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Questions à la con - Les fameuses questions à la con

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Test yourself on these "Stupid Questions" and enjoy the hilarious answers from people on the street.

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Caption 25 [fr]: La première présidente française de la République,
Caption 25 [en]: The first female French president of the Republic,

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Mon Lieu Préféré - Jardin du Luxembourg

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Axel gives a tour of his favorite park, the "Gardens of Luxembourg", which remind him of his childhood and teenage years.

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Caption 45 [fr]: l'endroit où sont enterrées les grandes personnes de... l'histoire française.
Caption 45 [en]: the place where the great people, uh... of French history are buried.

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Fred et Miami Catamarans - Les Bateaux

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Fred is a Frenchman living and working in Miami. In this video, he shows us the different kinds of sailboats he uses at his job, Miami Catamarans.

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Caption 3 [fr]: Euh... J'habite à Miami depuis huit ans maintenant. Je suis française [sic].
Caption 3 [en]: Uh... I have been living in Miami for eight years now. I am French.

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Actu Vingtième - La burqa

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Interviewees on the streets of Paris protest the banning of the burqa in public places in France and offer their perspectives on this controversial issue.

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Caption 31 [fr]: je... j'étais, j'étais un bon pétainiste. J'étais pour la Révolution française et tout ça.
Caption 31 [en]: I... I was, I was a strong Pétain supporter. I was for the French Revolution and all that.

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Mon Lieu Préféré - Théâtre du Rond-Point

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

First a panorama, then a skating rink, and now a theater. Like many places in Paris, the 19th-century building that houses the Théâtre du Rond-Point has certainly undergone a lot of changes over the years. Lauren tells us why it's one of her favorite spots in the city.

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Caption 44 [fr]: qui propose beaucoup d'auteurs contemporains, de dramaturgie française.
Caption 44 [en]: which offers a lot of contemporary authors, of French dramaturgy.

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Fred et Miami Catamarans - Fred et sa vie à Miami

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Meet Fred, a young Frenchman who still feels French even though he lives in Miami. Student by day, sailor by night, Fred makes the most of Miami's sunshine, cultural diversity, and, of course, wind.

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Caption 36 [fr]: je... je mange toujours de la nourriture française, marques françaises.
Caption 36 [en]: I... I always eat French food, French brands.

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Yabla à Nancy - Université Nancy 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The French equivalent of ESL (English as a Second Language) is known as FLE (Français langue étrangère, or "French as a Foreign Language"). FLE is what you're learning right now, and it's what one of the women in this video is learning to teach.

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Caption 11 [fr]: des besoins de... de s'intégrer dans la société française aussi,
Caption 11 [en]: the need to... to integrate themselves into French society as well,

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Le Journal - Les relations franco-gabonaises

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Two students from Gabon were expelled from a French University and deported back to their home country for having low grades in school. One was even forced to leave behind his wife and young daughter (a French citizen). The government of Gabon is not pleased and may take measures to retaliate in kind.

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Caption 9 [fr]: laissant derrière lui à Reims son épouse et sa fille de quatre ans qui est française.
Caption 9 [en]: leaving behind him in Reims his wife and four-year-old daughter, who is French.

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Yabla à Nancy - Le masculin et le féminin

Difficulty: Beginner

France

English speakers may find this strange, but most European languages (including French) assign a gender to every noun. So how are you supposed to know that the word for “apple” (la pomme) is feminine, but the word for “grape” (le raisin) is masculine? Practice, practice, practice!

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Caption 4 [fr]: Dans la langue française, nous avons deux genres: le masculin et le féminin.
Caption 4 [en]: In the French language, we have two genders: masculine and feminine.

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Parigot - Le bistrot

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Come meet the owner of the bistro Parigot (French slang for “Parisian”). This charming restaurant is a French oasis at the intersection of Manhattan’s Chinatown/Little Italy and Soho districts.

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Caption 16 [fr]: On nous a décrit comme étant une île française dans un... dans une mer chinoise,
Caption 16 [en]: We have been described as being a French island in a... in a Chinese sea,

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Bastille Day NYC - Le 14 juillet à New York

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

No Quatorze Juillet would be complete without pétanque and Lillet—and that doesn’t just go for France. Here we talk with some of the people attending a Bastille Day celebration in New York City.

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Caption 5 [fr]: Je pense que c'est bien parce que ça crée une atmosphère française.
Caption 5 [en]: I think it's a good thing because it creates a French atmosphere.

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Le Journal - French North African Film

Difficulty: Beginner

France, Morocco

Opening night in Casablanca for the movie Indigènes (English title "Days of Glory") provided a special opportunity for some of the subjects of the film to reflect upon their past, and for Moroccans and the French to talk about their future.

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Caption 15 [fr]: Pour montrer le sacrifice des Marocains à la, à... à notre deuxième nationalité française.
Caption 15 [en]: To show the sacrifice Moroccans made for our... our second French nationality.

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Le Journal - Firewood

Difficulty: Beginner

France

The French lumber market sees a long-awaited recovery, after “the storm of the century.” Time to heat up that new log cabin with a crackling fire in the fireplace.

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Caption 6 [fr]: En quelques heures, la tempête du siècle a mis à terre toute la filière française.
Caption 6 [en]: Within a few hours, the storm of the century brought down everything in the French [forestry] sector.

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Voyage dans Paris - Mouzaïa

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol guides us through the Quartier de la Mouzaïa, a quaint Parisian neighborhood filled with brightly-colored houses, patriotic street names, and old signs. You might forget you’re in a major city in the midst of this beautiful country landscape.

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Caption 20 [fr]: Bien entendu vous le savez: c'est la devise de la République Française.
Caption 20 [en]: Of course you know it: it's the motto of the French Republic.

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Alsace 20 - Arlette Grosskost et la burqa

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Arlette Grosskost, UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) representative and member of the Parliamentary task force on the burqa in France, advocates a law aiming to ban the wearing of the full-body veil in public. What’s your take on this controversial issue? Is it a question of women’s rights? Of religious freedom? Are arguments against the burqa perhaps another type of veil—to cover up underlying racism?

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Caption 31 [fr]: Ce n'est pas ça la République française; ce n'est pas ça l'égalité entre homme et femme.
Caption 31 [en]: That is not the French Republic; that is not equality between man and woman.

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