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136: "How did it come to happen that Haïti is 'the poorest country in the western hemisphere'?"

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Plus Publications

French, Language, Language Courses, Education

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🗓️ 5 February 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The subject of this lesson, lesson 136, is Haïti. Not, in fact, the dreadful tragedy which befell the country in the form of an earthquake, but the reasons why Haïti continues to be such an impoverished country. The dialogue is a rather long one this time, between Arnaud and Élodie. It is a lesson which makes extensive use of the passé simple. Let's get started.

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The subject of this lesson, lesson 136, is Haiti. Not in fact the dreadful tragedy which

0:20.4

befell the country in the form of an earthquake, but the reasons why Haiti continues

0:25.0

to be such an impoverished country.

0:27.7

The dialogue is a rather long one this time between Arno and Elodie.

0:31.9

Let's hear what they have to say.

0:33.0

E. O'D, you've seen a trumblement of the A. A Aiti

0:38.0

to grave the miser of these abitants.

0:40.0

But, well, a terrible tragedy, the A the area lived in a poverty object.

0:46.0

For what it was the new new

0:48.0

the country the more power of the Hemisphere West?

0:51.0

I'm not that that was the consequence of the colonization frances.

0:55.0

The France is here the party west of the line of the

0:59.0

di spaniela and there environ are environing.

1:01.0

The colonizer is a Sucre and the cafe,

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gras on Esclave African that were transported the bay.

1:08.0

Bien that was reprehensible,

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he's a genuine to gendry a success economic, that's conch.

1:15.0

The debut, yes, it was a success,

1:18.0

but it was a success, but it was a success.

1:21.0

Finally, he'd have a solution, and after a success. was entirely finally,

1:23.0

a settlement and after the year of Gere

1:26.0

the army of Napoleon to reverse

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