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🏛 The “Académie française”, the French language headquarters, the linguistic mother ship… Or is it really? Since the 17th century, the forty “immortels” (members of the Academy) have ruled the language. But for a few decades now, their power and influence have been heavily challenged. After all, the francophone world has changed quite a bit in four centuries. 🔗 Official website of the Académie fr...

🥊 When the body and the mind merge into one ultimate sport, we get chessboxing. Six rounds of chess, five rounds of boxing. But who came up with such an unusual discipline? Turns out, it was first imagined in a French comic book from the eighties: la “Trilogie Nikopol” by Enki Bilal… 🎬 Watch Redbull's documentary on chessboxing: https://youtu.be/VZzj4ICKsF4 ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please...

🚄 Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the TGV, Train à Grande Vitesse (high-speed) (subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar). The first trip from Paris to Lyon was made possible in 1981 by years of research on how to double the speed of regular trains. Nowadays, the speed has even tripled, reaching over 500 km/h on some lines. It g...

💇‍♀️ Above every “haute couture” chef d’œuvre, there is a “haute coiffure” tour de force. With the Paris Fashion Week approaching (September 26), let’s give a shoutout to the hair artists by exploring the history of hairstyles in France and Europe. Very much linked to social status and heritage in the old days, haircuts have drastically evolved over time. (Sometimes in funny ways.) But do they st...

🎹 What do Quincy Jones, George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla have in common? You guessed right, their music professor: Nadia Boulanger. But what made a jazz, a classical music and a tango master travel all the way to Paris to study with her? And to be honest, there are plenty more composers who flew and sailed from far away to meet her, like Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, Michel L...

👅 How many French words do you use on a daily basis? Well, rest assured, francophones use A TON of English words all the time, it sounds cool. And they are going even one step further: using old French words passed to the English vocabulary, back into French with an English accent. Think “tennis” :). This is the weekly episode about the real Frenglish (subtitles are available in French and Englis...

🎥 Let’s kick off the new school year with a cult film about kids in school. And what a film! This 1959 semi-biographical master piece from the French New Wave by François Truffaut was nominated for an Oscar, as well as the Palme d’Or in Cannes, and is #9 in TimeOut’s 100 best French movies of all time ( https://www.timeout.com/paris/en/film/best-french-movies ). There are countless rankings onlin...

🏛 Art deco, like modernism, was much more than an architectural movement, it was almost a lifestyle. It shaped the outside and the inside of many buildings and mansions of the first half of the 20th century, and it was also directly connected to the birth of cubism and futurism and many other art movements. Here is a short episode about the style that was born in Western Europe and expanded worldw...

🌍 Do you like games? Do you like the French language? Then this might interest you: les Jeux de la francophonie. Every four years — with flexibility in case of worldwide pandemic —, French-speaking countries around the world send their best young athletes and artists to compete in a fantastic cultural celebration. Next destination: Kinshasa 2022. 🇫🇷 If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: -...

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If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe - share More about this year's celebrations in Galicia, Spain: https://www.spain.info/fr/evenements/fete-apotre-saint-jacques/ French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speak...

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe - share French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check...

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe - share Watch Jean Noté singing La Marseillaise in 1907: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:La_Marseillaise_(1907).webm French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers...

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If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup + subscribe + share on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hfyPDYDAQLOpvYczuuhSQ French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to...

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup + subscribe + share on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hfyPDYDAQLOpvYczuuhSQ French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to...

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup + subscribe + share on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hfyPDYDAQLOpvYczuuhSQ French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to...

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup + subscribe + share on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hfyPDYDAQLOpvYczuuhSQ Watch the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paKh2Pztvy8 Practice your French (advanced) with Youssoupha: https://blogs.mediapart.fr/lepistolero/blog/220521/revise-ton-brevet-avec-ecris-mon-nom-en-bleu-d...

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If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup + subscribe + share on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hfyPDYDAQLOpvYczuuhSQ No, we shouldn't celebrate Napoleon: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/france-year-of-napoleon.html Yes, we should celebrate Napoleon: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-cant-erase-napoleon-however...

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