A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Srkajte glasno, tako je vljudno In Japan, slurping your noodles loudly is not rude, it is a sign that you are enjoying the meal. Audio
- Slap, ki pada navzgor On very windy days, strong gusts can blow a Norwegian waterfall's spray back up into the sky. Audio
- Krog in jutranja ladja The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Devetdesetdnevno žito In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Zbor na čereh Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Zgrajeno iz tega, kar so imeli On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Vas pod nevihto At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Stol ob ognju A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Krak, ki zna okušati Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Največji zaslužek v zgodovini atletike A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Računalnik se uči kitovsko Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Počasni srčni utrip dreves Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Cvetje ob treh zjutraj At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Deset tisoč športnikov, en otvoritveni večer The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Banka, ki sprejema samo sir An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Odstotek baterije je samo ugibanje A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio