A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- 港の開いた手 Polly flies into New York Harbor and looks at the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France with metal skin no... ? Quiz included Audio
- ライダーたちが来る The riders arrive with jet skis and long boards, ready for the giant waves. Audio
- 七枚のスカートと銀色の魚 Polly goes down to town and sees gull ladies in seven skirts drying fish in the sun. Audio
- 橋が奪ったもの Polly walks the Brooklyn Bridge, where workers got sick building it underwater, and elephants once proved... Audio
- 立方体を作る動物 Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- 飛びながら眠るこの鳥 Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
- 国中が食べる昼食 In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. Audio
- 火山が作る夕食 In the Azores, people cook food inside a hot volcano. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- 港が広げた手 Polly flies into New York Harbor and looks closely at the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France built so... Audio
- チーズが必ず勝つレース Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- 爪ほどの大きさの、新種の動物二種 Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- 本物の虫がコンピューターを止めた日 In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- はさみの中に太陽を持つエビ A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- 二つの国に分かれた家 In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- 働く通りの提灯 In Higashi Chaya, Polly finds a lantern-lit street of wooden teahouses that still works today, and a shop... Audio
- 夜明け前の台所 Before dawn at Omicho market, Polly sees fish laid out on ice in a market three hundred years old, and... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- 崖の斜面で見つかった、誰も名付けていなかった二つの新種 Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... ? Quiz included Audio
- 爪の中に太陽を持つエビ A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- オーストラリアがエミューに敗れた戦争 In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- チンパンジーには訛りがあるらしい A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- チーズを担保にお金を貸す銀行 An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- 昼までに地図が狂ってしまう理由 Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- あなたの肌が発し続ける光 Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- あなたの言葉を海の向こうへ運んでいる本当のもの Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio