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Le Journal - Le chalet

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Like old cheese and old wine, old wood is in high demand when it comes to building new chalets. A modern cabin built of ancient wood provides the perfect balance of the old and the new.

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Caption 1 [en]: This log was cut more than two hundred years ago.
Caption 1 [fr]: Ce tronc d'arbre a été coupé il y a plus de deux cents ans.

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Microcredit can make a big difference to people on welfare or those without good credit history. Case in point: this fifty-five-year-old man who succeeded in opening up his own pizzeria thanks to the help he received.

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Caption 10 [en]: until one organization believed in him and lent him six thousand five hundred euros,
Caption 10 [fr]: jusqu'à ce qu'une association lui fasse confiance et lui prête six mille cinq cents euros,

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Le Journal - École de pilotage

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Ten months of training go into learning to fly a helicopter, but less time is being spent aloft. More and more flight hours are logged in a hyper-realistic simulator that allows young pilots to hone their skills without ever leaving the earth.

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Caption 4 [en]: OK, I am going to present you on, uh... the axis of approach at three hundred meters.
Caption 4 [fr]: Bon, je vais vous présenter sur, euh... l'axe d'approche à trois cents mètres.

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Le Journal - Un hamburger très cher!

Difficulty: Beginner

France

New York based French chef Daniel Boulud brings his refined French culinary skills to that most typical American dish, the hamburger. Discover the secrets that make this burger the most expensive in the world.

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Caption 2 [en]: famous for having created the most expensive hamburger in the world: a hundred and twenty dollars.
Caption 2 [fr]: célèbre pour avoir créé le hamburger le plus cher du monde: cent vingt dollars.

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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 16 [en]: In all, Youssou N'Dour employs over two hundred workers in Senegal.
Caption 16 [fr]: Au total, Youssou N'Dour emploie plus de deux cents salariés au Sénégal.

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Mario Canonge - Ses propos - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Martinique

Viewer Discretion Advised

Mario has been influenced by Martinique, and he discusses what it means to represent and build upon French Caribbean rhythms on the world stage.

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Caption 57 [en]: There are three hundred fifty thousand of us in Martinique.
Caption 57 [fr]: Nous, on est trois cent cinquante mille sur la Martinique. -Ouais..c'est sûr.

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Le Journal - La sécheresse

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The summer months have been very dry in many parts of France for the past several years.

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Caption 20 [en]: Twenty years ago, we were three hundred thousand inhabitants.
Caption 20 [fr]: Il y a vingt ans on était trois cents mille habitants.

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Le Journal - Trop de pub dans la boîte à lettres

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Many French people claim they don’t like receiving junk mail, but marketers have done studies which indicate the opposite.

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Caption 4 [en]: In Paris when it's tightly packed like this, you can give out about three thousand five hundred.
Caption 4 [fr]: Sur Paris quand c'est très groupé comme ça, on peut en passer trois mille cinq cents à peu près.

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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 6 [en]: The Malgré-nous numbered one hundred thirty thousand. They could be found on the front lines
Caption 6 [fr]: Les Malgré-nous ont été cent trente mille. On les retrouve en première ligne

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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.

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Caption 19 [en]: which is a bottle from the year eighteen hundred seventy-four.
Caption 19 [fr]: qui est une bouteille du millésime mille huit cent soixante-quatorze.

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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 11 [en]: Here, volunteers prepare two thousand five hundred meals, three hundred thirty-five days a year.
Caption 11 [fr]: Ici, les bénévoles préparent deux mille cinq cents repas, trois cent trente-cinq jours par an.

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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 1 [en]: [Of] the one hundred and fifty thousand people carrying the virus, forty percent are women.
Caption 1 [fr]: [Sur] les cent cinquante mille personnes porteuses du virus, quarante pour cent sont des femmes.

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Le Journal - iDTGV - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Rail travel between Paris and Marseilles used to be a lengthy ordeal. In 1950, the road trip took over ten hours, as did the train. By 2001, the TGV needed only three hours.

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Caption 8 [en]: at a hundred sixty km an hour,
Caption 8 [fr]: à cent soixante kilomètres/heure,

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Le Journal - Les navigateurs du Vendée Globe - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Racing around the world by yourself often means a Christmas at sea. We drop in to the cabin of race leader Jean Le Cam, which has been decorated for the occasion, right down to a little tree.

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Caption 17 [en]: launched in his pursuit, by about two hundred kilometers.
Caption 17 [fr]: lancé à sa poursuite, d'environ deux cents kilomètres.

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Le Journal - Les navigateurs du Vendée Globe - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

France

The Vendée Globe single-handed around-the-world race is one of the most grueling tests of man’s endurance against nature, with a little help from technology. The race starts, and ends, in the Bay of Sables d’Olonne.

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Caption 14 [en]: nearly three hundred thousand people who came as early as dawn
Caption 14 [fr]: près de trois cent mille personnes venues dès l'aube

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