit some interesting places, including the Église Saint-Pierre, part of a seventh-century monastery where Charlemagne's daughter lived. He then shows us a baroque-style building on Little Red Riding Hood Street opposite a magnificent century-old fish market.

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Caption 43 [fr]: c'est comme dans le conte de Perrault, "Le petit chaperon rouge"...
Caption 43 [en]: it's like in Perrault's tale, "Little Red Riding Hood"...

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Lionel - La boutique de madeleines de Liverdun - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel is still in Liverdun, a small village in the Lorraine, to find out some more about the madeleine. It's a specialty of the region that comes in various delicious flavors, such as mirabelle plum and bergamot orange.

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Caption 46 [fr]: la trouvent excellente... -Très bien. -comme... comme les autres madeleines.
Caption 46 [en]: find it excellent... -Very good. -like... like the other madeleines.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - J'ai volé pour nourrir mon fils - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Nino visits Eddy's workplace as arranged. However, things get out of control when Nino becomes confrontational. Meanwhile the manager arrives and is angry that a stranger was allowed on the company premises. Nino seems pleased with himself and decides to play a dirty trick on Eddy.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Le lendemain, comme convenu,
Caption 1 [en]: The next day, as agreed,

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Grand Lille TV - L'huile de friture transformée en carburant

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

This news report explores the possibilities of new biofuels. The company Gecco is testing biofuels made from coffee grounds and cooking oil on service vehicles and a school bus in hopes of converting waste from schools and other institutions.

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Caption 9 [fr]: Le but: le transformer comme combustible
Caption 9 [en]: The aim: to transform it into fuel

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Lea - La Cinémathèque française

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lea shows us one of the largest film libraries in the world, the Cinémathèque Française, which contains over forty thousand films. After the Cinémathèque's original home in the Palais de Chaillot burned down, it relocated to a brand-new facility in Paris's twelfth arrondissement.

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Caption 30 [fr]: comme Truffaut ou Godard.
Caption 30 [en]: like Truffaut or Godard.

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TV Tours - Apiculture: Des ruches sur le toit d'un supermarché (Vendée)

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

A beekeeper in La Roche-sur-Yon has found the perfect place for his apiary: the rooftop of a supermarket. It's a win-win situation: the store manager helps the beekeeper with his production in return for a steady supply of local honey.

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Caption 57 [fr]: comme installer ce qui se voit de plus en plus aujourd'hui:
Caption 57 [en]: like installing what is being seen more and more today:

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Voyage en France - Soissons - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel takes us to Soissons, an ancient city that was the first capital of France. He shows us the memorial commemorating the victims of World War I and depicting the legend of the famous Soissons vase.

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Caption 20 [fr]: qui est travaillé comme une fresque tout autour du monument aux morts.
Caption 20 [en]: which is sculpted like a fresco all around the memorial to the dead.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - J'ai volé pour nourrir mon fils - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Sarah invites her coworker Eddy over for dinner to meet her son Nino. After seeing Eddy kiss Sarah on his way out, Nino gets angry and lashes out at his mother.

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Caption 6 [fr]: Alors Nino, comme ça tu veux être chef cuisinier?
Caption 6 [en]: So Nino, so you want to be a chef?

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Le Figaro - Elle a banni le sucre pendant un an - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Danièle Gerkens, who decided to give up sugar for a year, discovered some unexpected benefits on her health. She claims that she looks younger, feels healthier, and is free of cravings, but she cautions that everyone reacts differently. You can read another interview with her here.

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Caption 132 [fr]: j'ai pris un morceau à peu près grand comme ça de Paris-Brest.
Caption 132 [en]: I took a piece about that big of Paris-Brest [cream pastry].

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France 24 - Réchauffement climatique : un danger pour le vin français - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In this video, Jean-Marc Touzard explains the effects of global warming on wine growing and the quality of the wine in France.

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Caption 11 [fr]: comme ce qui était dit précédemment.
Caption 11 [en]: as was said previously.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - J'ai volé pour nourrir mon fils - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Sarah goes back to work feeling uneasy after having stolen a steak for her son the day before. Her colleague, whom she fancies, invites her for drinks. To her relief, he has no idea about the theft, so she is delighted to take him up on his offer.

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Caption 13 [fr]: J'en ai marre d'avoir une mère comme toi!
Caption 13 [en]: I'm fed up with having a mother like you!

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