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TV8 Mont Blanc - Météo du 26 octobre 2010

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Mont Blanc is not only the highest mountain in the Alps, but also in all of Europe. This weather report will give you an idea of what a typical October feels like in the area surrounding this giant: chilly but fairly sunny, with the first hints of snow.

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Caption 5 [fr]: Il fallait monter à peu près mille mètres d'altitude pour trouver les premiers sols tout blancs.
Caption 5 [en]: You had to climb to an altitude of about a thousand meters to find the first totally white ground.

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Agriculture verticale - TerraSphere - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Canada

Georges Laraque, one of the most renowned hockey players in the NHL, tells us about an innovative project: vertical farming, whose technology will limit the use of natural resources needed to grow plants.

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Caption 19 [fr]: Et tout cela est TerraSphere.
Caption 19 [en]: And all this is TerraSphere.

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Nom d'une Rue - Rue de la Roquette

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The rue de la Roquette, in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, is so named because it is either full of weapons or full of lettuce – or neither! Find out the history behind this ancient street and learn the various meanings of the word roquette in this video.

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Caption 10 [fr]: Oh tiens... oh, on va fabriquer des roquettes, on va bombarder la ville. J'en sais rien du tout.
Caption 10 [en]: Oh well... oh, we're going to make rockets, we're going to bomb the city. I have no idea.

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Actu Vingtième - Le vide-grenier

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

A vide-grenier (“empty-attic”) is a combination of a flea market and a yard sale: a place where anyone can rent a booth and sell all the old things they don’t need anymore. Come see what the residents of this Parisian neighborhood are selling!

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Caption 1 [fr]: Vous trouvez ça bien, vous madame, le... le vide-grenier... pour le quartier, tout ça?
Caption 1 [en]: Do you find this to be a good thing, ma'am, the... empty-attic [yard sale]... for the neighborhood, all that?

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Le Journal - Charles Jourdan

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Good news for lovers of luxury footwear—but even more so for the work force of the French town Romans: the factory of designer brand Charles Jourdan will reopen its doors (after being forced to close several months prior) thanks to an investment from a Costa Rican firm.

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Caption 5 [fr]: Charles Jourdan va enfin renaître de ses cendres et c'est tout ce qu'on voulait.
Caption 5 [en]: Charles Jourdan will finally rise up from its ashes, and that's all that we wanted.

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TLT Toulouse - Dorfman mis en scène à Toulouse

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Viewer Discretion Advised

Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the Maiden is no light fare, detailing the horrors of both violence and military dictatorship. It is partly based on Schubert’s famous string quartet of the same name.

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Caption 10 [fr]: et tout ça au son de Schubert.
Caption 10 [en]: and all of this to the sound of Schubert.

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Canal 32 - Mesnil-Saint-Loup : moines artisans

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Nowadays, even monks need to make a living. These five pious men, from the parish of Mesnil-Saint-Loup, make theirs by selling beautiful handmade pottery and ceramics for anywhere between five and two-hundred euros. They even maintain a website.

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Caption 13 [fr]: hein, qui sont donc déjà tout... tout prêts,
Caption 13 [en]: you know, which are already all... all ready,

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Le Journal - Manuels scolaires

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Does your textbook ever seem more confusing than enlightening, more wrong than right? A recent study showed that some French textbooks could use a little fact-checking.

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Caption 6 [fr]: C'est en tout cas ce que dénonce Emmanuel Davidenkoff.
Caption 6 [en]: In any case that's what Emmanuel Davidenkoff alleges.

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Alsace 20 - Pourquoi le bio est-il plus cher?

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

As in the United States, the price of organic products is relatively high in France. But hopefully this will not be the case for too much longer, as the French Minister of Agriculture has just pledged an investment of six million euros in the organic sector. Learn more about the state of organic farming in France in this video.

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Caption 3 [fr]: C'est tout simplement les bons plans.
Caption 3 [en]: It's very simply good tips.

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Alsace 20 - Mangez bien, mangez alsacien!

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Armande has turned an old farm near Strasbourg into a mouth-watering country store complete with live rabbits and ducks. According to Armande, it’s also one of the few places to get food in her village, so chances are business is booming!

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Caption 6 [fr]: Tout de suite, en fait, dès que je suis arrivée ici, euh...
Caption 6 [en]: Right away, in fact, as soon as I arrived here, uh...

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Parigot - La cuisine

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Michel, co-owner and head chef at Parigot, shows us how to make his very own tuna tartare. We can see why it’s so popular!

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Caption 3 [fr]: Et je vais vous montrer un petit plat tout simple à faire qui s'appelle le thon tartare, mais à ma façon.
Caption 3 [en]: And I am going to show you a little dish that's very simple to make called tuna tartare, but my version of it.

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Bastille Day NYC - Le 14 juillet à New York

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

No Quatorze Juillet would be complete without pétanque and Lillet—and that doesn’t just go for France. Here we talk with some of the people attending a Bastille Day celebration in New York City.

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Caption 19 [fr]: vous avez Lillet, euh... et, et euh... et tout le reste... à la... et la bonne humeur française,
Caption 19 [en]: you have Lillet, uh... and, and uh... and all the rest... to the... and the good French spirit

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Actu Vingtième - Foire aux oignons

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

France

Viewer Discretion Advised

This video is not for those who tear up easily. At this foire aux oignons (onion fair), you’ll learn how onions can predict the weather, how to cook them, and what scandalous meanings the word “onion” can have in French.

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Caption 3 [fr]: C'est bon pour tout!
Caption 3 [en]: It's good for everything!

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Jean-Marc - Études et travail

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Just how did Jean-Marc get the money for that beautiful car and those fancy ski trips? The answer involves a roundabout trek to the open outcry auction market of the French stock exchange (“la Bourse”). So could we say that Wall Street too resembles a “playground for grownups”?

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Caption 30 [fr]: car, euh... dans les moments où y avait beaucoup de travail, euh, tout le monde était sérieux et euh...
Caption 30 [en]: because, uh... during those times when there was a lot of work, uh, everyone was serious and uh...

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Voyage en France - Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Come take a trip to St-Jean-de-Luz, a beautiful resort town along the Atlantic in the Basque country of southwest France. Don’t forget to bring a towel!

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Caption 32 [fr]: Elles sont très agréables; vous n'avez pas du tout la densité de population touristique
Caption 32 [en]: They are very pleasant; you don't at all have the density of tourist population

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