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Manon et Clémentine - Expressions toutes faites

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Today Manon and Clémentine present a number of "set expressions," or idiomatic phrases. Hopefully you're not feeling "soft in the knee"—there are a lot of useful expressions to learn in this lesson!

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Caption 77 [en]: And to tell you, regarding French: "Hang on, you're holding the right end [on the right track]!"
Caption 77 [fr]: Et vous dire, pour le français: "Accrochez-vous, vous tenez le bon bout!"

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Voyage dans Paris - Le Parc des Buttes Chaumont

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol takes us through the gorgeous Parc des Buttes Chaumont, which was built in 1867 for the World's Fair. He also points out some mysterious baskets with proverbs written on them hiding in different spots around the park, which just goes to show that you can find anything in Paris!

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Caption 37 [en]: and it's actually the headquarters of the French Communist Party.
Caption 37 [fr]: et c'est en fait le siège du parti communiste français.

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Musée du quai Branly - Quelques informations sur le musée

Difficulty: Beginner

France

The Quai Branly Museum in Paris is devoted to the indigenous art of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The building is surrounded by a massive plant wall and features a gorgeous anthropology library. Make sure to check it out during your next visit!

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Caption 6 [en]: Its architecture is very original. It was designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel.
Caption 6 [fr]: Son architecture est très originale. Elle a été conçue par l'architecte français Jean Nouvel.

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Manon et Clémentine - Conjugaison du verbe être

Difficulty: Beginner

France

To be or not to be? That is the question that our friends Manon and Clémentine address in this video on the verb être (to be). In their conjugations of the verb être, they demonstrate some of the concepts we covered in our lesson on liaisons.

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Caption 4 [en]: "Être" is one of the two auxiliaries of the French language.
Caption 4 [fr]: "Être" est l'un des deux auxiliaires de la langue française.

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Les zooriginaux - Repos corsé - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Alca suffers from exhaustion, so life at the zoo must go on without this devoted penguin for a while... Find out who will take his job!

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Caption 9 [en]: In everyday French, he is overworked. He doesn't sleep enough and drinks too much coffee.
Caption 9 [fr]: En français, il est surmené. Il ne dort pas assez et boit trop de café.

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Voyage en France - Saint-Mammès

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol is in the charming little town of Saint-Mammès, south of Paris. Its unique location at the confluence of the Seine and the Loing was a source of inspiration for the famous impressionist painter born of British parents, Alfred Sisley.

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Caption 6 [en]: of being the second most important French inland water shipping town,
Caption 6 [fr]: d'être la deuxième ville de la batellerie française,

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Voyage en France - Barbizon

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol takes us through the village of Barbizon, which has served as an inspiration to numerous artists and writers since the mid-1800s. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Robert Louis Stephenson are just a few of the many people who have fallen in love with this charming town.

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Caption 13 [en]: and, accompanied by their French friends,
Caption 13 [fr]: et, accompagnés de leurs amis français,

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Margaux et Manon - Conjugaison du verbe faire

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Our charming teachers, Margaux and Manon, will inflict the verb "faire" on you. They did their best to make this grammar lesson on conjugation relatively painless.

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Caption 5 [en]: The verb "faire" comes from Latin, like many words in the French language.
Caption 5 [fr]: Le verbe "faire" vient du latin comme de nombreux mots de la langue française.

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 7

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Vespuccia or America? In the last episode of this fun cartoon, we find out how the name of the new continent now known as "America" came about.

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Caption 26 [en]: And a few years later in the Vosges [French mountains]
Caption 26 [fr]: Et quelques années plus tard dans les Vosges,

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Voyage en France - La Normandie: Trouville

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol takes us on a stroll through Trouville, a town in Normandy that's famous for its boardwalk. A favorite of novelist Gustave Flaubert, this charming town also boasts some beautiful villas, a fishing port, and delicious restaurants.

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Caption 38 [en]: and French and foreign celebrities.
Caption 38 [fr]: et des célébrités françaises et étrangères.

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LCM - Concert: La Folia à l'abbaye Saint-Victor

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

The teenage violist Valentin Tournet plays an excerpt from Marin Marais' "Folies d'Espagne" (Follies of Spain) in this interview. He talks about the folia, an early music theme from Spain, as well as the passion for music he developed at a very young age.

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Caption 23 [en]: In... in French, we say "folies d'Espagne" [Follies of Spain], so, uh...
Caption 23 [fr]: En... en français, on dit "folies d'Espagne" donc, euh...

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Canal 32 - Les secrets des cailles des blés

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In order to find out more about the common quail, this team of technicians is capturing some male members of the species to track the birds' migratory patterns, reproduction rate, and total population.

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Caption 17 [en]: Last year, eight French departments had participated in this survey.
Caption 17 [fr]: L'an dernier, huit départements français avaient participé à cette enquête.

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Voyage en France - La Normandie: La Côte Fleurie

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol continues his tour of the Normandy coast with stops in Tourgéville, Houlgate, and Dives-sur-Mer. Along the way, he shows us some interesting houses built on top of German bunkers from World War II.

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Caption 38 [en]: of the traditional French bourgeois resorts of the Norman coast,
Caption 38 [fr]: des stations bourgeoises françaises traditionnelles de la côte normande,

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Voyage en France - La Normandie: Cabourg

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel Benchimol shows us around Cabourg in Normandy. There, you'll find a casino and the famous Grand Hôtel, where Marcel Proust stayed and found inspiration for his book In Search of Lost Time.

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Caption 4 [en]: in front of a hotel that is a monument of the French hotel industry.
Caption 4 [fr]: face à un hôtel qui est un monument de l'hôtellerie française.

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Oldelaf - La Tristitude

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Oldelaf bares his soul in his song "La Tristitude," a portmanteau that combines tristesse (sadness) and attitude (and a little solitude). We might call it "saditude." Listen to his lyrics and you'll surely recognize it. Ça fait mal!

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Caption 43 [en]: It's becoming a stylist, but for Eddie Mitchell [French singer with a distinctive hairstyle]
Caption 43 [fr]: C'est devenir styliste mais pour Eddie Mitchell

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