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Antonelli closes in on world title | Beginner French Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

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Today's story: Kimi Antonelli is almost world champion in Formula 1. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in French: Kimi Antonelli est presque champion du monde de Formule 1

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(00:31) More stories today

(01:34) Today's headline, slowly

(02:21) To win

(03:03) A lead in the championship

(04:03) First Italian champion

(04:33) Today's grammar point

(05:04) The story again

The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:

https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-10-26

TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT

Kimi Antonelli est presque champion du monde de Formule 1

Kimi Antonelli a gagné le Grand Prix des États-Unis à Austin.

Le pilote italien a vingt ans et roule pour Mercedes.

Cette victoire lui donne une grande avance au championnat.

Le week-end prochain, à Mexico, une neuvième place lui donne le titre si George Russell et Lewis Hamilton ne gagnent pas la course.

S'il gagne le championnat, il sera le premier Italien à le faire depuis Alberto Ascari, en 1953.

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Aux États-Unis, Wonder prépare une nouvelle expansion

WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- verb (gagner)

- vocabulary (ans)

- vocabulary (avance)

- vocabulary (neuvième place)

- vocabulary (premier)

New to French? Every class starts from the beginning, so today is a fine place to start.

Not sure this is your level? Our free French level check shows what level you are overall and across 8 sub-skills:

https://linguawire.com/assessment

Grammar explained in plain English:

https://linguawire.com/guide

If today's class helped, please follow the show. It is the single best thing that helps other French learners find us.

Note: LINGUAWIRE classes use AI support for translation and multi-language recording, with native-speaker scripting and supervision.

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