A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Le Géant The giant waves arrive, and a tiny rider flies down a wave as tall as a building. ? Quiz included Audio
- Sept Jupes et Poissons d'Argent Polly goes down to town and sees gull ladies in seven skirts drying fish in the sun. ? Quiz included Audio
- De l'herbe poussée exprès Polly learns that Central Park was built by hand on blasted rock, and that real sheep once ate the grass... ? Quiz included Audio
- La main ouverte du port Polly flies into New York Harbor and looks at the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France with metal skin no... ? Quiz included Audio
- Le déjeuner que tout un pays mange In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. ? Quiz included Audio
- Le Secret de la Fontaine Polly and Fatima, guided by a mysterious map, uncover a hidden courtyard in Marrakech. They decipher an... ? Quiz included Audio
- Une Course pour le Trésor Polly, Leila, and Omar team up to find the treasure, racing through Marrakech as obstacles arise, including... ? Quiz included Audio
- Le Canyon Sous la Mer Polly finds a giant canyon hidden under the sea near the beach. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- La course où le fromage gagne toujours Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Deux animaux tout neufs, chacun de la taille d'un ongle Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Le jour où un vrai insecte a fait planter un ordinateur In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- La crevette avec un soleil dans sa pince A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- La maison partagée entre deux pays In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Ce que le feu n'a jamais pris Polly takes one last high look at Kanazawa, waits out the rain from the sea, and leaves a city that kept... Audio
- L'armée qui a perdu contre des oiseaux In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Les chimpanzés ont un accent A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
B2 · Building confidence
Real places, real news, richer language.
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- La crevette qui a un soleil dans sa pince A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... ? Quiz included Audio
- Deux espèces que personne n'avait nommées, trouvées sur une falaise Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- La guerre que l'Australie a perdue contre les émeus In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Les chimpanzés, semble-t-il, ont des accents A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- La banque qui prête contre du fromage An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Pourquoi ta carte se tromperait avant midi Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- La lueur que ta peau n'arrête jamais d'émettre Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Ce qui porte vraiment tes mots à travers un océan Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio