A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Nikdy si v Itálii neobjednávej latte In Italy, the word latte does not mean coffee. One small word can bring you a big surprise. Audio
- Odkud pochází káva Coffee begins as a red fruit on a green plant and travels far before it fills a cup. Audio
- Spánek v nočním vlaku Night trains in Europe carry travelers between cities while they sleep in cozy beds. Audio
- Jak včely dělají med Honeybees turn sweet flower nectar into golden honey through hard teamwork in the hive. Audio
- Dlouhá hedvábná cesta The Silk Road was a famous trade route that linked China with Europe for many centuries. Audio
- Amazonka, největší řeka The Amazon is the river that carries the most water in the world. Audio
- Chobotnice a její tři srdce The octopus is a clever sea animal with three hearts and blue blood. Audio
- Kabely pod mořem Long cables under the ocean carry almost all of the information that travels between countries. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Večeře uvařená sopkou On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Zámek, ve kterém král skoro nebydlel A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Chůze po dně moře Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Proč ti v zimě umírá telefon Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Město, které odkrylo řeku For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Deset kilometrů nad zemí Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Pravěcí lidé prospívali v deštném pralese Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Proč je med starý tři tisíce let stále poživatelný Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Velryba, která urazila patnáct tisíc kilometrů Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- Dva druhy, které nikdo nepojmenoval, nalezené na skalní stěně Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Kreveta se sluncem uvnitř klepeta A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- Válka, kterou Austrálie prohrála s emu In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Šimpanzi mají, jak se ukazuje, svůj přízvuk A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Banka, která půjčuje na sýr An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Proč by tvoje mapa byla do oběda špatně Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Záře, kterou tvoje kůže nikdy nepřestane vyzařovat Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio