Today's story: The Nobel Prize in Economics explained with an ice-cream menu. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in French: Le prix Nobel d’économie expliqué par un menu de glaces
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:36) More stories today
(01:34) Today's headline, slowly
(02:18) The prize announcement
(03:10) Work on prices
(03:58) Keeping the same price
(04:28) Today's grammar point
(05:01) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-10-14
TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT
Le prix Nobel d’économie expliqué par un menu de glaces
Lundi, Robert Hall et Michael Woodford ont reçu le prix Nobel d’économie lors d’une annonce en Suède.
Robert Hall travaille à Stanford et Michael Woodford travaille à Columbia.
Le prix récompense leurs travaux sur les prix et les décisions dans l’économie.
Timo Boppart a montré un menu de glaces pour expliquer les prix qui ne changent pas vite.
Une entreprise de glaces peut garder le même prix pendant toute une saison.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (ont reçu)
- vocabulary (travaille)
- vocabulary (leurs)
- vocabulary (montré)
- verb (garder)
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