CBF ER 1.06 | Les Villes Frontalières (Updated version)
Coffee Break French
Radio Lingua Network
4.6 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we're investigating an interesting aspect of life in this part of France: what it's like to live and work in a border town. Mark travels north to the town of Breil-sur-Roya, and to do so he has to cross the border between France and Italy a number of times. Through the conversations featured in this extended audio episode you'll learn about life in les villes frontalières.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to |
| 0:10.8 | Ruth with Coffee Break French. |
| 0:13.3 | Today we're talking about borders. |
| 0:16.7 | We're talking about borders today. |
| 0:19.6 | Because in this episode we are crossing the border, |
| 0:22.9 | back and forward, into Italy and in backhead. |
| 0:25.5 | We're heading to the town of Suspel from Monten. |
| 0:28.1 | In order to get there we're going up the valley |
| 0:30.7 | from Ventemilia in Italy. |
| 0:32.9 | One of the things I find absolutely fascinating |
| 0:35.7 | about border towns, especially in many parts of Europe, |
| 0:39.5 | is the fact that you literally go from one language |
| 0:43.2 | to another when you're moving from one country to another. |
| 0:47.7 | In this case we're moving from France into Italy |
| 0:50.2 | and we're driving along out of Monten. |
| 0:52.8 | And we're heading into Italy. |
| 0:54.6 | So I'm seeing Barcafe and immediately in this new country |
| 1:01.5 | everything is in Italian. |
| 1:03.3 | And the first thing I see is Polizia, Certo, |
| 1:06.3 | the police controlling the border. |
| 1:09.0 | And then we've gone literally no more than maybe even 100 meters |
| 1:13.0 | and now we're entirely changed language. |
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