A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Animalul care face cuburi Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- Această pasăre doarme în timp ce zboară Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
- Prânzul pe care îl mănâncă o țară întreagă In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. Audio
- Cina gătită de un vulcan In the Azores, people cook food inside a hot volcano. Audio
- Ultimul tren Tomas misses the last train in Tokyo and sleeps in a tiny room. Audio
- Cana goală On his first day, Pedro drinks from a cup that is not his. Audio
- Numărul patruzeci și șapte Carla waits a long time at the clinic for a small cut. Audio
- Pierdută în Lisabona Sofía gets lost in Lisbon and a woman helps her with a map. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Castelul în care regele aproape că nu a locuit A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Mersul pe fundul mării Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- De ce ți se închide telefonul pe frig Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Orașul care a redescoperit un râu For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- La zece kilometri înălțime Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Oamenii preistorici au prosperat în pădurea tropicală Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- De ce mierea veche de trei mii de ani încă se poate mânca Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Meciul de tenis care a durat trei zile The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Două specii pe care nimeni nu le numise, găsite pe o stâncă Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Războiul pe care Australia l-a pierdut în fața emu In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Cimpanzeii, se dovedește, au accente A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Banca ce acordă împrumuturi garantate cu brânză An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- De ce harta ta ar fi greșită până la prânz Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Licărul pe care pielea ta nu încetează niciodată să îl emită Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Ce îți duce cu adevărat cuvintele peste un ocean Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- Hotelul care trece granițele în timp ce dormi On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio