L'ETA et le Pays basque
French Listening Comprehension
Study Guide
Take a look at the following for help with any vocabulary that you might not
have understood in L'ETA et le Pays basque, then take
the test.
| Vocabulary | |
| à cheval | straddling |
| afficher | to announce |
| car | for, since, because |
| d'emblée | right away |
| une enquête | investigation |
| farouche | fierce |
| la lutte | fight, struggle |
| un magistrat | judge |
| réclamer | to call for, demand |
| reprocher à | to charge with, accuse of |
| une revendication | demand |
| se vouloir | to see oneself, claim/mean to be |
| Additional info | |
| ETA | Abbreviation of Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque country and freedom) |
| le Pays basque | Basque Country, the homeland of a Western European people whose origins are a mystery and whose language, probably the oldest in Europe, has no known ties to any other tongue. The Autonomous Community of the Basque Country in Spain comprises the herrialdes or provinces of Araba (in Spanish, Álava), Bizkaia (Vizcaya, whence the English name Biscay), and Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa); many Spanish Basques also live in neighboring Nafarroa (Navarre). The French herrialdes are Lapurdi (Labourd), Zuberoa (Soule), and Benafarroa (Basse-Navarre), which, along with the Bearn district, make up the department of Pyrénées-Atlantique in the Aquitaine region. Around 850,000 Basques live in Spain and 130,000 in France; the Basque diaspora numbers perhaps 170,000, mostly in the Americas. In Spain, the Basque government and the national government have recently been at loggerheads over a proposed referendum on increased Basque autonomy. |
| L'ETA et le Pays basque French Listening Comprehension Exercise |
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transcript, and "Additional info" notes were originally published in Champs-Élysées audiomagazine (read my review) and are used with the permission of Champs-Élysées, Inc. |
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