A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- वह जानवर जो घन बनाता है Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- यह चिड़िया उड़ते हुए सोती है Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
- वह लंच जो पूरा देश खाता है In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. Audio
- ज्वालामुखी में पका खाना In the Azores, people cook food inside a hot volcano. Audio
- आख़िरी ट्रेन Tomas misses the last train in Tokyo and sleeps in a tiny room. Audio
- खाली कप On his first day, Pedro drinks from a cup that is not his. Audio
- नंबर सैंतालीस Carla waits a long time at the clinic for a small cut. Audio
- लिस्बन में खो गई Sofía gets lost in Lisbon and a woman helps her with a map. Audio
- बालकनी वाला कमरा Marcos gets a hotel room with a nice balcony. Audio
- एक के लिए मेज़ Mia eats alone in a small restaurant, and the waiter helps her choose. Audio
- वह मसाला जो कभी सोने जितना महँगा था Saffron comes from tiny flower threads picked by hand, and for most of history a pound of it cost about the... Audio
- वह झील जो हर गर्मी में गायब हो जाती है In Slovenia, a huge lake fills a valley in winter and then vanishes underground every summer, leaving... Audio
- मेरे घर के पास का पार्क A squirrel describes the small park next to its tree: the pigeons by the benches, Mr. Badger and his bread,... Audio
- वह शहर जो आइसक्रीम पर सोना लगाता है Kanazawa in Japan makes almost all of the country's gold leaf, and wraps whole sheets of it around soft ice... Audio
- वह उड़ान जो नब्बे सेकंड चलती है A tiny plane hops between two Orkney islands in Scotland on the shortest scheduled flight in the world. Audio
- चिल्लाओ, नहीं तो अपना स्टॉप छूट जाएगा A shared minibus with no bell and no screen, where the only way off is to say so out loud, early and twice. Audio
- वह लंच जो कभी खत्म नहीं होता In Spain, the best part of lunch starts when the food is finished. It even has its own name. Audio
- इटली में कभी लाते मत मँगाना In Italy, the word latte does not mean coffee. One small word can bring you a big surprise. Audio
- कॉफ़ी कहाँ से आती है Coffee begins as a red fruit on a green plant and travels far before it fills a cup. Audio
- रात की रेलगाड़ी में सोना Night trains in Europe carry travelers between cities while they sleep in cozy beds. Audio
- मधुमक्खियाँ शहद कैसे बनाती हैं Honeybees turn sweet flower nectar into golden honey through hard teamwork in the hive. Audio
- रेशम का लंबा रास्ता The Silk Road was a famous trade route that linked China with Europe for many centuries. Audio
- अमेज़न, सबसे बड़ी नदी The Amazon is the river that carries the most water in the world. Audio
- ऑक्टोपस और उसके तीन दिल The octopus is a clever sea animal with three hearts and blue blood. Audio
- समुद्र के नीचे की तारें Long cables under the ocean carry almost all of the information that travels between countries. Audio
- मैराथन नाम की लंबी दौड़ The marathon is a very long running race with a curious and surprising history. Audio
- गाँव में सबसे पहली रोशनी While the whole village sleeps, one window glows: the baker lights the oven so fresh bread will be ready by... Audio
- घड़ी में रहने वाली छोटी चिड़िया In Germany's Black Forest, carved wooden cuckoo clocks call out every hour while children wait and laugh. Audio
- वह कस्बा जहाँ मरना मना था When a small Italian town ran out of space in its cemetery, the mayor signed an order telling people not to... Audio
- वह बिल्ली जो बस में चढ़ती है Every morning a cat climbs onto the same city bus, watches the streets go by, and gets off at his own stop. Audio
- वह मछली जो झरने चढ़ती है In Hawaii, a fish smaller than your finger climbs up waterfalls taller than buildings, using its mouth as a... Audio
- भाप और छोटी थालियाँ A first night at a Taipei night market, where pointing, smiling, and one brave question buy a very good... Audio
- ज़ोर से सुड़कना यहाँ शिष्टाचार है In Japan, slurping your noodles loudly is not rude, it is a sign that you are enjoying the meal. Audio
- वह झरना जो ऊपर की तरफ़ गिरता है On very windy days, strong gusts can blow a Norwegian waterfall's spray back up into the sky. Audio
- पत्थरों का घेरा और सुबह की नाव The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- नब्बे दिन वाला अनाज In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- चट्टानों पर जमघट Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- जो कुछ पास था, उसी से बनाया On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- तूफ़ान के नीचे का गाँव At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- आग के पास वाली कुर्सी A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- नाव किनारे लगती है Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- गुलाबी रंग होता ही नहीं Pink has no wavelength of its own; it is a color the brain invents when the eyes see red and blue light... Audio
- तुम अभी इसी वक़्त चमक रहे हो The human body constantly emits an extremely faint light, invisible to the eye but detectable with a... Audio
- उसके पीछे कोहरा बंद हो जाता है On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island before fog rolls in and hides it behind her. Audio
- ज्वालामुखी से जुड़ा एक गाँव Polly learns that the same volcano heat that cooked lunch also warms a big public pool and heats homes in... Audio
- भोर में ज़मीन के नीचे दबाया गया रात का खाना Polly watches a cook bury pots of food in the ground, where the volcano's heat cooks dinner with no fire. Audio
- एक क्रेटर, दो रंग Polly finds a huge old crater with two lakes, one blue and one green, joined together under a strip of land. Audio
- वह चिड़िया जिसे दो बार खोया हुआ मान लिया गया Polly looks for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird that lives only in one forest and was once thought to... Audio
- यूरोप के आख़िरी दो बाग़ Polly finds one of the only two tea farms left in Europe, started after the island's orange trees died. Audio
- नौ द्वीप, तीन प्लेटें Polly arrives over São Miguel, the biggest of the nine Azores islands, made of black rock, green fields,... Audio
- पॉली बस में Polly's first bus ride: does this bus go downtown, one ticket, how much, where do I get off, next stop,... Audio
- पॉली और लाइब्रेरी का रास्ता Polly is lost on the way to the library and asks an owl for directions: excuse me, where is it, is it far,... Audio
- पॉली और एक कप कॉफ़ी Polly's first cafe order: good afternoon, a coffee with milk, do you have churros, the check please, how... Audio
- पॉली बाज़ार में Berta takes Polly to the market. Polly buys fruit for the first time: what is this, two apples, how much, a... Audio
- पॉली और नई पड़ोसन Polly moves to a new street and meets Berta the bear. First greetings: hello, your name, nice to meet you,... Audio
- व्लादिवोस्तोक Polly arrives in Vladivostok and flies off over the Pacific Ocean. Audio
- अमूर Polly reaches the Amur River and meets a rare crane on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian. Audio
- बैकाल झील Polly spends a day on the train along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on Earth. Audio
- समय क्षेत्र Polly explores the dining car and learns that the train uses one time zone across all of Russia. Audio
- उरल्स को पार करते हुए Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the line between Europe and Asia, on the Trans-Siberian train. Audio
- बर्च के जंगल Polly watches Russian birch forests from the Trans-Siberian train and learns that forty percent of Russia... Audio
- यारोस्लावस्की स्टेशन Polly boards the Trans-Siberian train at Moscow and begins her seven-day journey to Vladivostok. Audio
- पास्ता को अलविदा Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples. Audio
- स्वयं का संपादक Polly learns that octopuses can change their own nervous systems by editing RNA in real time. Audio
- पिज़्ज़ा और लंबा लंच Polly has lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria and learns about traditional Neapolitan pizza. Audio
- देखने वाली त्वचा Polly learns that octopus skin can sense colours even though octopus eyes cannot. Audio
- सोचने वाला शरीर Polly watches an octopus solve a maze with two arms working independently. Audio
- नेपल्स की खाड़ी Polly arrives in Naples and meets a giant Pacific octopus at the world's oldest marine biology institute. Audio
- घाटी को छोड़ते हुए Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite. Audio
- ग्लेशियर पॉइंट से आकाशगंगा Polly watches the Milky Way at Glacier Point and looks through a telescope at the centre of our galaxy. Audio
- आधा गुंबद Polly flies up Half Dome on warm air with a flock of swifts, sees the summit, then glides back down. Audio
- डाइविंग फाल्कन Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive, learning what makes the falcon the fastest animal in the world. Audio
- सिकोइया Polly visits a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old and learns about its fireproof bark. Audio
- रेन्जर टोमस के साथ सवारी Polly spends the morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning about bear feeding and peregrine falcon nests. Audio
- घाटी के ऊपर Polly flies into Yosemite Valley, watches climbers on El Capitan, and rides the shuttle bus at dusk. Audio
- दालचीनी की खुशबू A new neighbor leaves a small surprise outside her door. Audio
- दो किलो धैर्य A first trip to the local market with a vendor who refuses to let her leave with the wrong tomatoes. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- वह पुल जिसने कीमत वसूली Polly walks the Brooklyn Bridge and learns how building it underwater left more than a hundred workers... Audio
- वह दौड़ जिसमें चीज़ हमेशा जीतता है Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- दो बिलकुल नए जीव, हर एक नाखून जितना बड़ा Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- जिस दिन एक असली कीड़े ने कंप्यूटर बिगाड़ दिया In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- वह झींगा जिसके पंजे के अंदर सूरज है A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- वह घर जो दो देशों में बँटा है In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- वह सेना जो पक्षियों से हार गई In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- चिम्पैंज़ी की भी अपनी बोली होती है A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- इंटरनेट पानी के नीचे रहता है Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- वह जानवर जो घन के आकार की लीद करता है Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- वह कस्बा जो एक ही इमारत में रहता है Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- यह पक्षी उड़ते हुए ही सोता है Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- दोपहर तक तुम्हारा नक्शा गलत हो चुका होता Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- तुम चमकते हो। कोई इसे देख नहीं सकता। Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- यह नीला रंग सिर्फ़ एक जगह मिलता है A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- एक कैफ़े, दो देश In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- तुम्हारे संदेश पानी के नीचे से गुज़रते हैं Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- वह समुद्र तट जो रात को नीला चमकता है On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- वह होटल जो तुम्हारे सोते समय चलता है On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- ज्वालामुखी द्वारा पकाया गया रात का खाना On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- वह किला जिसमें राजा मुश्किल से रहा A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- समुद्र के तल पर चलना Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- ठंड में तुम्हारा फ़ोन क्यों बंद हो जाता है Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- वह शहर जिसने एक नदी को फिर से उजागर किया For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- ज़मीन से दस किलोमीटर ऊपर Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- आखिरी रेलगाड़ी In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- प्राचीन मानव वर्षावन में भी फलते फूलते रहे Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- तीन हज़ार साल पुराना शहद अब भी क्यों खाने लायक है Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- वह टेनिस मैच जो तीन दिन तक चला The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- वह ऑक्टोपस जिसने ताला खोल दिया An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- वह भुजा जो स्वाद ले सकती है Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- एथलेटिक्स की अब तक की सबसे बड़ी कमाई A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- कंप्यूटर को व्हेल की भाषा सिखाना Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- पेड़ों की धीमी धड़कन Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- रात के तीन बजे फूलों का बाज़ार At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- दस हज़ार खिलाड़ी, एक उद्घाटन की रात The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- वह बैंक जो सिर्फ़ पनीर लेता है An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- बैटरी का वह नंबर सिर्फ़ एक अंदाज़ा है A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- यह समुद्र तट कचरे से बना है A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- कहीं भी चौथी मंज़िल नहीं In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- कांच की बोतल Polly watches Pasta open a screw-top jar to catch a crab, learning that octopus arms taste what they touch... Audio
- हाफ डोम Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- गोता लगाती बाज़ Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- रेंजर टोमस के साथ सवारी Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- रविवार की पेला An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- खाली मग First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- ग्रेनाडा की ट्रेन An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- गलत किताबों की दुकान A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- लिस्बन में भटकना A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- कमरा 304 का नज़ारा A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- अकेले के लिए मेज़ A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio
- अकेले के लिए एक मेज़ A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- दो प्रजातियाँ जिन्हें किसी ने नाम नहीं दिया था, एक चट्टान पर मिलीं Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- वह जंग जो ऑस्ट्रेलिया एमू से हार गया In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- पता चला है, चिंपैंज़ी की भी अपनी बोली होती है A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- वह बैंक जो चीज़ के बदले क़र्ज़ देता है An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- दोपहर तक तुम्हारा नक़्शा ग़लत क्यों हो जाता Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- वह चमक जो तुम्हारी त्वचा कभी छोड़ना बंद नहीं करती Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- समुद्र के आर-पार तुम्हारे शब्दों को असल में कौन ले जाता है Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- वह होटल जो तुम्हारे सोते हुए सीमाएँ पार करता है On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio
- वह नदी जिसे सोल ने आधी सदी तक छुपाए रखा Seoul spent decades entombing a river beneath a highway, then reversed course and dug it back into the... Audio
- जो इतवार आज भी माँगता है An adult granddaughter returns home for Sunday paella and discovers that her octogenarian grandfather's... Audio
- वह क़स्बा जो एक ही इमारत के अंदर बसता है Almost the entire population of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building, reached... Audio
- वह क़िला जिसे उसके राजा ने मुश्किल से देखा Bavaria's King Ludwig the Second poured a fortune into a fairy tale castle he would inhabit for barely a... Audio
- समुद्र की तलहटी पर चलना Twice each day, the tide withdraws for kilometres along the Wattenmeer coast, inviting walkers onto the... Audio
- तुम्हारा फ़ोन मरा नहीं है, वह बस ठंडा है A phone that shows forty percent battery and then dies the moment you step into the cold has not run out of... Audio
- वह शहद जिसने साम्राज्यों को पीछे छोड़ दिया Honey sealed inside Egyptian tombs thousands of years ago remains perfectly edible today, and the reason... Audio
- वह ऑक्टोपस जो ताला खोलकर भाग गया An octopus named Inky vanished from a New Zealand aquarium overnight, and the ingenious route he took to... Audio
- वह व्हेल जिसने पंद्रह हज़ार किलोमीटर की यात्रा की Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- सबसे सूखी जगह पर चढ़ाई Polly arrives at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama, the driest place on Earth, where four enormous... Audio
- मर्तबान Polly watches a giant Pacific octopus named Pasta open a screw-top jar to retrieve a live crab. She learns... Audio
- घाटी को अलविदा Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas at the visitor centre and lifts off west out of Yosemite, leaving behind... Audio
- ग्लेशियर पॉइंट के ऊपर आकाशगंगा Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- गोता लगाता बाज़ Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive after seeing one launch from El Capitan, learning about the... Audio
- सेकोइया Polly visits Mariposa Grove and climbs into the canopy of the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000... Audio
- रेंजर टोमस के साथ सफर Polly rides shotgun with Ranger Tomas Rodriguez through Yosemite for a morning, learning how rangers... Audio