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Tap individual words for vocabulary, and use the support section to check the exact sentence-level meaning.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"core-vocabulary","Core vocabulary",[19,20,24,34,40,47,53,59,65,71,77,83],"lesson-vocabulary-table",{"left":21,"middle":22,"right":23},"Target word","Translation","Type",[25,26,29],"lesson-vocabulary-item",{"note":27,"translation":28},"noun","exhibition",[30,31,32],"glossary-word",{"term":32,"translation":28,"interactive":33},"exposition","false",[25,35,37],{"note":27,"translation":36},"caption \u002F display note",[30,38,39],{"term":39,"translation":36,"interactive":33},"cartel",[25,41,44],{"note":42,"translation":43},"verb","to suggest \u002F imply",[30,45,46],{"term":46,"translation":43,"interactive":33},"suggérer",[25,48,50],{"note":27,"translation":49},"perspective \u002F 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Use this section to slow down and confirm exactly what the story is doing sentence by sentence.",[146,147,148,155,161,167,173,179,185,191],"lesson-support-table",{},[149,150,152],"lesson-support-row",{"translation":151},"Claire had entered the museum thinking she was going to write a fairly conventional cultural article centered on the new exhibition devoted to twentieth-century urban photography.",[30,153,154],{"term":154,"translation":151,"interactive":33},"Claire était entrée au musée en pensant rédiger un article culturel assez classique, centré sur la nouvelle exposition consacrée aux photographies urbaines du vingtième siècle.",[149,156,158],{"translation":157},"Yet, from the first room onward, she understood that the images were not merely trying to show a city, but to question the way that city had been viewed, classified, and narrated.",[30,159,160],{"term":160,"translation":157,"interactive":33},"Or, dès la première salle, elle a compris que les images ne cherchaient pas seulement à montrer une ville, mais à discuter la manière dont cette ville avait été regardée, classée et racontée.",[149,162,164],{"translation":163},"The display notes remained deliberately restrained, as if they refused to impose a definitive reading on scenes whose meaning depended precisely on their ambiguity.",[30,165,166],{"term":166,"translation":163,"interactive":33},"Les cartels restaient volontairement sobres, comme s’ils refusaient d’imposer une lecture définitive à des scènes dont le sens dépendait justement de leur ambiguïté.",[149,168,170],{"translation":169},"The further Claire moved through the exhibition, the more she noticed that visitors spoke quietly, not out of automatic respect, but because the images seemed to demand an interpretive effort that could not be reduced to an immediate reaction.",[30,171,172],{"term":172,"translation":169,"interactive":33},"Plus Claire avançait, plus elle remarquait que les visiteurs parlaient à voix basse, non par respect automatique, mais parce que les images semblaient exiger un effort d’interprétation qu’on ne pouvait pas réduire à une réaction immédiate.",[149,174,176],{"translation":175},"In front of a photograph of an almost empty facade, one student murmured that it reminded him of the place where he had grown up, whereas someone else saw in it above all the brutal absence of any shared life.",[30,177,178],{"term":178,"translation":175,"interactive":33},"Devant une photographie de façade presque vide, un étudiant a murmuré qu’elle lui rappelait l’endroit où il avait grandi, alors qu’une autre personne y voyait surtout l’absence brutale de toute vie commune.",[149,180,182],{"translation":181},"Claire then stopped looking for the brilliant phrase that would summarize the exhibition in one line, since such a phrase would have betrayed precisely what the whole display was trying to preserve.",[30,183,184],{"term":184,"translation":181,"interactive":33},"Claire a alors cessé de chercher la formule brillante qui résumerait l’exposition en une ligne, puisqu’une telle formule aurait trahi précisément ce que l’ensemble essayait de préserver.",[149,186,188],{"translation":187},"She preferred to note the shifts in perspective, the modest disagreements, and the interpretations that corrected one another without ever fully closing themselves off.",[30,189,190],{"term":190,"translation":187,"interactive":33},"Elle a préféré noter les glissements de regard, les désaccords modestes, les interprétations qui se corrigeaient les unes les autres sans jamais se fermer complètement.",[149,192,194],{"translation":193},"That same evening, while rereading her notes, she understood that her article should not defend a simple thesis, but make readable the very fragility of what she had observed.",[30,195,196],{"term":196,"translation":193,"interactive":33},"Le soir même, en relisant ses notes, elle a compris que son article ne devait pas défendre une thèse simple, mais rendre lisible la fragilité même de ce qu’elle avait observé.",[14,198,200],{"id":199},"grammar-in-context","Grammar in context",[10,202,203],{},"These are the two patterns doing the most work in this lesson. Learn them as reusable sentence frames, not as isolated rules.",[205,206,207,217],"lesson-grammar-grid",{},[208,209,213],"lesson-grammar-card",{"summary":210,"title":211,"translation":212},"This structure lets French show a gradual intensification between two linked ideas or perceptions.","plus ... plus ...","A strong progression connector.",[30,214,215],{"term":215,"translation":216,"interactive":33},"Plus elle avançait, plus elle remarquait les nuances.","The further she went, the more she noticed the nuances.",[208,218,222],{"summary":219,"title":220,"translation":221},"Puisque introduces a reason that the speaker treats as already evident or unavoidable.","puisque","A high-level justification structure.",[30,223,224],{"term":224,"translation":225,"interactive":33},"Elle a changé d’approche puisqu’une formule simple aurait trahi le sujet.","She changed approach since a simple formula would have betrayed the subject.",[14,227,229],{"id":228},"extension-reading","Extension reading",[231,232,233],"lesson-reading-block",{},[100,234,236],{"tokens":235},"Certaines=some|expositions=exhibitions|demandent=mainly|surtout=ask|qu’on=we|apprenne=we|quelque=learn|chose=something|;|d’autres=others|obligent=force|le=the|visiteur=ask|à=to \u002F at|se=himself \u002F herself|demander=are|comment=are|il=he \u002F it|regarde=mental|,|et=and|avec=with|quelles=mental|habitudes=habits|mentales=organize|il=he \u002F it|organise=see|ce=this \u002F that|qu’il=see|voit=gap|.|C’est=gap|dans=in|cet=gap|écart=most|que=that \u002F which|naît=most|souvent=difficult|l’écriture=writing|la=the|plus=often|difficile=born|.",[237,238],"lessonglosstext",{"tokens":239},"Écrire=writing|fidèlement=faithfully|ne=not|consiste=does|donc=consist|pas=not|à=to \u002F at|simplifier=things|jusqu’à=until|l’évidence=seem|,|mais=but|à=to \u002F at|trouver=finding|une=a \u002F one|forme=finding|assez=form|claire=form|pour=for \u002F to|accueillir=enough|la=the|complexité=complexity|sans=without|l’écraser=crushing|.|À=to \u002F at|ce=this \u002F that|niveau=level|,|le=the|français=french|sert=serves|moins=less|à=to \u002F at|nommer=than|qu’à=hold|tenir=hold|ensemble=several|plusieurs=possible|lectures=readings|possibles=together|.",[14,241,243],{"id":242},"review","Review",[10,245,246,250],{},[247,248,249],"strong",{},"Story check:"," What is Claire trying to do in this lesson, and what detail changes the situation?",[10,252,253,256],{},[247,254,255],{},"Vocabulary check:"," Find exposition, cartel, suggérer, and regard in the story text again. Explain what each word is doing in its sentence.",[10,258,259,262],{},[247,260,261],{},"Retell:"," Retell the scene in two or three sentences using exposition and cartel. Then add one sentence about why the ending matters for Claire.",{"title":264,"searchDepth":265,"depth":265,"links":266},"",2,[267,268,269,270,271,272],{"id":16,"depth":265,"text":17},{"id":91,"depth":265,"text":92},{"id":140,"depth":265,"text":141},{"id":199,"depth":265,"text":200},{"id":228,"depth":265,"text":229},{"id":242,"depth":265,"text":243},"Practice B2 French in a short story where Claire gathers notes at the museum before writing a difficult article. Tap individual words, follow line-by-line meaning, and review vocabulary from the scene.","29 min","md","french","B2","en",{},true,"\u002Flessons\u002Fen\u002Ffrench-b2-museum-article-notes","2025-09-30",{"title":5,"description":273},"Read B2 French through a story where Claire gathers notes at the museum before writing a difficult article, with word-level translations, synced audio highlighting, sentence support, and focused review.","B2 French Story Lesson Set in a Museum","french-b2-museum-article-notes","lessons\u002Fen\u002Ffrench-b2-museum-article-notes",[289,290,291,292],"French lesson","B2 French","French reading lesson","museum French",[294,295,296],"Track the scene: Claire gathers notes at the museum before writing a difficult article. Notice the goal, the problem, and the resolution.","Tap words like exposition, cartel, and suggérer while you read so the vocabulary stays tied to the sentence.","Use the support section to check meaning, then retell the scene with two details from the text.","zJPwDRxa0hNxl68Z5k2jz4NBEL6AhYgAWX6EFg9agao",[299,526,751],{"id":300,"title":301,"body":302,"description":507,"duration":508,"extension":275,"language":276,"level":509,"locale":278,"meta":510,"navigation":280,"path":511,"publishedAt":512,"seo":513,"seoDescription":514,"seoTitle":515,"slug":516,"stem":517,"tags":518,"takeaway":522,"__hash__":525},"lessons\u002Flessons\u002Fen\u002Ffrench-b1-neighborhood-meal-prep.md","Malik helps organize the neighborhood meal before the guests arrive",{"type":7,"value":303,"toc":499},[304,307,309,372,374,406,408,410,448,450,452,472,474,482,484,489,494],[10,305,306],{},"Read the story for what each person is trying to do, then reread it for the language that connects the actions. Tap words for vocabulary, and use the support section to check the parts that carry the plot.",[14,308,17],{"id":16},[19,310,311,317,323,329,335,342,348,354,360,366],{"left":21,"middle":22,"right":23},[25,312,314],{"note":27,"translation":313},"dish \u002F meal",[30,315,316],{"term":316,"translation":313,"interactive":33},"plat",[25,318,320],{"note":27,"translation":319},"apron",[30,321,322],{"term":322,"translation":319,"interactive":33},"tablier",[25,324,326],{"note":42,"translation":325},"to chop \u002F cut up",[30,327,328],{"term":328,"translation":325,"interactive":33},"découper",[25,330,332],{"note":42,"translation":331},"to manage \u002F cope",[30,333,334],{"term":334,"translation":331,"interactive":33},"se débrouiller",[25,336,339],{"note":337,"translation":338},"adverb","meanwhile",[30,340,341],{"term":341,"translation":338,"interactive":33},"pendant ce 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d’habitude, parce qu’il manquait deux bénévoles et que les invités devaient arriver avant vingt heures.",[149,425,427],{"translation":426},"Malik put on his apron, began chopping the vegetables, and then noticed that nobody had yet taken care of the plates or the glasses.",[30,428,429],{"term":429,"translation":426,"interactive":33},"Malik a mis son tablier, a commencé à découper les légumes, puis il a remarqué que personne ne s’était encore occupé des assiettes ni des verres.",[149,431,433],{"translation":432},"At first he thought he would have to do everything himself, but a neighbor he barely knew came over to offer her help without the slightest hesitation.",[30,434,435],{"term":435,"translation":432,"interactive":33},"Au début, il a pensé qu’il faudrait tout faire lui-même, mais une voisine qu’il connaissait à peine s’est approchée pour lui proposer son aide sans la moindre hésitation.",[149,437,439],{"translation":438},"Meanwhile, in the next room, people could already be heard 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Notice the goal, the problem, and the resolution.","Tap words like averse, librairie, and attendre while you read so the vocabulary stays tied to the sentence.","4WsGFEjGghsLq_Zlf5I7jZ9SsE81KNThP1P_jpqTuR0",{"id":752,"title":753,"body":754,"description":949,"duration":950,"extension":275,"language":276,"level":951,"locale":278,"meta":952,"navigation":280,"path":953,"publishedAt":954,"seo":955,"seoDescription":956,"seoTitle":957,"slug":958,"stem":959,"tags":960,"takeaway":964,"__hash__":967},"lessons\u002Flessons\u002Fen\u002Ffrench-a1-morning-market.md","Camille buys fruit and cheese at the morning market",{"type":7,"value":755,"toc":941},[756,759,761,825,827,856,858,861,893,895,897,917,919,924,926,931,936],[10,757,758],{},"Start with the short scene first. 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That comes to six euros.",[30,891,892],{"term":892,"translation":889,"interactive":33},"Très bien. 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Tap individual words, follow line-by-line meaning, and review vocabulary from the scene.","16 min","A1",{},"\u002Flessons\u002Fen\u002Ffrench-a1-morning-market","2025-04-18",{"title":753,"description":949},"Read A1 French through a story where Camille buys fruit and cheese at the morning market, with word-level translations, synced audio highlighting, sentence support, and focused review.","French Market Lesson for Beginners","french-a1-morning-market","lessons\u002Fen\u002Ffrench-a1-morning-market",[289,961,962,963],"beginner French","market French","food vocabulary",[965,966,296],"Track the scene: Camille buys fruit and cheese at the morning market. Notice the goal, the problem, and the resolution.","Tap words like fromage, pommes, and marché while you read so the vocabulary stays tied to the sentence.","9LVuswVDbLl7Tmwd7DO6KCrBpv7WjHDHfDr3EhjIYXo",1778598022931]