A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Denizin Altındaki Göl Polly finds a big salty lake in a dry valley, with old coral in the rocks around it. Audio
- Sörfçüler Geliyor The riders arrive with jet skis and long boards, ready for the giant waves. Audio
- Her Çatıda Bir Varil Polly watches a raccoon carpenter build a wooden water tank on a rooftop, held together with steel rings... Audio
- İtalya'da asla latte sipariş etme In Italy, the word latte does not mean coffee. One small word can bring you a big surprise. Audio
- Kahve nereden gelir Coffee begins as a red fruit on a green plant and travels far before it fills a cup. Audio
- Gece treninde uyumak Night trains in Europe carry travelers between cities while they sleep in cozy beds. Audio
- Arılar balı nasıl yapar Honeybees turn sweet flower nectar into golden honey through hard teamwork in the hive. Audio
- İpeğin uzun yolu The Silk Road was a famous trade route that linked China with Europe for many centuries. Audio
- Amazon, en büyük nehir The Amazon is the river that carries the most water in the world. Audio
- Ahtapot ve üç kalbi The octopus is a clever sea animal with three hearts and blue blood. Audio
- Denizin altındaki kablolar Long cables under the ocean carry almost all of the information that travels between countries. Audio
- Maraton denilen uzun yarış The marathon is a very long running race with a curious and surprising history. Audio
- Köydeki ilk ışık While the whole village sleeps, one window glows: the baker lights the oven so fresh bread will be ready by... Audio
- Saatteki küçük kuş In Germany's Black Forest, carved wooden cuckoo clocks call out every hour while children wait and laugh. Audio
- Ölmenin yasak olduğu kasaba When a small Italian town ran out of space in its cemetery, the mayor signed an order telling people not to... Audio
- Otobüse binen kedi Every morning a cat climbs onto the same city bus, watches the streets go by, and gets off at his own stop. Audio
- Şelaleye tırmanan balık In Hawaii, a fish smaller than your finger climbs up waterfalls taller than buildings, using its mouth as a... Audio
- Buhar ve küçük tabaklar A first night at a Taipei night market, where pointing, smiling, and one brave question buy a very good... Audio
- Lizbon'da kaybolmak Sofía gets lost in Lisbon and a woman helps her with a map. Audio
- Balkonlu oda Marcos gets a hotel room with a nice balcony. Audio
- Bir kişilik masa Mia eats alone in a small restaurant, and the waiter helps her choose. Audio
- Bir zamanlar altın kadar pahalı olan baharat Saffron comes from tiny flower threads picked by hand, and for most of history a pound of it cost about the... Audio
- Her yaz kaybolan göl In Slovenia, a huge lake fills a valley in winter and then vanishes underground every summer, leaving... Audio
- Evimin yanındaki park A squirrel describes the small park next to its tree: the pigeons by the benches, Mr. Badger and his bread,... Audio
- Dondurmaya altın koyan şehir Kanazawa in Japan makes almost all of the country's gold leaf, and wraps whole sheets of it around soft ice... Audio
- Doksan saniye süren uçuş A tiny plane hops between two Orkney islands in Scotland on the shortest scheduled flight in the world. Audio
- Bağır, yoksa durağını kaçırırsın A shared minibus with no bell and no screen, where the only way off is to say so out loud, early and twice. Audio
- Hiç bitmeyen öğle yemeği In Spain, the best part of lunch starts when the food is finished. It even has its own name. Audio
- Küp şeklinde kaka yapan hayvan Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- Bu kuş uçarken uyuyor Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
- Bütün bir ülkenin yediği öğle yemeği In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. Audio
- Volkanın pişirdiği yemek In the Azores, people cook food inside a hot volcano. Audio
- Son tren Tomas misses the last train in Tokyo and sleeps in a tiny room. Audio
- Boş fincan On his first day, Pedro drinks from a cup that is not his. Audio
- Kırk yedi numara Carla waits a long time at the clinic for a small cut. Audio
- Höpürdetin, Kibarlıktır In Japan, slurping your noodles loudly is not rude, it is a sign that you are enjoying the meal. Audio
- Yukarı Akan Şelale On very windy days, strong gusts can blow a Norwegian waterfall's spray back up into the sky. Audio
- Halka ve Sabah Vapuru The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Doksan Günlük Tahıl In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Kayalıklardaki Toplanma Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Ellerinde Olanla Yaptılar On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Fırtınanın Altındaki Köy At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Ateşin Yanındaki Sandalye A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Vapur Limana Giriyor Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Pembe Diye Bir Şey Yok Pink has no wavelength of its own; it is a color the brain invents when the eyes see red and blue light... Audio
