This exercise is both very interesting and very helpful. I listened to the video several times, both before and after reading the text and will return to it. I love the way the translation is hidden unless one clicks on a word or phrase. A great way to practice understanding rapidly spoken French.
""Le Radeau de la Méduse" de Géricault" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
On 2 July, 1816, the ship “La Méduse” wrecked on the shores of Mauritania, and inspired one of the most famous paintings in the world. After watching the video, scroll down for the transcript in our bilingual reader, where you can click any French phrase for the English translation and related grammar lessons.
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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!
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Merci beaucoup Catharine !
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