Today's story: Arab parties could win 18 seats in Israel. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in French: Les partis arabes pourraient gagner 18 sièges en Israël
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:30) More stories today
(01:32) Today's headline, slowly
(02:20) Voting
(03:00) Possible results
(03:54) Turnout over time
(04:26) Today's grammar point
(04:59) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-10-28
TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT
Les partis arabes pourraient gagner 18 sièges en Israël
Mardi, les électeurs ont voté en Israël.
Les sondages après le vote donnent 18 sièges aux partis arabes.
La Liste unie et Ra’am peuvent avoir un nombre record de sièges.
Selon les sondages, les deux grands blocs ont 51 sièges chacun.
La participation totale est de 77,7 %, la plus haute depuis 1999.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (voter)
- vocabulary (sièges)
- vocabulary (peuvent)
- vocabulary (chacun)
- connector words (depuis)
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