A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- 통행료를 받는 다리 Polly walks the Brooklyn Bridge, where workers got sick building it underwater, and elephants once proved... ? Quiz included Audio
- 일부러 기른 잔디 Polly learns that Central Park was built by hand on blasted rock, and that real sheep once ate the grass... Audio
- 정육면체 똥을 만드는 동물 Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- 날면서 잠을 자는 새 Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
- 한 나라 전체가 먹는 점심 In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. Audio
- 화산이 요리한 저녁 In the Azores, people cook food inside a hot volcano. Audio
- 마지막 기차 Tomas misses the last train in Tokyo and sleeps in a tiny room. Audio
- 빈 컵 On his first day, Pedro drinks from a cup that is not his. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- 통행료를 받아낸 다리 Polly walks the Brooklyn Bridge and learns how building it underwater left more than a hundred workers... Audio
- 온 나라가 함께 먹는 점심 In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- 당신의 지도는 점심때쯤이면 틀려 있을 것이다 Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- 당신은 빛난다. 아무도 볼 수 없을 뿐. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- 이 파란색은 한 곳에만 있어요 A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- 카페 하나, 두 나라 In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- 메시지는 바닷속을 지나간다 Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- 밤에 파랗게 빛나는 해변 On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- 절벽에서 발견된, 아무도 이름 붙이지 않았던 두 생물 Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... ? Quiz included Audio
- 만오천 킬로미터를 헤엄친 고래 Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- 집게발 속에 태양을 품은 새우 A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- 호주가 에뮤에게 진 전쟁 In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- 알고 보니 침팬지도 사투리가 있다 A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- 치즈를 담보로 돈을 빌려주는 은행 An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- 왜 당신의 지도는 점심때쯤이면 틀려 있을까 Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- 피부가 멈추지 않고 내뿜는 빛 Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio