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Le Journal - Youssou N'Dour

Difficulty: Intermediate

France, Senegal

Youssou N’Dour, one of the world’s most beloved French-speaking musicians, hails not from France, but from Africa.

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Caption 2 [fr]: Puis cette musique, son mbalax, puisée très loin dans la culture sénégalaise.
Caption 2 [en]: Then this music, the mbalax sound, drawn from deep within Senegalese culture.

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Mario Canonge - Ses propos - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Martinique

Mario Canonge is one of the most exciting pianists tickling today’s plastic ivories, and Yabla was lucky enough to have caught him in person.

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Caption 3 [fr]: qui est dans les petites Antilles, à côté de la Guadeloupe,
Caption 3 [en]: in the Lesser Antilles next to Guadeloupe,

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Le Journal - Les championnats de planche à voile

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

X-Games: As though windsurfing wasn’t hard enough, they had to add a series of jump-obstacles to the race just to keep things interesting! Check out the “extreme kid” french voiceover… c’est formidable!

Matches in Transcript

Caption 2 [fr]: Avec cette nouvelle discipline, le monde de la planche à voile est dans tous ses états.
Caption 2 [en]: With this new discipline, the world of windsurfing is beside itself.

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Le Journal - Un automne bien chaud

Difficulty: Beginner

France

On the French Riviera when it’s twenty-three degrees Celsius in the middle of November, some of us are tempted to head for the beach and take one final dip.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 9 [fr]: T'es pas habillée pour aller dans l'eau? -Mais non, il fait l'automne.
Caption 9 [en]: You're not dressed to go in the water? -Of course not, it's fall.

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Le Journal - Le photographe Cartier-Bresson

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Henri Cartier-Bresson is arguably France’s most notable contribution to the world of photography.

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Caption 12 [fr]: Premier derrière le Mur de Berlin ou dans la Chine communiste,
Caption 12 [en]: The first one behind the Berlin Wall or in communist China,

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Le Journal - Voter: un droit ou un choix?

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In France, one is registered to vote automatically upon reaching voting age.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 8 [fr]: J'étais inscrit dans le Nord, mais, bon, comme... maintenant j'habite ici pour mes études,
Caption 8 [en]: I was registered in the North, but, well, since... now I live here because of school,

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Le Journal - Les Malgré-nous/Massacre d'Oradour - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre took place over a half a century ago, but France still remembers.

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Caption 7 [fr]: des soldats enrôlés de force dans la division "das Reich", ont participé au massacre.
Caption 7 [en]: soldiers enrolled by force in the "das Reich" division, participated in the massacre.

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Le Journal - Les Malgré-nous/Massacre d'Oradour - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Malgré-nous (Despite Ourselves) are the roughly 130,000 young Alsatians from Lorraine, many of them recruited by force, who served under the Nazis during World War II.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Les troupes de la Wehrmacht dans l'immensité russe:
Caption 1 [en]: The troops of the Wehrmacht in the Russian vastness:

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Amadou et Mariam - La réalité

Difficulty: Beginner

Senegal

Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are joined together by their love for music and each other. The pair met at the Institute for Young Blind People in Bamako, the capital of Mali.

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Caption 2 [fr]: C'est la vie dans ce monde
Caption 2 [en]: That's life in this world

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K-Maro - Femme like U

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Cyril Kamar, who later appeared on the music scene as K-Maro, was born in Lebanon. While still a child, he and his family fled to Paris, but finally settled in Quebec.

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Caption 16 [fr]: Tu as ce regard dans la face
Caption 16 [en]: You have this look on your face

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Le Journal - L'Institut du goût

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Students at the Institute of Taste must carefully imbibe the finest of champagnes, delicacies, and other gourmet specialties.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 16 [fr]: Ce soir, ils pénètrent dans l'univers d'une marque de champagne prestigieuse.
Caption 16 [en]: This evening, they enter the universe of a prestigious champagne brand.

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Le Journal - Les Restos du Cœur

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In 1985, ten million meals were served by Restos du Cœur. By 2004, that number had skyrocketed to sixty million.

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Caption 14 [fr]: Pour moi, c'est important de travailler dans la vie. Si on n'a pas d'travail, on n'a plus rien.
Caption 14 [en]: For me, it's important to work in life. If you don't have a job, you don't have anything left.

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Le Journal - Un sportif handicapé

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Tanguy de la Forest is ready to fly off to the Paralympic Games.

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Caption 18 [fr]: il a envie pressante de revenir dans quatre ans parce qu'il en a les moyens.
Caption 18 [en]: he has a deep-seated desire to come back in four years, because he has the means.

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Le Journal - Le sida

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The mortality rate for people with AIDS in France is one fifth of what it once was. Not only that, but modern medications are much easier to schedule.

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Caption 11 [fr]: La maladie depuis l'a cloué dans un fauteuil,
Caption 11 [en]: The illness has since confined him to a wheelchair,

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Le Journal - Manifestation de paralysés

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Public transport has not always been easy for those who use wheelchairs, but the SNCF (French National Railway Company) has been making changes that make for a much more pleasant trip.

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Caption 6 [fr]: dans certaines gares, il en, il en, il en faut une...
Caption 6 [en]: in some train stations, you, you need one... [feminine indefinite]

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