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Le saviez-vous? - La couleur blanche et ses expressions - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia tells us a fun story peppered with expressions involving the word blanc/blanche (white). You might recognize some of them from English, such as hisser le drapeau blanc (to raise the white flag), but others are a bit more difficult to decipher.

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Caption 5 [fr]: Pâle, et même blanche comme un cachet d'aspirine.
Caption 5 [en]: Pale, and even white as an aspirin pill.

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France 24 - Découvrez le parcours du médicament : Du laboratoire à la pharmacie

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In this video you will learn about the process of developing and marketing new medications in France. After numerous trials on animals, then humans, a drug is finally put on the market once the price is set by the European Medicines Agency.

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Caption 28 [fr]: ou au médicament de référence reconnu comme le traitement incontournable.
Caption 28 [en]: or to the control medicine recognized as the inevitable treatment.

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Lionel - à Lindre-Basse - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Jean-Pierre gives Lionel some more information about the habits of storks. These migratory birds can be trained to be sedentary so visitors have a chance to see them year-round.

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Caption 43 [fr]: D'accord. -Comme les avions.
Caption 43 [en]: OK. -Like airplanes.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

René has set up a date with a woman he met online. It's a date he'll surely remember, as he's going to get more than he bargained for, thanks to his granddaughter's scheming...

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Caption 19 [fr]: Comme elle connaît les identifiants de René,
Caption 19 [en]: Since she knows René's passwords,

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Banlieues françaises - jeunes et policiers, l'impossible réconciliation? - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Journalists spent a week in Aulnay-sous-Bois interviewing young people about ongoing issues and clashes with the police. In the Cité des Trois Mille district, which includes 3,000 public housing units, cultural and sporting organizations are stepping in to make up for the lack of public services.

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Caption 24 [fr]: Et comme beaucoup, il est fatigué de l'image renvoyée de sa ville.
Caption 24 [en]: And like many, he's tired of the image sent back to him of his town.

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Lionel - à Lindre-Basse - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Still in the Lindre-Basse region, Jean-Pierre explains the fish breeding process to Lionel. They also enjoy the beautiful sight of storks building their nests during mating season.

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Caption 2 [fr]: Alors la pisciculture, comme tu nous l'as dit, Jean-Pierre,
Caption 2 [en]: So fish farming, as you told us, Jean-Pierre,

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Louise's desperate pleas to her grandmother fall on deaf ears. On the verge of divorce, her grandparents are starting to go their separate ways and dismiss their granddaughter's appeal for reason and reconciliation.

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Caption 18 [fr]: avec un homme comme ton grand-père?
Caption 18 [en]: with a man like your grandfather?

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Le saviez-vous? - La couleur noire et ses expressions

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia is in a dark mood.... Learn some expressions using the word noir (dark, black) and express your dark feelings in French!

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Caption 32 [fr]: Face à lui, j'ai eu comme un trou noir.
Caption 32 [en]: In front of him, I had what seemed like a black hole [a complete blank].

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Lionel - à Lindre-Basse - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel and his cousin Jean-Pierre continue their visit to the Lindre-Basse area with its amazing natural surroundings. The ponds teem with fish and birds for a while before being drained and then used for cultivation, which in turn will enrich the soil after they're refilled.

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Caption 16 [fr]: D'accord. -Comme la Seille, par exemple. Hein?
Caption 16 [en]: OK. -Like the Seille, for example. Right?

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Le saviez-vous? - Les expressions à ne pas prendre au pied de la lettre - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the second installment on French expressions not to be taken literally, Patricia discusses the phrase se faire l'avocat du diable (to play devil's advocate).

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Caption 7 [fr]: on arrive à une situation comme celle-là.
Caption 7 [en]: we arrive at a situation like this one.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Louise is doing all she can to rescue her grandparents' marriage. She doesn't want them to throw away the forty-two years they had together. She storms off to talk to her grandmother, having had no luck with her grandfather.

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Caption 37 [fr]: elle m'annonçait comme ça, la bouche en cœur,
Caption 37 [en]: just like that she announced, with heart-shaped lips [all smiles],

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Lionel - La ville de Toul

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel is in Toul, twenty-seven kilometers from Nancy in the northeast of France. This small medieval town has a pretty riverside port and a magnificent Gothic cathedral called Cathédrale Saint-Étienne. Don't miss Lionel's signature pun at the end of this video!

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Caption 34 [fr]: Nous allons vous dire au revoir et comme je suis sur un port,
Caption 34 [en]: We'll say goodbye to you, and since I'm on a port,

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Lionel - à Lindre-Basse - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel and Jean-Pierre talk about fish farming in the pond of Lindre-Basse. This practice dates back to the Middle Ages with an order of soldier-monks called the Knights Templar.

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Caption 38 [fr]: récupérer avec des filets comme autrefois.
Caption 38 [en]: gathering with nets as in the past.

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Voyage en France - Montmorency - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel takes us to Montmorency, a historic town in the Paris region that dates all the way back to the ninth century. Among many other attractions, the town features a public garden dedicated to Lucie Aubrac, one of the most famous figures of the French Resistance during World War II.

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Caption 14 [fr]: Comme vous pouvez le constater il est dans un bâtiment exceptionnel.
Caption 14 [en]: As you can notice, it is in an exceptional building.

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Lionel - à Lindre-Basse - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel and Jean-Pierre try to find their bearings along the Lindre pond. Luckily they have a compass! Jean-Pierre will teach you how to use a compass and explain the difference between true north and magnetic north.

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Caption 33 [fr]: comme une tran'... comme un pamplemousse.
Caption 33 [en]: like a sli'... like a grapefruit.

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