Today's story: Matt Clifford leaves his chairmanship of Aria in the UK. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in French: Matt Clifford quitte la présidence d’Aria au Royaume-Uni

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(00:37) Three more stories today

(01:51) Today's headline, slowly

(02:41) The verb to leave

(03:19) Making things

(04:03) Staying in post

(04:57) The story again

The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:

https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-09-09

TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT

Matt Clifford quitte la présidence d’Aria au Royaume-Uni

Matt Clifford quitte son poste lundi.

Il a aussi pris un travail à plein temps chez Anthropic.

Anthropic fait le chatbot Claude.

Dans son nouveau rôle, il devait parler avec des gouvernements hors des États-Unis.

Il restera en place jusqu’au 6 novembre.

ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE

Frances Tiafoe, joueur de tennis, remonte et bat Alex Michelsen aux États-Unis

Andy Burnham annonce des sanctions contre Israël au Royaume-Uni

Le gouvernement du Royaume-Uni annonce des sanctions contre des colonies en Cisjordanie

WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- verb (quitter)

- vocabulary (à plein temps)

- vocabulary (fait)

- vocabulary (gouvernements)

- vocabulary (restera)

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