- Şu Anda Işıldıyorsun The human body constantly emits an extremely faint light, invisible to the eye but detectable with a... Audio
- Sis Arkasından Kapanıyor On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island before fog rolls in and hides it behind her. Audio
- Yanardağa Bağlı Bir Köy Polly learns that the same volcano heat that cooked lunch also warms a big public pool and heats homes in... Audio
- Şafakta Gömülen Akşam Yemeği Polly watches a cook bury pots of food in the ground, where the volcano's heat cooks dinner with no fire. Audio
- Tek Krater, İki Renk Polly finds a huge old crater with two lakes, one blue and one green, joined together under a strip of land. Audio
- İki Kez Kayıp Sayılan Kuş Polly looks for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird that lives only in one forest and was once thought to... Audio
- Avrupa'da Kalan Son İki Bahçe Polly finds one of the only two tea farms left in Europe, started after the island's orange trees died. Audio
- Dokuz Ada, Üç Levha Polly arrives over São Miguel, the biggest of the nine Azores islands, made of black rock, green fields,... Audio
- Polly otobüse biniyor Polly's first bus ride: does this bus go downtown, one ticket, how much, where do I get off, next stop,... Audio
- Polly yol soruyor Polly is lost on the way to the library and asks an owl for directions: excuse me, where is it, is it far,... Audio
- Polly kahve söylüyor Polly's first cafe order: good afternoon, a coffee with milk, do you have churros, the check please, how... Audio
- Polly pazarda Berta takes Polly to the market. Polly buys fruit for the first time: what is this, two apples, how much, a... Audio
- Polly yeni komşusuyla tanışıyor Polly moves to a new street and meets Berta the bear. First greetings: hello, your name, nice to meet you,... Audio
- Vladivostok Polly arrives in Vladivostok and flies off over the Pacific Ocean. Audio
- Amur Polly reaches the Amur River and meets a rare crane on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian. Audio
- Baykal Gölü Polly spends a day on the train along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on Earth. Audio
- Zaman Dilimleri Polly explores the dining car and learns that the train uses one time zone across all of Russia. Audio
- Ural Dağlarını Geçmek Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the line between Europe and Asia, on the Trans-Siberian train. Audio
- Huş Ormanları Polly watches Russian birch forests from the Trans-Siberian train and learns that forty percent of Russia... Audio
- Yaroslavsky İstasyonu Polly boards the Trans-Siberian train at Moscow and begins her seven-day journey to Vladivostok. Audio
- Makarnaya Veda Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples. Audio
- Kendi Editörü Polly learns that octopuses can change their own nervous systems by editing RNA in real time. Audio
- Pizza ve Uzun Öğle Yemeği Polly has lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria and learns about traditional Neapolitan pizza. Audio
- Gören Deri Polly learns that octopus skin can sense colours even though octopus eyes cannot. Audio
- Düşünen Vücut Polly watches an octopus solve a maze with two arms working independently. Audio
- Kavanoz Polly watches an octopus open a jar to catch a crab and learns how short an octopus's life is. Audio
- Napoli Körfezi Polly arrives in Naples and meets a giant Pacific octopus at the world's oldest marine biology institute. Audio
- Vadiden Ayrılış Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite. Audio
- Buzul Noktası Üzerinde Samanyolu Polly watches the Milky Way at Glacier Point and looks through a telescope at the centre of our galaxy. Audio
- Yarım Kubbe Polly flies up Half Dome on warm air with a flock of swifts, sees the summit, then glides back down. Audio
- Dalış Yapan Şahin Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive, learning what makes the falcon the fastest animal in the world. Audio
- Sekoya Polly visits a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old and learns about its fireproof bark. Audio
- Korucu Tomas ile Yolculuk Polly spends the morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning about bear feeding and peregrine falcon nests. Audio
- Vadinin Üzerinde Polly flies into Yosemite Valley, watches climbers on El Capitan, and rides the shuttle bus at dusk. Audio
- Tarçın Kokusu A new neighbor leaves a small surprise outside her door. Audio
- İki Kilo Sabır 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.
- Dev Dalga The giant waves arrive, a tiny rider flies down a wave taller than a building, and spray bursts over the fort. Audio
- Her Çatıda Fıçılar On a Manhattan rooftop, Polly watches a raccoon carpenter build a wooden water tower the old way, held... Audio
- Sen uyurken hareket eden otel On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Bir yanardağın pişirdiği akşam yemeği On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Kralın neredeyse hiç yaşamadığı kale A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Denizin tabanında yürümek Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Telefonunun soğukta neden bittiği Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Bir nehri ortaya çıkaran şehir For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- On kilometre yukarıda Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Eski insanlar yağmur ormanında gelişti Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Üç bin yıllık balın hâlâ yenilebilir olmasının nedeni Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Üç gün süren tenis maçı The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- Kilidi açan ahtapot An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- Peynirin her zaman kazandığı yarış Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Her biri tırnak büyüklüğünde iki yepyeni hayvan Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Gerçek bir böceğin bozduğu gün In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Kıskacında güneş taşıyan karides A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- İki ülke arasında bölünmüş ev In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Kuşlara yenilen ordu In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Şempanzelerin şivesi var A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- İnternet su altında Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- Küp şeklinde dışkı yapan hayvan Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- Tek bir binada yaşayan kasaba Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- Bu kuş uçarken uyur Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- Haritan öğlene kadar yanlış olurdu Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- Sen ışık saçıyorsun. Kimse göremiyor. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Bu mavi renk sadece bir yerde var A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- Bir kafe, iki ülke In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- Mesajların su altında yol alıyor Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- Geceleri mavi parlayan sahil On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- Tat Alabilen Bir Kol Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Atletizmin Gelmiş Geçmiş En Büyük Çeki A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Bir Bilgisayara Balina Dili Öğretmek Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Ağaçların Yavaş Kalp Atışı Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Sabahın Üçünde Çiçekler At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- On Bin Sporcu, Tek Açılış Gecesi The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Sadece Peynir Kabul Eden Banka An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Pildeki Sayı Bir Tahmin A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Bu Plaj Çöpten Yapılmış A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- Hiçbir Yerde Dördüncü Kat Yok In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Ural Dağlarını Geçerken Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Yaroslavski İstasyonu Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- Vadiden Ayrılmak Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- Süt Yolu Glacier Point Üzerinde Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Dalgıç Şahin Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- Pazar Paellası An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- Boş Kupa First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- Kırk Yedi Numarası A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- Granada Treni An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- Yanlış Kitapçı A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- 304 Numaralı Odanın Manzarası Var A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- Tek Kişilik Masa 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.
- On beş bin kilometre yol kat eden balina Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- Bir kayalıkta bulunan, kimsenin adlandırmadığı iki tür Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Avustralya'nın emulara kaybettiği savaş In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Meğer şempanzelerin de aksanı varmış A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Peynir karşılığında kredi veren banka An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Haritan neden öğle yemeğine kadar yanlış olurdu Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Derinin hiç durmadan yaydığı ışıltı Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Sözlerini bir okyanusun öbür yakasına gerçekte ne taşıyor Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- Sen uyurken sınırları geçen otel On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio
- Seul'ün yarım asır sakladığı nehir Seoul spent decades entombing a river beneath a highway, then reversed course and dug it back into the... Audio
- Pazar günü hâlâ neyi gerektiriyor An adult granddaughter returns home for Sunday paella and discovers that her octogenarian grandfather's... Audio
- Tek bir binanın içinde yaşayan kasaba Almost the entire population of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building, reached... Audio
- Kralının neredeyse hiç göremediği kale Bavaria's King Ludwig the Second poured a fortune into a fairy tale castle he would inhabit for barely a... Audio
- Telefonun ölmedi. Sadece üşüdü. A phone that shows forty percent battery and then dies the moment you step into the cold has not run out of... Audio
- İmparatorluklardan daha uzun ömürlü bal Honey sealed inside Egyptian tombs thousands of years ago remains perfectly edible today, and the reason... Audio
- Kilidinden sıyrılan ahtapot An octopus named Inky vanished from a New Zealand aquarium overnight, and the ingenious route he took to... Audio
- En Kurak Yerde Tırmanış Polly arrives at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama, the driest place on Earth, where four enormous... Audio
- Ural Dağlarını Aşmak Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Yaroslavskiy İstasyonu Polly boards the Rossiya, the flagship train of the Trans-Siberian Railway, at Moscow's Yaroslavsky... Audio