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Hello everyone, welcome to this new French video.

As you probably know, new words are added to the French dictionary every year. In general, these words are added to the dictionary because they have been used a lot in the news, or because they are used more and more frequently by French speakers.

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This was the case, for example, with the word "Covid", which has been heard a lot in recent years and has now entered the dictionary.

This year, over 150 new words have been added to the Larousse dictionary. The Larousse is a type of dictionary that published its latest edition in mid-June 2022.

Today, we're going to see ten of them together. Of course, we couldn't see all 150. The ten we're going to see are, in my opinion, the most interesting ones for you, and especially the ones you hear most in the media or in recent series or films. So they'll certainly be of interest to you.

I know you're always happy to learn new vocabulary, to expand your French vocabulary.

That's why I'm delighted that this video is sponsored by the DuoCards application. DuoCards is a free application that lets you learn and revise vocabulary in French or in the language you're learning, thanks to flashcards and vocabulary cards.

In this application, you will be able to learn new vocabulary through lists with themes, for example food, or parts of the body for example. But you can also learn new vocabulary through articles, videos or movies.

Whenever you don't know a word, you can click on it and save it. It will then be added to the list of vocabulary you wish to memorize over the long term. The application is based on a spaced repetition method. You build your vocabulary list and the application, thanks to its algorithm, helps you revise it.

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In the description of this video and as a pinned comment, I'll post a link to access this application. Let's move on to the ten new words we'll be looking at today, which made their entry into the dictionary a few weeks ago.

Among these new words is the male word, vaccinodrome. You may have heard this word if you watch television in French or read articles in French.

A vaccinodrome is a place where people are vaccinated on a fairly intensive basis. This word was coined following the development of the vaccine against covid.

So we use it to refer to a place where collective vaccinations are carried out. It can be a place like a tent that's been set up especially for vaccinations. But very often, we use it to refer to a place that has been refurbished for some time.

For example, it could be a gymnasium or a town hall. We're going to use a large space that allows as many people as possible to attend. Another word that entered the dictionary this year is wokism.

It's an English word.

Wokism comes from the word woke. Woke means awake. We pay attention to what's going on around us. We added "ism" to turn it into a current, a current of thought.

This current of thought will bring together many progressive ideas, for example on gender, ecology and open-mindedness.

He often evokes ideas that come from the radical left, from a committed left. For example, in the denunciation of racial discrimination, discrimination linked to people's sexuality, discrimination linked to stereotypes, discrimination linked to gender, and so on.

But in general, the term wokism is used by people who are against these progressive currents of thought. It's a pejorative term, used by opponents of this current of thought.

The next word is grossophobia. Grossophobia is a term used to describe mockery, discrimination, hostility and prejudice against people who are overweight, fat or obese.

For example, a person can be said to be grossophobic if they make fun of someone who is obese or overweight. Grossophobia means discriminating against someone, being mean to someone because of their morphology, because of their body.

Cyber-bullying. With social networks, there is more and more cyber-bullying.

Cyberstalking is when a person is harassed and receives lots and lots of messages, insults and nasty messages from other people on the Internet. So, for example, via Instagram.

The courts are taking this type of harassment via the Internet and social networks more and more seriously. And legal penalties can now be imposed on online harassers.

The next word is upcycling. If you're interested in ecology, in recovering objects, in second-hand goods, in reusing objects, you may be familiar with this word.

Upcycling means using old clothes or objects and transforming them to give them a second life. For example, we could make lamps out of plastic bottles. That's upcycling.

For example, hair scrunchies made from bed sheets that had holes in them and could no longer be used.

The next word to appear is narcissistic pervert, a psychology term.

It's quite complicated to explain, but a narcissistic pervert is often used in a love relationship. It's when someone wants to show off and be mean to the other person, devaluing him or her.

For example, she'll say "you're stupid" to make herself feel smarter. A narcissistic pervert will make the other person feel guilty and try to manipulate them. A narcissistic pervert will try to make the other person feel bad to keep control over them.

So, generally speaking, it's used in romantic relationships, but it can also be used in a professional or friendly context.

The next word is rather difficult to pronounce: invisibilization.

Invisibilization. When you make something invisible, it means you pretend it doesn't exist. It's the act of hiding things. For example, it's often said that women are invisibilized in history.

So women who have left their mark on history are less likely to be talked about.

Separatism. In general, this word is used to refer to the desire of a group of people to separate, for example, a region from the rest of a country.

In France, we often talk about Corsican separatism. So some Corsicans want their island to no longer be part of France, to be separated.

Separatism can also be linked to a cultural trait, to religion. So it's not just geographical.

The sanitary pass, the sanitary pass like the vaccinodrome, is a word that appeared following the Covid, following the Covid epidemic.

We still hear a lot about this term in France, especially when it comes to travel. When you live in France, you need a health pass to go to certain countries or to return to France.

The health pass can either prove that you don't have Covid, or that you're sufficiently protected. So, for example, at the moment in France, to get a health pass, you either need to have had three doses of vaccine, or you need to have had an antigenic test or a PCR test. It's a document that allows you to do a number of things, and proves that you're either not ill, or sufficiently protected against Covid.

And the last word we're going to look at today is a little more jovial. Let's call it flow.

Flow. In the beginning, we used it mostly in music. You have a good flow or this rapper has a good flow, so it's a good flow when he sings.

More and more, we use the word flow to talk about style. For example, I can say that Rihanna has too good a flow to say that she dresses very well, that she has a great style.

Of course, it's subjective, a bit like beauty.

It's a little rarer, but the word flow can also be used to talk about someone's concentration. For example, if I'm hyper-concentrated studying for my French exam, I can say I'm in a good flow to say I'm in a good rhythm. I'm completely immersed in the study. I'm completely immersed in the activity I'm doing.

That's it for today.

I hope you've learned some new vocabulary, that you like these new words that have entered the dictionary, and that from now on, if you hear them in French-language media, you'll understand what they mean.

If you liked this video, don't forget to put a "like" and don't forget, I've put the link to go and discover DuoCards in the video description and as a pinned comment if you're interested.

But I'm sure you're always interested in learning new vocabulary.

I'll see you very, very soon.