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Le Figaro - Les cinq scènes historiquement fausses du «Napoléon» de Ridley Scott - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Director Ridley Scott's recently released movie Napoleon was never intended to be historically accurate. Find out where the movie departs from the facts.

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Caption 8 [en]: in French theaters on Wednesday.
Caption 8 [fr]: dans les salles françaises mercredi.

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Français avec Nelly - A Simple Technique to Increase Your Vocab - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Nelly gives us some more examples of descriptive adjectives that can replace the formulation "très (very) + adjective."

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Caption 37 [en]: My French teacher is very interesting.
Caption 37 [fr]: Ma professeur de français est très intéressante.

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Mère & Fille - La recette de folie - Le portable perdu - En voiture - Le perroquet

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Enjoy the hilarious misadventures of Barbara, the incorrigible daughter, and Isabelle, her cunning mother, in these four vignettes. Their moral: A teenager never seems to have the last word!

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Caption 12 [en]: Estouffade [Southern French stew] rings
Caption 12 [fr]: Rondelles d'estouffaille [sic : estouffade]

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Lionel - L'écluse de Réchicourt-le-Château - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Moving on from the salt mines of his previous episode, Lionel goes to Réchicourt-le-Château to learn about the locks and waterways of the area.

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Caption 81 [en]: So we... we are subject to the French regulations, you know, of thirty-five hours per week.
Caption 81 [fr]: Alors on... on est soumis aux règles françaises, hein, des trente-cinq heures par semaine.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À l'audience: Détournement d'argent dans le couple ? - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Suzie Plot, married to Xavier Plot for nineteen years, accuses her husband of hiding the couple's money so he can divorce her and not pay alimony.

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Caption 22 [en]: Every year, the French justice system renders more than four hundred thousand criminal judgments.
Caption 22 [fr]: Tous les ans, la justice française rend plus de quatre cent mille jugements en correctionnelle.

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Lionel - Marsal - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

We conclude our visit to Marsal with a few comments from Michel, who shows us a stone marking the passage of a Roman emperor in Marsal in the first century AD. And Lionel has a few salty expressions in store for you...

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Caption 34 [en]: "With fleur de sel [French sea salt], "raw, with salt," et cetera.
Caption 34 [fr]: « À la fleur de sel », « à la croque au sel » et cetera.

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Lionel - Marsal - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Michel guides us back to the time of Louis XIV, who took the town of Marsal in 1663. Find out why.

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Caption 13 [en]: And so... -Marsal becomes French in sixteen sixty-three?
Caption 13 [fr]: Et donc... -Marsal devient française en mille six cent soixante-trois ?

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Lionel - Marsal - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lionel, Michel, and Juliette take a stroll through the village, where they meet some ceramic artists, a dog, and even the mayor!

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Caption 52 [en]: Does he bark... in French? -Well, we think so, you know, anyway. -Yes yes, yes yes.
Caption 52 [fr]: Il aboie... en français ? -Ben, on pense, hein, quand même. -Oui oui, oui oui.

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Leïa - Le petit déjeuner

Difficulty: Beginner

Réunion

Leïa tells us what she is having for breakfast and lists some other popular options.

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Caption 26 [en]: In French, we can also say "petit déj"
Caption 26 [fr]: En français, on peut dire aussi « petit déj »

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Lionel - Marsal - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Still in the village of Marsal, we're going inside the collégiale, or abbey church, with Michel, Juliette, and Lionel. Juliette teaches us about the three gisants located inside the church.

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Caption 35 [en]: Because our... our friends are learning French, but they are beginners.
Caption 35 [fr]: Parce que nos... nos amis apprennent le français, mais ils sont débutants.

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Asma - Choux crémeux au chocolat et noix de pécan

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Asma shows us how to make a scrumptious pastry made from pecan praline and chocolate crémeux (a mixture of chocolate and crème anglaise). Believe it or not, this dessert is low in sugar!

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Caption 55 [en]: So gavottes are small French cookies
Caption 55 [fr]: Donc les gavottes ce sont des petits biscuits français

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Lionel - Marsal - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The little village of Marsal is gearing up for the eight hundredth anniversary of the abbey church of Saint-Léger, featuring a concert by a world-renowned German pianist.

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Caption 41 [en]: isn't a French word and even me, sometimes, you know?
Caption 41 [fr]: n'est pas un mot français et même moi, quelquefois, hein?

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Lionel - Marsal - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Michel talks about the role his father played in the creation of the museum. And do you know the origin of the word "salary"?

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Caption 53 [en]: In French the word "salaire" [salary] comes from "sel" [salt].
Caption 53 [fr]: En français le mot "salaire" vient de "sel".

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Mère & Fille - Le coup de téléphone

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Barbara will do anything to get her mom to buy her the latest phone, including lying about her grades. Find out if she's successful!

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Caption 60 [en]: So French, seven [out of twenty].
Caption 60 [fr]: Alors français, sept.

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Extr@ - Ep. 12 - Fou de foot - Part 7

Difficulty: Beginner

France

We can hear wedding bells... Find out who's planning to tie the knot in the final part of this episode!

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Caption 8 [en]: Look at the faces of the French team.
Caption 8 [fr]: Regardez la tête de l'équipe française.

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