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The quaint little town of Montmorency holds a few peculiar surprises, such as a gas station sign with an outdated phone number and a statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that's been knocked over multiple times.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