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FV 133 : (Part 2) The “vin de pomme” from Pays Basque
French Voices Podcast | Learn French | Interviews with Native French Speakers | French Culture
05/15/22 • 34 min
In this second part of my interview with Manolo we will talk about his confrérie (a society of people who get together to perpetuate a tradition, a skill): la Confrérie des amateurs de Sagarno de la Bidassoa. This society is currently under process to be part of the Unesco intangible cultural heritage list. Learn the reasons behind the decline then the revival of the art of making “vin de pomme”, the types of apples used for the process, the amount of wine produced by the fellowship. You’ll also find out why drinking wine gives you headaches!
Thank you Mike for putting me in touch with Manolo! If you too know someone who would be a fantastic guest for French Voices, someone with a passion they would love to share, please get in touch!
Vocab List
aléas (nm plur) = hazards, vagaries, contingencies, risks
ascenseur social (nm) = social mobility
cahier des charges (nm) = (bill of) specifications
casse-croûte (nm) (fam) = snack
confrère (nm) = colleague ; fellow, brother
confrérie (nf) = brotherhood, fellowship ; association, society, guild
filer entre les doigts (de qn) = to slip through (sb)’s fingers
grosso modo = roughly
moine (nm) = monk
prendre l’apéro (fam) = prendre l’apéritif = to have an aperitif
pressoir (nm) = press
regain (nm) = renewal, revival, resurgence ; rise
rentable = profitable, money-making
revendiquer sa basquitude = to claim one’s basque origins
soufre (nm) = sulphur
valoir le coup = to be worth it
verger (nm) = orchard
Links and Resources
- Page Facebook : Bidasoako Sargadozaleen Kofradia
- French Voices episode 74 : “La Fine Mousse – the world of craft beer“
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FV 108 INTERVIEW: Polyglot Steve Kaufmann about language learning (Part 2)
French Voices Podcast | Learn French | Interviews with Native French Speakers | French Culture
04/16/20 • 19 min
Interview with Steve Kaufmann, one of YouTube’s most famous polyglots and co-founder of LingQ, an online platform offering language-learning courses in 14 languages.
Steve has learnt around 20 (yes, 20!!!) languages in his life. Find out more about his background, how he came to learn French and, more importantly, about his method to learn a new language.
This interview is a must-listen for every language student. It was fascinating to discuss language learning with Steve and compare our approaches. I hope you’ll get great tips out of it as well as a motivation boost
Note: Get the transcript of the full interview (Parts 1 and 2) for the price of one!
Vocab List
bancal,e (adj) = wobbly
base de donnés (nf) = database
en ligne = online
langue cible (nf) = target language
sauvegarder = to save (a file, a document)
s’habituer (à ...) = to get used (to ...)
surligner = to highlight
Links & Resources
- Find Steve on YouTube
- Watch the full interview on Youtube!
- Get an exclusive 35% discount off LingQ’s 1 Year Plan
- “What type of teacher do you have?” (killing teacher vs killer teacher)
- Introduction to the subjunctive (Part 1)
- Masculine or Feminine? Telling the Gender of French Nouns
Did you like this podcast? You can support my work by leaving a review on iTunes. Your kind words warm my heart and also help me be found by more passionate learners of French. Merci beaucoup!
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FV 099 : Experimenting with the world’s most powerful magnets
French Voices Podcast | Learn French | Interviews with Native French Speakers | French Culture
11/01/18 • 38 min
Meet Audrey, a French researcher working at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. Audrey will explain to you what she does there! What I love with French Voices is that you get to hear a variety of voices and accents, but also learn about so many topics and professions. Today is one of these episodes dealing with a highly specific topic, something you may even not have heard of before, and it is a GREAT exercise for your comprehension skills.
From Grenoble in France to Florida: how did Audrey get into fundamental research? Audrey is testing and studying materials by submitting them high magnetic fields, extreme pressure and extreme cold in order to understand their properties. Listen to understand why this is done and why it is important! Audrey will give us some examples of practical applications so you can understand what types of materials are now used in daily life for their properties. You’ll find out how the hot plate of your stove works! MRI scans are another revolution made possible by this essential work of research.
If you’re in the US, you may want to visit the laboratory after listening to the episode. It is possible!
Vocab List
azote (nm) = nitrogen
centrale nucléaire (nf) = nuclear power plant
champ magnétique (nm) = magnetic field
composant (nm) = component
conducteur/trice (adj) = conductive
cuivre (nm) = copper
doctorat (nm) = PHd
échantillon (nm) = sample
expérience (nf) = experiment
IRM (nf) = MRI scan
isolant (nm) = insulating material
plaque de cuisson (nf) = hotplate
Questions:
- What does “recherche fondamentale” mean?
- What unit is used to measure magnetic fields?
- Why is it impossible to reach the absolute zero in temperature?
Answers:
- It means that you research/experiment without having a direct application in mind. This is not the goal.
- The Tesla.
- There will always be a tiny amount of perturbation creating friction and therefore heat.
Links & Resources
Did you like this podcast? You can support my work by leaving a review on iTunes. Your kind words warm my heart and also help me be found by more passionate learners of French. Merci beaucoup!
