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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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Voyage en France - Reims - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims is one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture, and it's just one of many interesting things to discover in the northern French city of Reims. Daniel Benchimol walks us through this gorgeous city in this video.

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Caption 3 [fr]: Nous nous trouvons maintenant sur la place la plus symbolique de la ville,
Caption 3 [en]: We now find ourselves on the city's most symbolic square,

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

He may not know it yet, but Amerigo Vespucci's life is about to change. Though he works as a successful banker, Amerigo feels restless and aspires to greater things. Luckily, Lorenzo de' Medici has offered him the opportunity of a lifetime: a trip to Spain to help Christopher Columbus prepare for an expedition to the Indies.

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Caption 40 [fr]: avec un plus grand nombre de navires.
Caption 40 [en]: with a greater number of ships.

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Voyage en France - La Normandie: Honfleur

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Honfleur is a Norman town whose beauty was immortalized by the Impressionists. Come take a trip with Daniel Benchimol through this historic town that inspired an entire art movement.

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Caption 3 [fr]: sur la côte normande et plus précisément à Honfleur,
Caption 3 [en]: on the Norman coast, and more precisely in Honfleur,

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Canal 32 - Les secrets des cailles des blés

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In order to find out more about the common quail, this team of technicians is capturing some male members of the species to track the birds' migratory patterns, reproduction rate, and total population.

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Caption 19 [fr]: Plus le réseau sera étendu, plus la quantité d'oiseaux bagués sera importante.
Caption 19 [en]: The wider the network is, the more the amount of banded birds will be important.

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Il était une fois: les Explorateurs - 10. Amerigo Vespucci - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

It's back to the past, with the Once Upon a Time series. How did America get its name? Take a trip back to Renaissance Italy in this first episode of The Explorers to find out.

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Caption 42 [fr]: Mais alors, la terre serait plus petite qu'on ne le croit?
Caption 42 [en]: But then, the earth would be smaller than we think?

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