Today's story: Matt Clifford leaves his chairmanship of Aria in the UK. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in French: Matt Clifford quitte la présidence d’Aria au Royaume-Uni
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:37) Three more stories today
(01:51) Today's headline, slowly
(02:41) The verb to leave
(03:19) Making things
(04:03) Staying in post
(04:57) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-09-09
TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT
Matt Clifford quitte la présidence d’Aria au Royaume-Uni
Matt Clifford quitte son poste lundi.
Il a aussi pris un travail à plein temps chez Anthropic.
Anthropic fait le chatbot Claude.
Dans son nouveau rôle, il devait parler avec des gouvernements hors des États-Unis.
Il restera en place jusqu’au 6 novembre.
ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
Frances Tiafoe, joueur de tennis, remonte et bat Alex Michelsen aux États-Unis
Andy Burnham annonce des sanctions contre Israël au Royaume-Uni
Le gouvernement du Royaume-Uni annonce des sanctions contre des colonies en Cisjordanie
WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (quitter)
- vocabulary (à plein temps)
- vocabulary (fait)
- vocabulary (gouvernements)
- vocabulary (restera)
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