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TV Tours - Hollywood sur Loire!

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

When a film shoot comes to town, it often brings a lot of jobs along with it, from hiring locals as extras to enlisting the services of caterers, hotels, and other businesses. The numerous film shoots near the town of Saint-Cyr-du-Gault have supported the area's economy and put many people to work.

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Caption 3 [fr]: Dans la région, les tournages sont nombreux et sur les plus grands,
Caption 3 [en]: In the region, film shoots are numerous, and on the biggest ones,

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Il était une fois: Notre Terre - 9. Les écosystèmes - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the first episode of this new cartoon series, Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth, deforestation issues are addressed from outer space... Just grow a few trees in a spaceship and plant them on land later!

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Caption 3 [fr]: La plus belle de toutes, notre terre
Caption 3 [en]: The most beautiful of all, our earth

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Alsace 20 - Grain de Sel: le Lycée hôtelier Alexandre Dumas

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Nicolas introduces some specialties of the Alsace region at the Alexandre Dumas Catering, Hospitality, and Tourism College. In this episode, pastry chefs bake some delicious cookies called "mannele" and "bredele." It's never too early to start planning your next New Year's fête!

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Caption 16 [fr]: pour éviter toute trace, parce que c'est plus joli, c'est plus sympa.
Caption 16 [en]: to avoid any marks, because it's prettier, it's nicer.

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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 27 [fr]: Vous avez aussi un choix de restaurants qui sont tous plus charmants les uns que les autres
Caption 27 [en]: You also have a choice of restaurants that are each more charming than the next

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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 8 [fr]: Pour faire vite, on ne va vous infliger que les trois temps les plus courants de l'indicatif.
Caption 8 [en]: To go quickly, we'll only inflict on you the three most common tenses of the indicative mood.

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

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JT - Le noël du Secours populaire

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This video describes a Christmas celebration at the Secours Populaire, an organization in France that helps underprivileged children and families, without passing judgment on their plight. Here they are celebrating Christmas with a big snack, gifts, chocolates, and a magic show.

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Caption 10 [fr]: et le plus important, une distribution de chocolats et de cadeaux.
Caption 10 [en]: and most importantly, a distribution of chocolates and gifts.

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LCM - Visite du marché de Noël de Marseille

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

A traditional Provençal Christmas would not be complete without the Santons Festival. In Marseille, you can wander through the downtown market and marvel at these Christmas clay figurines and enjoy the true spirit of Christmas.

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Caption 10 [fr]: une situation qui devrait être plus rentable
Caption 10 [en]: a situation that should be more profitable

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TV Tours - Une seconde vie pour vos sapins de Noël?

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

This nurseryman from Cinq-Mars-la-Pile urges Christmas tree buyers to do the right thing: buy a root balled tree so that it can be replanted the following year!

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Caption 6 [fr]: qui permet d'avoir, euh... une durée de vie, euh... plus importante à l'intérieur.
Caption 6 [en]: which allows it to have, uh... a longer life expectancy, uh... indoors.

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Amerigo and his crew continue exploring the New World. Their water is almost gone. Fortunately, the river they're sailing on turns out to be the Amazon, so they won't die of thirst after all.

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Caption 7 [fr]: Ah, y a plus une goutte d'eau.
Caption 7 [en]: Ah, there's not a drop of water left.

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Oldelaf - Courseulles-sur-Mer

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The French singer Oldelaf took his girlfriend to the Normandy beach town of Courseulles-sur-Mer, but their time there wasn't quite as romantic as it could have been. Find out what happened in this charming music video!

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Caption 29 [fr]: On a pris la voiture garée plus bas
Caption 29 [en]: We took the car parked further down

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Amerigo Vespucci sets foot for the first time on the American continent. He collects all manner of plants and animals, only to drop them into the Amazon River.

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Caption 40 [fr]: Le chocolat non plus?
Caption 40 [en]: Not even chocolate?

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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 16 [fr]: euh... dans la péninsule ibérique et qui s'est propagé plus tard en Europe.
Caption 16 [en]: uh... in the Iberian peninsula and that later spread in Europe.

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TV Sud - Fête de la Tortue 2012

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

If you're a turtle lover, you may be interested in the Fête de la tortue (Turtle Festival), which takes place in a different French town every year. This year's festival was in July, so you and your turtles will have to wait for next year's!

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Caption 15 [fr]: ce qui nous permet de toucher un public plus... plus large, bien entendu.
Caption 15 [en]: which allows us to reach an audience that's more... more wide, of course.

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Le Mans TV - Benjamin Perrot: "La rébellion du combiné"

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Overwhelmed by the amount of text messages and other technological annoyances in his life, singer-songwriter Benjamin Perrot uses this acoustic session on Le Mans TV as an opportunity to "disconnect." Don't let your phone distract you while watching this video!

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Caption 21 [fr]: Y a plus une seule table de bistro
Caption 21 [en]: There's no longer a single bistro table

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