Indianapolis - La Ruda Salska

"Indianapolis - La Ruda Salska" has been shared to the blog from the French reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.


Since the mid-1990’s, the French rock band La Ruda Salska has been known for their energetic fusion of ska, punk, and rock influences. In the song “Indianapolis”, the band from Saumur immerses the listener in the excitement of high-speed car racing, and through its rhythmic verses and rich vocabulary, this song is not only a treasure chest of French racing vocabulary, but it’s also a real test of your listening skills. Are you up to this exhilarating challenge? So join the thrill of the race and sing along to “Indianapolis”!

After listening to the song, scroll down for the transcript in our bilingual reader, where you can click any French phrase for the English translation and related grammar lessons.

 

Click any word in the text to see its translation and related grammar lessons.

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Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!