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FV 037 : Best Jobs in the World Candidate and Crepe-Maker Aude Mayans
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04/01/16 • 32 min
Aude Mayans won her ticket to Australia after participating to the Best Jobs in the World competition, alongside hundreds of thousands of other candidates. But she never went back to France and instead, she settled in Tasmania where she is now running Miam French Crepes. She’ll share her story of making it through the competition in creative ways, making crepes and keeping being an adventurer and nature-lover at heart.
Episode Timeline
[05 min 07 sec] How Aude arrived in Australia
[06 min 17 sec] The Best Jobs in the World competition
[08 min 55 sec] The different stages of the selection of candidates
[11 min 43 sec] Being among the final six candidates
[13 min 06 sec] Arriving in Tasmania
[14 min 33 sec] Working different jobs
[17 min 13 sec] Aude’s crepes business in Tasmania
[19 min 06 sec] Miam French Crepes
[23 min 02 sec] Discover Tasmania
[28 min 10 sec] Raising awareness about Tasmanian devils
Links & Resources
- MIAM French Crepes :
http://www.miamfrenchcrepes.com
http://www.facebook.com/miamfrenchcrepes - Aude’s website for the Best Jobs in the world competition:
The outback adventurer: https://outbackadventurer.wordpress.com - One of Aude’s articles as a freelance journalist for Australia-Australie ::
My Aussie jobs : Vendeuse de macarons : http://www.australia-australie.com/articles/my-aussie-jobs-vendeuse-de-macarons - Australia-Australie : www.australia-australie.com
Did you like this podcast? You can support my work by leaving a review on iTunes. Your kind words warm my heart and also help me be found by more passionate learners of French. Merci beaucoup!
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FV 122 INTERVIEW: With planetary scientist François Forget (Part 1)
French Voices Podcast | Learn French | Interviews with Native French Speakers | French Culture
12/01/20 • 29 min
Meet François Forget, a planetary scientist at the Laboratoire de Météo Dynamique in Paris. François is an atmospheric dynamicist: he and his team model other planetary atmospheres including Mars, Titan and exoplanets.
In this first episode, François will explain in simple terms what he does. We’ll also talk about Mars and what makes it such an interesting planet to study. Are we alone in the universe? Does life necessarily need water to develop? How can we look for evidence of water / life under the surface of planets we can’t even reach? Listen in!
Watch lectures by François Forget online:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5YOhUiwedg (in French)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avByRwZzeuk (in French)
- https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v24dk (in French)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiVNOlo3xbQ (in English)
Vocab List
ADN (nm) = DNA
alizé (nm) = trade wind
chauvin,e (adj) = chauvinistic, partisan ; nationalistic
effarant,e (adj) = amazing, astounding ; alarming, frightening
étalon (nm) = benchmark, yardstick
faille (nf) = fault, rift (geology)
indice (nm) = clue
mener une enquête = to lead an investigation
milliard = billion
mousson (nf) = monsoon
nain,e (n, adj) = dwarf
pas grand-chose = not much
planétologue (n) = planetary scientist
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12/05/19 • 5 min
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FV 112 INTERVIEW: Copying master painters at the Louvre
French Voices Podcast | Learn French | Interviews with Native French Speakers | French Culture
06/15/20 • 30 min
Did you know you can get free access at the Louvre museum for a chance study and copy some of the masterpieces exhibited there? Gilles Malezieux is an artist who has copied many paintings in the largest and most famous museum of the world. As he will guide you through the application process and rules to get access to the Louvre, you’ll learn some interesting facts about how the museum operates. We’ll also discuss the differences between a copy and a fake, and the strict rules around the work of a copyist!
This is the first part of a two-episode conversation with Gilles.
Visit Gilles’s website
Vocab List
à la commande = upon order, to order
appréhender = to comprehend, grasp, understand
artisan = craftsperson
chevalet (nm) = easel
coefficient (nm) = coefficient, mulpiplying factor
déjanté,e (adj) = crazy, mad, nutty
faire ses armes = to earn your stripes
faussaire (nm) = forger, counterfeiter
format (nm) = size, format
justificatif de domicile (nm) = proof of address
lambda = average, ordinary, regular
maître (nm) = master
quadrillage (nm) = quartering, grid pattern
tabouret (nm) = stool
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FV 107 INTRO: Polyglot Steve Kaufmann about language learning (Part 1)
French Voices Podcast | Learn French | Interviews with Native French Speakers | French Culture
04/01/20 • 7 min
Interview with Steve Kaufmann, one of YouTube’s most famous polyglots and co-founder of LingQ, an online platform offering language-learning courses in 14 languages.
Steve has learnt around 20 (yes, 20!!!) languages in his life. Find out more about his background, how he came to learn French and, more importantly, about his method to learn a new language.
This interview is a must-listen for every language student. It was fascinating to discuss language learning with Steve and compare our approaches. I hope you’ll get great tips out of it as well as a motivation boost
Note: Get the transcript of the full interview (Parts 1 and 2) for the price of one!
