Today's story: Fossil says its recovery is progressing faster than expected. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in French: Fossil dit que son redressement avance plus vite que prévu

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(01:31) Today's headline, slowly

(02:16) Profit and loss

(03:02) Sales figures

(04:00) Traditional watches

(04:56) The story again

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

https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-11-11

TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT

Fossil dit que son redressement avance plus vite que prévu

Fossil a retrouvé des bénéfices au troisième trimestre, après une perte l’année dernière.

Son résultat d’exploitation a atteint 25,3 millions de dollars.

Les ventes nettes ont augmenté de 0,4 %, à 271,2 millions de dollars.

Fossil a réduit ses dépenses de fonctionnement de 11,1 %.

Les ventes de montres traditionnelles ont augmenté de 6,4 %.

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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- vocabulary (bénéfices)

- vocabulary (a atteint)

- vocabulary (ventes nettes)

- verb (réduire)

- vocabulary (traditionnelles)

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