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EPISODE · Oct 11, 2025 · 2 MIN

Listening Practice - Nouvelle vie en France

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Alors, un petit point sur George Clooney et sa nouvelle vie en France.So, a little update on George Clooney and his new life in France.Dans une interview récente pour Esquire, l'acteur, hein, 64 ans maintenant, eh bien il explique pourquoi avec sa femme Amal et leurs jumeaux, ils ont quitté LA pour une ferme en France.In a recent interview for Esquire, the actor, who's 64 now, well, he explains why he, his wife Amal, and their twins left LA for a farm in France.Alors pourquoi ce choix ?So why this choice?Premièrement, c'est vraiment un rejet de la culture hollywoodienne.Firstly, it's really a rejection of Hollywood culture.Clooney, il avait peur, vous savez, de l'impact de toute cette pression médiatique sur ses enfants à Los Angeles.Clooney was afraid, you know, of the impact of all that media pressure on his children in Los Angeles.Les comparaisons constantes, tout ça.The constant comparisons, all that.Et il trouve qu'en France, bah, les gens s'intéressent moins à la célébrité, c'est moins pesant.And he finds that in France, well, people are less interested in celebrity, it's less burdensome.Deuxièmement, l'idée c'est d'adopter une vie plus simple, plus terre-à-terre.Secondly, the idea is to adopt a simpler, more down-to-earth life.Alors on l'imagine là, conduire son tracteur, bricoler des trucs, repeindre les clôtures avec les petits.So we can imagine him there, driving his tractor, tinkering with things, repainting the fences with the little ones.Et il insiste sur les routines, genre dîner ensemble tous les soirs.And he insists on routines, like having dinner together every night.Et puis troisièmement, il y a tout l'aspect valeur et transmission.And then thirdly, there's the whole aspect of values and transmission.Vous voyez, il veut leur apprendre des choses concrètes, le sens des réalités.You see, he wants to teach them concrete things, the sense of reality.Son but, c'est qu'ils se souviennent de lui comme ça, à travers ses gestes simples, et qu'ils se disent : « Tiens, ça, ça aurait rendu papa fier ».His goal is for them to remember him this way, through his simple actions, and for them to say, "Hey, that, that would have made Dad proud."Donc voilà, en gros, George Clooney a choisi le calme de la France pour offrir à sa famille une vie plus simple, plus normale, centrée sur des valeurs, loin de la folie médiatique d'Hollywood.So there you have it, basically, George Clooney chose the calm of France to offer his family a simpler, more normal life, focused on values, far from the media frenzy of Hollywood. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Alors, un petit point sur George Clooney et sa nouvelle vie en France.So, a little update on George Clooney and his new life in France.Dans une interview récente pour Esquire, l'acteur, hein, 64 ans maintenant, eh bien il explique pourquoi avec sa femme Amal et leurs jumeaux, ils ont quitté LA pour une ferme en France.In a recent interview for Esquire, the actor, who's 64 now, well, he explains why he, his wife Amal, and their twins left LA for a farm in France.Alors pourquoi ce choix ?So why this choice?Premièrement, c'est vraiment un rejet de la culture hollywoodienne.Firstly, it's really a rejection of Hollywood culture.Clooney, il avait peur, vous savez, de l'impact de toute cette pression médiatique sur ses enfants à Los Angeles.Clooney was afraid, you know, of the impact of all that media pressure on his children in Los Angeles.Les comparaisons constantes, tout ça.The constant comparisons, all that.Et il trouve qu'en France, bah, les gens s'intéressent moins à la célébrité, c'est moins pesant.And he finds that in France, well, people are less interested in celebrity, it's less burdensome.Deuxièmement, l'idée c'est d'adopter une vie plus simple, plus terre-à-terre.Secondly, the idea is to adopt a simpler, more down-to-earth life.Alors on l'imagine là, conduire son tracteur, bricoler des trucs, repeindre les clôtures avec les petits.So we can imagine him there, driving his tractor, tinkering with things, repainting the fences with the little ones.Et il insiste sur les routines, genre dîner ensemble tous les soirs.And he insists on routines, like having dinner together every night.Et puis troisièmement, il y a tout l'aspect valeur et transmission.And then thirdly, there's the whole aspect of values and transmission.Vous voyez, il veut leur apprendre des choses concrètes, le sens des réalités.You see, he wants to teach them concrete things, the sense of reality.Son but, c'est qu'ils se souviennent de lui comme ça, à travers ses gestes simples, et qu'ils se disent : « Tiens, ça, ça aurait rendu papa fier ».His goal is for them to remember him this way, through his simple actions, and for them to say, "Hey, that, that would have made Dad proud."Donc voilà, en gros, George Clooney a choisi le calme de la France pour offrir à sa famille une vie plus simple, plus normale, centrée sur des valeurs, loin de la folie médiatique d'Hollywood.So there you have it, basically, George Clooney chose the calm of France to offer his family a simpler, more normal life, focused on values, far from the media frenzy of Hollywood. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

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