Vocab List
apprentissage des langues (nm) = language learning
cerveau (nm) = brain
couramment (parler couramment) = fluently
défi (nm) = challenge
doué(e) pour... = gifted/talented for
feuilleton (nm) = serial, series (tv)
forcément = inevitably, sure to, bound to
polyglotte (n, adj) = polyglot (n, adj) ; multilingual (adj)
Sciences Po (Politiques) = (Paris Institute of Political Studies, a pretigious university in France)
Suède (nf) = Sweden
Links & Resources
- Find Steve on YouTube
- Watch the full interview on Youtube!
- Get an exclusive 35% discount off LingQ’s 1 Year Plan
- “What type of teacher do you have?” (killing teacher vs killer teacher)
- Introduction to the subjunctive (Part 1)
- Masculine or Feminine? Telling the Gender of French Nouns
Did you like this podcast? You can support my work by leaving a review on iTunes. Your kind words warm my heart and also help me be found by more passionate learners of French. Merci beaucoup!
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and never miss a new episode!
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FV 093 : (Part 1) – Mongolian Culture and Traditional Music with Steve Morel
French Voices Podcast | Learn French | Interviews with Native French Speakers | French Culture
08/01/18 • 41 min
Steve Morel is a young Frenchman who fell in love with Mongolian culture and traditional musical instrument, the Morin Khuur. He used to live a “normal” life, working for a job the meaning of which he was starting to question. And then there was the change, a calling, an irresistible passion for the music he discovered. Following his heart, he soon made the trip to Mongolia and never quite came back: Steve is now living in the country’s capital city, Ulaanbaatar (Oulan-Bator in French). Today, Steve’s purpose is to spread and share his knowledge of the Mongolian culture and the Morin Khuur. Both his personal story and insights are fascinating. I really wanted to invite Steve on the podcast to help spread his passion and knowledge for a people and traditions that are little known and also because I admire him for all the hard work and dedication he puts into his projects – I know too well how much time and effort he is investing to give a voice to Mongolia.
In this first part, Steve will share how his life changed and how he discovered the Morin Khuur. He’ll also discuss the French name for Morin Khuur and will reveal which translation he finds to be more accurate. Steve’s fascination for the instrument couldn’t be limited to trying to play it. Indeed, if you want the Morin Khuur to show its moving soul, you need to be able to make people who listen to it feel the wind of the steppe, imagine the smells, etc. In other words, if you want to do justice to the instrument you need to understand Mongolia.
Steve will tell you what the Morin Khuur looks like and what the two different trends/schools are. These differences are very interesting on the historical and cultural points of view. You’ll find out which side Steve took regarding these two ways of playing.
I mentioned the soul of the Morin Khuur: Steve will give you an incredible example of how the Morin Khuur is sometimes used to save a baby camel that is being rejected by their mother.
We recorded this episode in July, just before the Naadam, the traditional festival in Mongolia that is also the National Holiday – so we’ll talk about this just a little bit too.
I also asked Steve about his first impressions when he arrived in Mongolia and this part will end after we talk about the development of the country as I wanted to know whether Mongolian people were still predominantly nomadic or were settling in large cities.
Vocab List
à l’oreille = by ear
bosser (fam.) = to work,to slog
caisse (nf) = body (of instrument)
chambouler = to shake up, to turn upside down
chameau (nm) = camel
chamelet (nm) = calf (baby camel)
chamelle (nf) = she-camel
corde (nf) = string
crin (nm) = horsehair
en vouloir à mort (fam.) = to resent to death
fétiche (adj) = national animal; lucky, favourite
lutte (nf) = wrestling
manche (nm) = neck, shaft
mec (nm) (fam) = guy
mettre bas = to give birth
mongol,e (adj) = Mongolian
monter à cheval = to ride a horse
nomade (n, adj) = traveller, nomad (n); nomadic (adj)
partition (nf) = sheet music, score
puits (nm) = well (water)
se sédentariser = to settle down (in one place)
tir à l’arc (nm) = archery
trapèze (nm) = trapezium
vie antérieure (nf) = previous life, former life
vielle, vièle, viole (nf) = viol (old instrument)
yourte (nf) = yurt
Questions:
- What is the French name for the Morin Khuur? Which translation does Steve prefer to use instead?
- Describe the differences between the traditional Morin Khuur and the modern instrument.
- What picture of Mongolia did Steve first see from the plane?
Answers:
- The French name for the instrument is “vielle à tête de cheval” but Steve finds the name “instrument de cheval” more accurate.
- The traditional instrument has a body made of skin. The strings are made of horsehair. The tuning of the instrument is not as precise and you learn from oral tradition.
The modern instrument is made of wood and nylon strings. The tuning is precise and the learning is formal. The modern Morin Khuur can be used alongside other instruments in an orchestra. - He saw an ocean of mountains dotted with a few white yurts here and there.
Links & Resources
- Website: https://stevemorel.info/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ekion
- YouTube (Steve Morel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiaA4K958ZFqno_4_wK75Dg
- YouTube interview mentioned in the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRIXEorlANY
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