GM and Ford are targeting defence and energy storage | Beginner French class Nº054
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Today's story: GM and Ford are targeting defence and energy storage. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it. Today's headline in French: GM et Ford visent la défense et le stockage d’énergie (00:00) Welcome and today's headline (00:36) Three more stories today (01:44) Today's headline, slowly (02:36) Present tense of chercher (03:17) Having a contract (03:58) Storing electricity (04:34) Today's grammar point (05:08) The story again The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode: https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-09-06 TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT GM et Ford visent la défense et le stockage d’énergie GM et Ford cherchent de nouveaux marchés. Ils veulent aussi gagner de l’argent avec l’énergie. GM a déjà un contrat avec l’armée américaine. Ford veut investir deux milliards de dollars dans son activité d’énergie. Ce type de système garde de l’électricité pour des maisons et des entreprises. ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE Des agents OpenAI publient des messages sur un wiki public en Allemagne Nigel Farage, chef de Reform UK, fait l’objet d’une enquête sur un don étranger Les négociateurs américains parlent de l’Ukraine en Russie WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES - verb (chercher) - vocabulary (veulent) - vocabulary (a) - vocabulary (investir) - vocabulary (garde) 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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