Today's story: Zheng Qinwen is through to the quarter-finals at the US Open. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in French: Zheng Qinwen va en quart à l’US Open

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(00:33) Three more stories today

(01:38) Today's headline, slowly

(02:22) Present tense forms

(03:07) One after another

(03:50) Winning and the result

(04:43) The story again

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

https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-09-08

TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT

Zheng Qinwen va en quart à l’US Open

Zheng Qinwen a battu Iga Swiatek en trois sets.

Dans le premier set, elle était menée 5-0.

Puis elle a gagné sept jeux de suite.

Elle a gagné le match 7-5, 6-3.

Avec cette victoire, elle est en quarts de finale à New York.

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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- verb (battre)

- vocabulary (menée)

- vocabulary (de suite)

- vocabulary (le match)

- vocabulary (victoire)

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