A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Coccodrilli in Acqua Salata There are hundreds of crocodiles in the salty lake, and the lake once grew and covered farms and roads. Audio
- Il Lago Sotto il Mare Polly finds a big salty lake in a dry valley, with old coral in the rocks around it. Audio
- Una Collina Piena di Buchi Men dig the blue stone out of the hill by hand, because machines would break it. Audio
- Acqua Che Si È Fatta Dura Inside the grey rock there is blue stone, and it comes from only one place in the world. Audio
- La Pietra Scese Lungo il Fiume Polly learns that the blue stone came down from the mountains, and that it has a name. Audio
- La Pietra Blu sulla Spiaggia Polly flies along a coast between mountains and the sea, and finds a strange blue stone. Audio
- Una Spiaggia Senza Nulla Sopra Polly finds a long empty beach in a national park, and then she flies home. Audio
- L'arrivo dei surfisti The riders arrive with jet skis and long boards, ready for the giant waves. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Il Lago Che Sta Sotto il Mare Polly finds the largest lake in the Caribbean, saltier than the ocean, lying in a valley lower than the sea. Audio
- Risali il Fiume e la Troverai The blue stone came down the river, not out of the sea. Polly follows it up into the mountains. Audio
- Otto Chilometri Senza Nulla Sopra Polly finds an empty protected bay at the far corner of the country, then flies home over the coffee... Audio
- La Strada Senza Più Spazio Polly arrives in the southwest of the Dominican Republic, where the mountains meet the sea, and finds one... Audio
- La corsa in cui vince sempre il formaggio Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Due animali nuovissimi, grandi quanto un'unghia Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Il giorno in cui un vero insetto ruppe un computer In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Il gamberetto con un sole dentro la chela A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
B2 · Building confidence
Real places, real news, richer language.
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Due specie mai classificate, trovate su una parete rocciosa Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- La guerra che l'Australia perse contro gli emù In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Gli scimpanzé, a quanto pare, hanno un accento A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- La banca che concede prestiti in cambio di formaggio An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Perché la tua mappa sbaglierebbe già prima di pranzo Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Il bagliore che la tua pelle non smette mai di emettere Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Che cosa porta davvero le tue parole oltreoceano Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- L'albergo che attraversa i confini mentre dormi On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio