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Duolingo French Podcast

Traditions iconiques - The Tour de France

Duolingo French Podcast

Duolingo

Society & Culture, Education

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Le Tour de France is a legendary bicycle race in France. But to cycling enthusiast Claire Floret, there’s something terribly wrong with it: women aren’t allowed to compete. So in order to make things right, she created a brand new cycling challenge.

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0:00.0

Language supposedly has all these rules.

0:04.8

Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides

0:08.6

nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,

0:14.2

confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.

0:18.1

In Radio Lingo, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and Crooked Media, we explore how language

0:23.6

shapes our world and how our world shapes language.

0:27.2

I'm Amadella Yuckbure.

0:28.4

I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award winning writer.

0:32.0

I am an awe-void language.

0:33.9

It's complexity and it's simplicity.

0:36.1

The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.

0:39.6

I'm going to be your guide.

0:41.4

Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.

0:44.7

From Crooked Media and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.

0:48.9

New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.

0:55.2

It's 2014 and Claire Florey, a 29 year old sports teacher and an avid cyclist, is at home

1:03.4

with her boyfriend.

1:05.6

It's early evening and they're watching a documentary about the Tour de France, the legendary

1:12.5

bicycle race that takes place in France every July.

1:16.5

The Tour de France is an event-sportive, French-speaking, the most famous in the world.

1:21.6

My friend and I are all passionate about bikes.

1:25.8

This evening, we watched a documentary about the Tour de France and it really interested me.

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