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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Je me suis fait voler ma musique - Part 6

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Louise is in tears after learning that a stranger has claimed the rights to her music. After meeting him face to face, she's shocked to find a picture of him in Julie's apartment...

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Caption 78 [fr]: Elle réalise que sa liaison avec Mathieu
Caption 78 [en]: She realizes that her affair with Mathieu

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Français avec Nelly - Les faux amis - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Nelly discusses some more faux amis (false cognates) in English and French. You'll need to be especially careful with some of these, such as "excited" and excité.

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Caption 13 [fr]: En français [sic: en anglais] ça signifie avoir une liaison avec quelqu'un, donc
Caption 13 [en]: In French [sic: In English] this means to have an affair with someone, so

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Le Monde - Joséphine Baker résistante ? - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Josephine Baker, the legendary singer, actress, and cabaret dancer, played a very active role in World War Two in France. Using her celebrity as a cover, she helped with counterintelligence efforts during the French Resistance.

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Caption 75 [fr]: et assurera la liaison avec Intelligence Services.
Caption 75 [en]: and will ensure the liaison with Intelligence Services.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Des hôtes pas comme les autres - Part 6

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Valentine hatched a plan to compromise Jeanne with her so-called fiancé, but Jeanne has a plan of her own that will turn the situation to her own advantage.

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Caption 25 [fr]: Votre fiancée a une liaison avec mon mari.
Caption 25 [en]: Your fiancée is having an affair with my husband.

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Marie & Jeremy - Des erreurs de la langue française

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

While Jeremy tries to tell a joke, Marie schools him on adjective agreement and other spelling and grammar pitfalls. Even native French speakers make mistakes!

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Caption 55 [fr]: La liaison est interdite avec le H aspiré,
Caption 55 [en]: Liaison is forbidden with the aspirated H,

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À l'audience: Mon chirurgien était ivre - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

New revelations about the relationship between Dr. Cujasse and nurse Julie Wagner complicate the case.

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Caption 57 [fr]: Oui. J'ai eu une liaison avec lui.
Caption 57 [en]: Yes. I had an affair with him.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - À la recherche de mon passé - Part 8

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Julia and Jean make sure that Luc and Pauline won't get away with their crime. Unbeknownst to them, Julia and Jean record their private conversation, thus sealing their fate.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Pauline a une liaison avec Luc depuis des mois.
Caption 1 [en]: Pauline has been having an affair with Luc for months.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Ma mère fait tout pour briser mon couple - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Gabriela works as a housekeeper for a middle-class family. Yann, the son of homeowner Sabine, falls in love with Gabriela and gradually the relationship blossoms, until it is no longer a secret. Sabine thinks Gabriela is not worthy of her son's interest.

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Caption 33 [fr]: verrait d'un très mauvais œil cette liaison.
Caption 33 [en]: would see this affair in a very bad eye [light].

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Le saviez-vous? - L'élision - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In part two of her lesson on elisions, Patricia will help you navigate the rules of elisions with multiple examples. They're an essential part of French speech that will no longer be a mystery!

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Caption 25 [fr]: une autre particularité de la langue française: la liaison
Caption 25 [en]: another peculiarity of the French language: the liaison,

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Espion dans l'immeuble - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Édouard's life is starting to unravel as the awful truth comes out. Benoît makes some startling revelations to Sybille, but she is not entirely surprised. It's not all gloom and doom for her, however, as an old flame is rekindled between them...

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Caption 13 [fr]: Notre liaison avait duré plusieurs mois. Je lui avais même promis de quitter Sybille.
Caption 13 [en]: Our affair lasted several months. I had even promised her that I would leave Sybille.

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Le saviez-vous? - La poésie française: Baudelaire - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia introduces one of France's most renowned poets, Charles Baudelaire. His major work, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), is still the most studied poetry collection in French schools and was as much a source of controversy as admiration in his day. Baudelaire's love affair with his muse, actress Jeanne Duval, was a main source of inspiration for Les Fleurs du Mal.

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Caption 35 [fr]: Sa liaison amoureuse avec une jeune comédienne métisse, Jeanne Duval,
Caption 35 [en]: His love affair with a young mixed-race actress, Jeanne Duval,

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De nouvelles découvertes avec Marion - Le Parc de la Villette

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Marion takes us to Parc de la Villette, one of the largest parks in Paris. If you want something more than just a nature walk, you won't be disappointed here! Quirky modern structures and unique perspectives will catch your attention, and the Geode and the Museum of Science and Technology will help satisfy your intellectual curiosity.

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Caption 7 [fr]: et deux passerelles piétonnes font la liaison entre le nord et le sud.
Caption 7 [en]: and two pedestrian footbridges make the connection between the north and the south.

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Sakhoura et Lily - Conjugaison du verbe apprendre

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Our friends Sakhoura and Lily will teach you to conjugate the verb apprendre (to teach or to learn) in a variety of tenses. They also elaborate on some of the things we covered in our Yabla French lesson on liaisons.

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Caption 11 [fr]: J'imagine que tu as remarqué la... la liaison aux trois personnes du pluriel,
Caption 11 [en]: I imagine that you noticed the... the liaison in the three persons of the plural:

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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 19 [fr]: On dit "vous êtes" car on fait la liaison avec le "s" final de "vous".
Caption 19 [en]: We say "vous êtes" because we make the liaison with the final "s" of "vous."

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Le Journal - Viktor Bout

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Thai police force caught a very big fish: the world’s most wanted arms dealer, Viktor Bout. The man who inspired the film Lord of War starring Nicolas Cage was repatriated after 12 years to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.. And it seems he may have been protected by certain intelligence agencies — but which ones?

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Caption 7 [fr]: Il a été appréhendé pour approvisionnement d'armes en liaison avec un groupe terroriste.
Caption 7 [en]: He was apprehended for supplying arms in connection with a terrorist group.

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