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Mika - Elle me dit

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this tongue-in-cheek song, "Elle me dit" (She Tells Me), Mika teams up with French actress Fanny Ardant, who plays an overbearing and critical mother.

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Caption 48 [fr]: Un jour je ne serai plus là
Caption 48 [en]: One day I won't be here anymore

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Enjoy browsing through this charming boutique in Brittany called "La Dilettante." There, you'll find an eclectic range of objects and paintings on driftwood, linen, and traditional canvas, all with a distinct nautical or country theme.

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Caption 8 [fr]: C'est de plus en plus rare, euh... de trouver des châssis en lin.
Caption 8 [en]: It's increasingly rare, uh... to find linen frames.

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Le saviez-vous? - Conversation entre étrangers

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In this video, Patricia plays two strangers in a dentist office waiting room. Her characters use the formal vous form for most of the video, but when they realize they aren't strangers after all, they switch to the informal tu.

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Caption 60 [fr]: Appelle-moi un peu plus tard
Caption 60 [en]: Call me a little later

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Lionel - La Cathédrale de Toul - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Still in Toul, Lionel takes a closer look at the Saint-Étienne Cathedral in Toul. Its construction started in the thirteen hundreds and was completed around 1495.

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Caption 3 [fr]: Et nous allons sans plus tarder découvrir cette charmante bourgade.
Caption 3 [en]: And we will without further delay discover this charming small town.

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TV8 Mont Blanc - Réchauffement climatique : Les stations sont préoccupées

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Global warming is threatening the ski industry in the French Alps. Many operators have to resort to snow guns to keep the slopes open as snowfall has halved in the last fifty years.

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Caption 48 [fr]: étirer un peu les... les enneigeurs un peu plus haut, euh...
Caption 48 [en]: kind of stretch the... the snow guns a little higher up, uh...

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Lionel L - Paris-Plage - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

During the summer, a portion of Paris reinvents itself as "Paris-Plage" [Paris Beach]. The capital turns into a vacation spot by providing water access and outdoor activities near the Seine and other waterways like the Canal de l'Ourcq.

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Caption 41 [fr]: un peu plus au nord de Paris où nous sommes habitués à être.
Caption 41 [en]: a little further north of Paris than we are accustomed to be.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Notre appartement est hanté - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Harold and Claire are having dinner when they hear some strange noises in their apartment again. Looking for a rational explanation, Harold asks their neighbors, Bastien and Solène. They seem to think that the apartment is haunted, but Harold has his doubts.

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Caption 17 [fr]: Non? D'accord. -Non, merci. J'ai plus faim.
Caption 17 [en]: No? OK. -No thanks. I am full.

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Le saviez-vous? - Jean de La Fontaine - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In this video you will hear a fable by Jean de La Fontaine, the most famous fable writer in French literature. "Le Chêne et le Roseau" (The Oak and the Reed) is a lesson in humility. The humble reed belies an inner strength that the oak does not possess. The oak's unbending nature proves to be its downfall.

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Caption 17 [fr]: Mais vous naissez le plus souvent
Caption 17 [en]: But you are born most often

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Grand Lille TV - Lille contre le massacre en Syrie

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Martine Aubry, the mayor of Lille, is part of a vast citizen mobilization to stop the massacres in Syria. Aubry's deputy director of human rights reflects on the mayor's speech during an official ceremony at the Lille city hall.

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Caption 28 [fr]: plus jamais ça, plus une telle barbarie.
Caption 28 [en]: never again, no more of such barbarity.

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Lionel L - Paris-Plage - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Every year, a portion of Paris turns into a miniature beach where people of all ages can play games and bask in the sun.

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Caption 7 [fr]: pour les enfants, les plus jeunes ou les moins jeunes, donc, euh...
Caption 7 [en]: for children, the youngest or the less young, so, uh...

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Notre appartement est hanté - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Claire is invited for a cup of tea at Solène's. She ignores Solène's warning about strange noises in her living room, but was this wise? Find out what happens in Claire's apartment upon her return.

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Caption 1 [fr]: Quelques jours plus tard, Claire est rassurée.
Caption 1 [en]: A few days later, Claire is reassured.

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Le saviez-vous? - Jean de La Fontaine - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Jean de La Fontaine's fables are all-time classics that have been in the French school curriculum for many years, at all levels. It's safe to say that every French person knows at least one of his fables.

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Caption 29 [fr]: Puis on les étudie à nouveau plus tard à l'adolescence.
Caption 29 [en]: Then we study them again later in adolescence.

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Le saviez-vous? - Les adjectifs et les pronoms possessifs en exemple

Difficulty: Newbie

France

Patricia demonstrates how to use possessive adjectives and pronouns... using bananas!

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Caption 13 [fr]: Tu en veux plus?
Caption 13 [en]: Do you want more?

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Le Plan Voisin - Le projet fou auquel Paris a échappé

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Paris would be an entirely different city today if the architect Le Corbusier had carried out his ambitious project for the capital. But Minister of Culture André Malraux put a stop to this and set out to preserve the historic heritage of Paris by introducing a new law. Find out what Paris could have looked like in this video!

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Caption 4 [fr]: reste sans aucun doute l'un des plus fous imaginé pour Paris.
Caption 4 [en]: remains without a doubt one of the craziest ever imagined for Paris.

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Le Jour où tout a basculé - Notre appartement est hanté - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Claire and Harold go to bed exhausted after a long day of moving in to their new apartment. While Harold succumbs to sleep, Claire is wide awake. She investigates some strange noises coming from the living room.

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Caption 4 [fr]: que les précédents locataires soient pas restés plus longtemps.
Caption 4 [en]: that the previous tenants didn't stay longer.

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