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Bad News From The Stars by Serge Gainsbourg is a great song to learn French through music. This page breaks down 14 lines with a clear, line-by-line translation, plus 2 key words such as news, stars. Singing along is one of the fastest ways to pick up natural pronunciation and make new phrases stick — far more memorable than plain word lists. Tap any line to open interactive mode and practice the vocabulary until you own it.

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Bad news from the stars

Song Vocabulary

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news

stars

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