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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mon père s'oppose à ma passion - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In part one of "My Father Opposes My Passion," we learn the source of the conflict between a teenage girl, Clara, and her father. She dreams of becoming of dancer, but he is totally opposed to her plans. A chance encounter with a homeless man is about to change her life.

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Caption 29 [en]: and she's preparing for her French baccalaureate exam.
Caption 29 [fr]: et elle prépare son bac français.

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Lea & Lionel L - Le parc de Bercy - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Join Lionel and Léa, who are having a good time in the pleasant Bercy Park. It's a favorite for the locals, who congregate there as soon as the sun is out.

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Caption 51 [en]: I'm going to take the opportunity to... use a French expression
Caption 51 [fr]: Je vais en profiter pour... reprendre une expression française

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Adrien - Rue des Martyrs

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Adrien talks to us about Paris's Rue des Martyrs [Martyrs Street]. There, a hapless bishop, Saint Denis, was decapitated. He supposedly carried his severed head in his hand all the way up the street. But rest assured, the street has none of this gruesome past. It's filled with restaurants, bars, cafes, and cabarets to keep you entertained and happy.

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Caption 34 [en]: are French craftworkers
Caption 34 [fr]: sont des artisans français.

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Lionel - Le club de foot de Nancy - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us inside the AS Nancy-Lorraine soccer club in Velaine-en-Haye, where young men can study full-time and train to become professional soccer players.

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Caption 16 [en]: It is worth recalling that Nancy, for example, won the French Cup
Caption 16 [fr]: Il faut rappeler que Nancy, par exemple, a gagné la Coupe de France

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Voyage en France - Soissons - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Meet Daniel (still in sweltering Soissons) in front of the "Jardin du Haricot" (Bean Garden), which is not a garden but a confectionery store that sells a local specialty, a delicious jelly-bean-like candy. He also takes us to the old bishop's palace where Napoleon once stayed, then onto an eleventh-century abbey called the Abbaye de Saint-Jean-des-Vignes.

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Caption 8 [en]: during the tough hours of the French Campaign.
Caption 8 [fr]: pendant les dures heures de la Campagne de France.

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Lionel - Le club de foot de Nancy - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to a highly regarded soccer club where the shadow of certain famous soccer players like Rouyer and Platini still hangs. The Nancy-Lorraine Soccer Club grooms high school boys into professional soccer players, endeavoring to strike a balance between academic and sporting achievements.

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Caption 46 [en]: French, English, mathematics? -So...
Caption 46 [fr]: Le français, l'anglais, les mathématiques? -Alors...

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Lionel L - Le "Canard" a 100 ans

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Canard Enchaîné (Chained Duck) recently celebrated its 100-year anniversary. The independent satirical newspaper, known for its shocking headlines, survived many controversies and even censorship. It still has an avid fanbase today.

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Caption 10 [en]: that tarnished the French political world under all the Republics.
Caption 10 [fr]: qui ont éclaboussé le monde politique français sous toutes les Républiques.

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TV Vendée - Vendée : Pierre Zucchi, 104 ans, raconte ses mémoires

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

TV Vendée interviews 104-year-old Pierre Zucchi, an architect and musician who helped build Queen Elizabeth's private hospital. So far, he's written five autobiographical books that he plans to share with his children.

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Caption 8 [en]: to an Italian father and a French mother,
Caption 8 [fr]: d'un père italien et d'une mère française,

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Lea - La Cinémathèque française

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lea shows us one of the largest film libraries in the world, the Cinémathèque Française, which contains over forty thousand films. After the Cinémathèque's original home in the Palais de Chaillot burned down, it relocated to a brand-new facility in Paris's twelfth arrondissement.

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Caption 4 [en]: and I am in front of the Cinémathèque Française [French Film Library].
Caption 4 [fr]: et je me trouve devant la Cinémathèque française.

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Voyage en France - Soissons - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel takes us to Soissons, an ancient city that was the first capital of France. He shows us the memorial commemorating the victims of World War I and depicting the legend of the famous Soissons vase.

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Caption 32 [en]: this monument to the French and British armies
Caption 32 [fr]: ce monument aux armées françaises et britanniques

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Aldo - L'empoisonneuse du 2e

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Aldo takes us to a very special house on 23 Rue Beauregard in Paris. In that house lived a shady character, Catherine Deshayes, who was responsible for the murder of thousands of infants. She and 36 others were burned at the stake by Louis XIV.

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Caption 18 [en]: And the French people learn, uh... to their horror, and uh... fright,
Caption 18 [fr]: Et le peuple français apprend, euh... avec horreur, et euh... effroi,

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France 24 - Réchauffement climatique : un danger pour le vin français - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

In this video, Jean-Marc Touzard explains the effects of global warming on wine growing and the quality of the wine in France.

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Caption 5 [en]: on the quality of French wine
Caption 5 [fr]: sur la qualité du vin français

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Lionel - au club canin - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel says goodbye to his cousin Jean-Pierre and his "nephew" Chic. Jean-Pierre shares a few more thoughts on dog training, which he believes should be a joy for both dogs and their owners.

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Caption 47 [en]: as we say in French,
Caption 47 [fr]: comme nous disons en français

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Le saviez-vous? - Conjugaison des verbes du 2ème groupe au passé simple

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia teaches us how to conjugate second-group (-ir) verbs in the passé simple, or historical past. Unlike the more common passé composé, this tense is mainly used in literary works and in historical accounts.

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Caption 57 [en]: Your French is better.
Caption 57 [fr]: Votre français est meilleur.

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Le saviez-vous? - Les verbes du 2ème groupe les plus utilisés

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia explains how to conjugate second-group verbs in the present indicative. Regular verbs ending in -ir all follow the same conjugation rules.

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Caption 2 [en]: What are the most-used second-group verbs in the French language?
Caption 2 [fr]: Quels sont les verbes du deuxième groupe les plus utilisés dans la langue française?

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