Les aventures de Tintin | Podcast en français COURANT avec sous-titres.

Welcome to the Fluidité podcast, episode 115. In this episode, I would like to talk to you about the world-famous comic strip Tintin. So stay tuned! Do you learn French? Fabien offers you content in common French which talks about culture, history, French geography, but also biographies, dialogues or learning tips. Welcome to the Fluidité podcast! Before starting, I invite you to join our VIP club. It's my Patreon page where you have the material to deepen my content and become better in French. For example, for each content I make, you have bonuses such as the vocabulary list, bilingual transcriptions, the audio version, and a private group course where I explain the grammar of the contents. The VIP club is also a large community with more than 300 members, 300 learners, and we talk together every day on the Telegram group and on the Discord server. We do different activities to practice French, so you can also practice your French, find or share resources with other students, other learners, and it's very important for you to not feel alone in your learning and to always be motivated. So you have the link on the podcast platforms and on YouTube to sign up for the VIP club and you can stay as long as you want. Come with pleasure! In the description of the episode, you also have the YouTube video version if you listen to me in audio or in French or in other languages to improve your oral comprehension and you also have the free French transcription in the description. So thank you for voting for this topic on my Telegram channel. Tintin's Adventures is one of the most famous comic books in Europe, but also in the world. That's why I'd like to talk about it today. We'll see how and by whom it was created and the main characters. It will be a fairly short episode for beginners. Tintin's Adventures is the exact title of this famous comic book series, but it's not French. It's Belgian. And indeed, in Belgium, comic books are an art in its own right and the country produces a lot of them. But since Belgium is partly French and Tintin's Adventures are in French, I absolutely had to tell you about it. When I was a kid, I didn't know she was Belgian and I thought she was French. The creator of Tintin was called Georges Remy, a Belgian cartoonist born in 1907, so at the beginning of the 20th century. But everyone knew him under the name of RG. RG was his artist's name. His name was Georges Remy, so his initials were GR or RG in the other direction. When he created Tintin, RG was working for Le Petit Vingtième, a Belgian newspaper about youth. In this newspaper, he publishes a comic that doesn't work very well. In another newspaper, for which RG works, he creates another comic about the life of a young boy and his white dog. Le Petit Vingtième decides to integrate the adventures of this young man into their newspaper and it's the creation of Tintin et Milou on January 10, 1929. The first episode, the first album, was called Tintin in the Soviet countries and in this first part, RG tells the story of Tintin, a young reporter, a journalist who is sent to Moscow at the time of the USSR led by Stalin. So who is Tintin? He is a reporter who goes on missions all over the world and makes us discover many countries. RG never gave the age of Tintin but he says he is young. Tintin fights against evil. He crosses on his road drug dealers, slave dealers, etc. who want to prevent him from revealing the truth. To face all these bad guys, Tintin is very brave, he defends the poorest and always takes the defense of children. The young boy does not hesitate to put his life at risk to save those of others. He is very curious by nature but remains calm and composed and takes the time to find the best solution to all the misadventures he encounters. Tintin is a blond hero with a hat on his head. A hat is a small piece of hair at the front of the head that holds straight. In general, he is always dressed the same way. Brown pants, a blue sweater with a white shirt underneath whose collar exceeds the sweater. In all Tintin's adventures, there is a friend who follows him everywhere. It's Milou, his dog. This is the first character that I would like to introduce to you. Milou is a very small white dog. He is very lively and very awake. Contrary to Tintin, he often succumbs to temptation which is worth a few adventures. But he comes back very quickly in the right way to help his master Tintin. Milou is also grumpy, grumpy and very talkative. But despite everything, he is a very cute character and a little dog that we would all like to have. Another main character of the comic is Captain Haddock. Another very good friend of Tintin. As his name suggests, he is a captain of a ship, a sailor, of which he represents the perfect stereotype. He drinks a little too much whiskey, so he has some alcoholism problems. Haddock has a lot of character, gets angry easily and often pouts. Pouting means expressing his great discontent by speaking loudly or without restraint. That's why the captain is also famous for his swearing. Well, since it's a comic for children, he doesn't say big words like but expressions like for example Mil Sabor or Tonnerre de Brest. But he says it all the time. Despite this, he is a hero with a big heart, ready to sacrifice himself and who will also help Tintin in all his adventures. Another important character of the comic, there are two people, but who form almost one, Dupont and Dupont. As you know, the consonants at the end of words in French are silent and the family name Dupont can be written with a D or a T at the end. It's the same pronunciation. In Tintin's adventures, there are two policemen whose family name is Dupont, but one writes Dupont with a D at the end and the other with a T at the end. They are sows, that means they look alike perfectly. As the expression says, but without being twins or brothers. They are dressed in the same way, all in black with a melon hat. They wear a mustache and it is the only trait that differentiates them. Because Dupont's mustache with a D is all straight and that of Dupont with a T is curved outward. The characteristics of the Duponts, they are above all gaffers, they make gaffes. A gaffe is a clumsiness, it is an action or a clumsy word without doing it on purpose. So if we make a gaffe, we can say Sorry, I made a gaffe. Or I gaffed. But to warn someone of a danger, to say be careful, in slang we say be careful. So it's not to be confused. For example, be careful, the plate is hot. Or be careful, the plate is hot. So the two policemen are very clumsy and that's what makes them charming. That's why we love them. And they try to help Tintin with riddles or police investigations. And I present to you a last important character, Professor Tournesol. In French, a tournesol is a flower that turns to the sun, hence its name and you certainly know it in your mother tongue. Tournesol is an engineer and inventor. So he helps Tintin to achieve his goals by creating unusual and unusual objects. The big problem is that he is almost deaf. So either people have to scream for them to understand, or they don't understand and it leads to quite funny quiproquos. A quiproquo is a word that comes from Latin and means a misunderstanding, a confusion. The professor is also very stunned, very distracted, so all this causes a lot of funny and funny situations. So surrounded by all his friends, Tintin and Milou live many adventures traveling the world during 24 albums of the series. We find them on all continents, in Asia, in America, in Africa, in Oceania, in Europe and in many countries. And they even went beyond the terrestrial continents since in the album Objective Moon released in 1953, they went to the moon, so 16 years before Neil Armstrong. We love Tintin because the comic takes us on a trip and at the time it came out, international tourism was not as popular as it is now, so the comic makes us meet other cultures very easily. In addition, we identify with these different characters, very endearing for their character. They mix suspense, thrill, science fiction, humor, so a perfect cocktail to have a good time. RG died in 1983 at the age of 75 and he didn't have time to finish the last album of Tintin's adventures, even if it came out posthumously. The series was not resumed by another cartoonist, but Tintin was adapted in a TV series I watched when I was little, but also many times in the cinema, including a film directed by Steven Spielberg. By the way, RG would have been very happy if a great director paid homage to him in this way. The comic was also adapted in theater or video games and the albums sold more than 250 million copies all over the world. They have been translated in more than 90 languages. In short, a crazy success for this Belgian hero who has become an international star. Tell me in the comments if you knew Tintin and if you like him. What is your favorite character and what is his name in your language? I would be curious to know. That's all you need to know about Tintin. I put the link of the video on Asterix in the cards and in the description if you want to know everything about it. Thank you all for watching or listening to this episode. I hope you have learned a lot of French, vocabulary and grammar. 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