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Le saviez-vous? - La couleur blanche et ses expressions - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia tells us a fun story peppered with expressions involving the word blanc/blanche (white). You might recognize some of them from English, such as hisser le drapeau blanc (to raise the white flag), but others are a bit more difficult to decipher.

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Caption 36 [fr]: Allons prendre un petit blanc ou une bière blanche.
Caption 36 [en]: Let's go have a little glass of white [wine] or a white beer.

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Lionel - à Lindre-Basse - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Jean-Pierre gives Lionel some more information about the habits of storks. These migratory birds can be trained to be sedentary so visitors have a chance to see them year-round.

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Caption 57 [fr]: dans le bec du petit ci'... petit cigogneau.
Caption 57 [en]: in the beak of the little st'... little stork chick.

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Maître Gims - Sapés comme jamais ft. Niska

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Maître Gims teams up with Niska for "Sapés comme jamais." Dressed as a sapeur, a sort of Congolese fashionista, Maître Gims embraces his Congolese identity with panache and impeccable style.

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Caption 39 [fr]: "Handek" à ta go [gonzesse], sale petit coquin, t'es cocu
Caption 39 [en]: "Handek" ["watch out" in Arabic] for your chick, dirty little bastard, you're a cuckold

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Banlieues françaises - jeunes et policiers, l'impossible réconciliation? - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

France

Journalists spent a week in Aulnay-sous-Bois interviewing young people about ongoing issues and clashes with the police. In the Cité des Trois Mille district, which includes 3,000 public housing units, cultural and sporting organizations are stepping in to make up for the lack of public services.

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Caption 62 [fr]: Des blagues racistes, un petit coup...
Caption 62 [en]: Racist jokes, a little punch...

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Le saviez-vous? - La couleur noire et ses expressions

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Patricia is in a dark mood.... Learn some expressions using the word noir (dark, black) and express your dark feelings in French!

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Caption 42 [fr]: Demain j'irai prendre un petit noir avec lui.
Caption 42 [en]: Tomorrow I'll go have a little black coffee with him.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mes grands-parents sont infidèles - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Louise is doing all she can to rescue her grandparents' marriage. She doesn't want them to throw away the forty-two years they had together. She storms off to talk to her grandmother, having had no luck with her grandfather.

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Caption 22 [fr]: Ah ben, excuse-moi d'être un petit peu étonné, quand même!
Caption 22 [en]: Oh, well, forgive me for being a little bit surprised, anyhow!

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Voyage en France - Montmorency - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Daniel takes us to Montmorency, a historic town in the Paris region that dates all the way back to the ninth century. Among many other attractions, the town features a public garden dedicated to Lucie Aubrac, one of the most famous figures of the French Resistance during World War II.

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Caption 40 [fr]: Un clocheton c'est un petit peu comme un clocher mais en... en plus petit.
Caption 40 [en]: A pinnacle is a little bit like a bell tower but... smaller.

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Voyage en France - Chambourcy

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Discover Chambourcy with Daniel Benchimol. Chambourcy is a small town on the outskirts of Paris that is full of charming surprises. An interesting garden called Le Désert de Retz will take you back through time with eclectic constructions reminiscent of extinct civilizations.

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Caption 45 [fr]: Il faut s'organiser un petit peu.
Caption 45 [en]: You have to get organized a little bit.

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Lionel - à Lindre-Basse - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel and his cousin Jean-Pierre visit a nature park in the Saulnois region with some interesting wildlife. Storks are a major attraction in the region. Unlike other storks, these storks don't migrate, but stay year-round.

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Caption 82 [fr]: Le petit c'est le cigogneau, hein je crois? -Oui.
Caption 82 [en]: The little one [stork] is a "cigogneau," right, I think? -Yes.

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Contes de fées - Le chat botté - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the second part of "Le Chat Botté" (Puss in Boots), the cat arranges for a poor boy to meet and marry a princess. He sets up an elaborate scheme that works perfectly according to plan.

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Caption 30 [fr]: puisse se transformer en quelque chose d'aussi petit qu'une souris.
Caption 30 [en]: can transform into something as small as a mouse.

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Voyage en France - Fourqueux

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Join Daniel Benchimol on his tour of the quaint town of Fourqueux. There, you will find a magnificent house where Victor Hugo, the famous French poet and writer, once stayed. Adding to the historic atmosphere, old road markers and vintage hand-painted advertising signs are a great reminder of a colorful past.

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Caption 12 [fr]: C'est déjà un petit morceau d'histoire à elle seule.
Caption 12 [en]: It's already a small piece of history on its own.

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Lionel L - Les voies sur berges

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Every summer, the city of Paris organizes activities to entertain Parisians who don't go on holiday. On the banks of the Seine, you'll be able to play chess or checkers and feel like you're on vacation. There are also plenty of activities for children.

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Caption 20 [fr]: faire un petit peu de musculation.
Caption 20 [en]: do a little muscle-building.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Mon père n'est pas mort - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Guillaume finally calls Adèle back, and they set out to look for their father in his usual haunts. Will they find him?

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Caption 34 [fr]: Ça fait... trente ans que le petit milieu bordelais me regarde.
Caption 34 [en]: It's been... thirty years that the small-town minded people of Bordeaux have been looking at me.

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Lionel - Voyage en train - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

If you wish to travel in France by train, you will find Lionel's video very useful. He will teach you the necessary vocabulary for buying a train ticket from a ticket machine. Happy travels!

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Caption 11 [fr]: d'opter pour un petit trajet
Caption 11 [en]: to opt for a short trip

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Lionel - Les bières artisanales Coin Coin

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Lionel is at a local market in Toul near Alsace, where he samples a beer from a local micro-brewery that sells its products at several markets in the area. The beer goes by the name of "Coin Coin" ("Quack Quack") for no other reason than catching people's attention. The young lady, who brews the beer herself, reassures Lionel that consuming her beer will not give him webbed feet...

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Caption 34 [fr]: Coin Coin. Je prendrai un petit, euh... une petite documentation?
Caption 34 [en]: "Coin Coin." I'll take a little, uh... a little documentation?

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