Today's story: A Russian drone hits a train in Ukraine. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in French: Un drone russe frappe un train en Ukraine
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:32) Three more stories today
(01:35) Today's headline, slowly
(02:21) Present tense forms
(03:00) Parts of a train
(03:40) Passengers and evacuation
(04:27) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-09-14
TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT
Un drone russe frappe un train en Ukraine
Le drone touche le train près de la frontière polonaise.
Le train va de l’Ukraine vers la Pologne.
Le moteur du train est touché.
Les autorités disent qu’il n’y a pas de blessés.
Tous les passagers sont évacués.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (toucher)
- vocabulary (vers)
- vocabulary (moteur)
- vocabulary (blessés)
- vocabulary (passagers)
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