"Strasbourg, le plus grand marché de Noël d'Europe !" 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.
It’s that magical time of the year again, and nothing is more enchanting than wandering through the bright and merry alleys of a Christmas market. Join the festivities while discovering one of Europe’s oldest and biggest Christmas markets, in the French city of Strasbourg, with this joyful video and its bilingual transcript.
Note: The tenses in this French article and its English translation don’t match! In French, we use the present tense to describe historical stories like this to evoke a sense of immediacy, whereas in English, we commonly use the past tense – learn more about historical French tenses .
Click on the image below to watch the video, then 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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