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Le Jour où tout a basculé - J'ai volé pour nourrir mon fils - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

After her divorce, Sarah is raising her son Nino alone and is having trouble coping with his hostile behavior. Her financial situation doesn't allow for meat on the table more than twice a week. Nino proposes a dishonest solution, but his mother won't hear of it.

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Caption 20 [fr]: J'en ai marre d'avoir une mère comme toi.
Caption 20 [en]: I'm sick of having a mother like you.

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Alain Etoundi - Allez tous vous faire enfilmer! - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

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A black mother who joined the film project launched by Alain Etoundi is critical of movies that don't portray black people accurately and perpetuate stereotypes. She says there's a dearth of good movies with positive role models for young black people.

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Caption 27 [fr]: pour qu'il y ait plus de films comme le nôtre.
Caption 27 [en]: so there may be more films like ours.

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Le saviez-vous? - Conjugaison du verbe finir au présent

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In this video, you will learn how to conjugate the verb finir (to finish) in the present tense. This verb is used as a reference for all second-group verbs, which end in -ir.

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Caption 23 [fr]: Comme avec le "je",
Caption 23 [en]: As with "je,"

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Voyage en France - Auvers-sur-Oise - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel finishes up his tour of Auvers-sur-Oise with an appreciation of Vincent Van Gogh, who completed an astounding eighty paintings during his two-month sojourn in the village. In this video, you'll see the inn where the artist stayed during his visit, along with some of the gorgeous stops on the "painters' discovery" tour of Auvers-sur-Oise. It's easy to see why the village was such an inspiration to the impressionists!

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Caption 44 [fr]: Et comme vous pouvez le constater, il est tout simplement en plein milieu des champs.
Caption 44 [en]: And as you can see, it's quite simply right in the middle of the fields.

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Lionel - au club canin - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this video, Jean-Pierre teaches us some dog commands in various languages, using his border collie Chic as a model. He also tells us why some breeds are easier to train than others.

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Caption 69 [fr]: un chien qui va... comme un teckel,
Caption 69 [en]: a dog that will... like a dachshund,

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

When René, Edna, Sylvette, and Louise finally come face to face with each other, Edna and Louise can no longer hide their game of deception. The confusion that ensues slowly clears as confessions come forth. Will they all recover and forgive one another?

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Caption 69 [fr]: Alors ça! J'y ai cru dur comme fer.
Caption 69 [en]: Well then! I believed it hard as iron [I totally believed it].

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Le saviez-vous? - La Cigale et la fourmi - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia sheds a new light on the renowned fable by Jean de La Fontaine, "The Cicada and the Ant." Maybe the cicada isn't such a bad character after all....

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Caption 19 [fr]: comme il a pu le faire dans d'autres de ses fables.
Caption 19 [en]: as he was able to do in his other fables.

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Stromae - Te Quiero

Difficulty: Intermediate

Belgium

Stromae sings "Te Quiero" ("I love you" in Spanish). He describes a frustrating relationship that he knows he won't be able to quit.

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Caption 15 [fr]: Donc comme tout le monde je vais en souffrir jusqu'à la mort
Caption 15 [en]: So like everyone else I'll suffer because of it until death

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Banlieues françaises - jeunes et policiers, l'impossible réconciliation? - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Activist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo talks about racial tensions between the police and young people in French working-class suburbs. She calls for better police training and more accountability to prevent violence against young people of color.

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Caption 28 [fr]: vus comme étant d'origine maghrébine ou noire,
Caption 28 [en]: seen as being of Maghreb origin or black,

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Louise's scheme is starting to unravel. Annette is no longer playing the role she was assigned, and Louise's grandfather has fallen in love again, but not with the right person. How is she going to deal with the situation? Her grandmother is left in the dark for now.

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Caption 35 [fr]: inventer une mise en scène comme ça.
Caption 35 [en]: to invent a scene like that.

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Voyage en France - Montmorency - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The quaint little town of Montmorency holds a few peculiar surprises, such as a gas station sign with an outdated phone number and a statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that's been knocked over multiple times.

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Caption 10 [fr]: comme cette enseigne de ce commerce: Tous combustibles, butane-propane.
Caption 10 [en]: like this shop sign: All combustibles, butane-propane.

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Banlieues françaises - jeunes et policiers, l'impossible réconciliation? - Part 3

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Many residents of Aulnay-sous-Bois have been reporting instances of police hostility in the town. In this segment, journalists show testimonies gathered from residents to a police official, who hopes that both sides will be able to rise above the situation and seek a permanent solution.

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Caption 6 [fr]: Et ben, on a grandi comme ça en fait.
Caption 6 [en]: Well, we grew up like that, in fact.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Louise begs Edna to try to make Sylvette jealous enough so that she will go back to her husband René. Edna, posing as René's new girlfriend Annette, agrees to confront Sylvette to tell her that she's in love with him.

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Caption 26 [fr]: Je suis... je peux plus continuer comme ça, Louise.
Caption 26 [en]: I'm... I can't go on like this, Louise.

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Le saviez-vous? - La couleur blanche et ses expressions - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia takes us on a "white journey in the French language" by explaining some common French expressions using the word blanc/blanche (white).

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Caption 10 [fr]: être blanc comme un cachet d'aspirine
Caption 10 [en]: to be as white as an aspirin pill,

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Voyage en France - Montmorency - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol shows us around Montmorency, a town famous for being the residence of the Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who lived in the "House of Gossips." Montmorency also boasts a medieval communal oven and is near a sulfurous spring that is open to the public!

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Caption 3 [fr]: le numéro quatre-vingt-quinze, le "neuf cinq" comme on dit chez les jeunes en France.
Caption 3 [en]: number ninety-five, the "nine five," as they say among young people in France.

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