A1 · First steps
Everyday topics in short, simple sentences.
- Polly pide un café Polly's first cafe order: good afternoon, a coffee with milk, do you have churros, the check please, how... ? Quiz included Audio
- Polly en el mercado Berta takes Polly to the market. Polly buys fruit for the first time: what is this, two apples, how much, a... ? Quiz included Audio
- Polly conoce a alguien Polly moves to a new street and meets Berta the bear. First greetings: hello, your name, nice to meet you,... ? Quiz included Audio
A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Cocodrilos en agua salada There are hundreds of crocodiles in the salty lake, and the lake once grew and covered farms and roads. ? Quiz included Audio
- Agua que se volvió dura Inside the grey rock there is blue stone, and it comes from only one place in the world. ? Quiz included Audio
- El Farol Rojo Polly lands on a red lighthouse in Nazaré, and an old albatross says giant waves are coming. ? Quiz included Audio
- Llegan los surfistas The riders arrive with jet skis and long boards, ready for the giant waves. ? Quiz included Audio
- La Rueda Espera la Primavera Polly ends her week at a quiet Coney Island, past a giant steel wheel from nineteen twenty and an old hot... ? Quiz included Audio
- Barriles en cada techo Polly watches a raccoon carpenter build a wooden water tank on a rooftop, held together with steel rings... ? Quiz included Audio
- Hierba Plantada a Propósito Polly learns that Central Park was built by hand on blasted rock, and that real sheep once ate the grass... ? Quiz included Audio
- La estación por donde nadie pasa Polly finds an old subway station built to look nice, closed long ago because new trains were too long for... ? Quiz included Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Barriles en Cada Tejado On a Manhattan rooftop, Polly watches a raccoon carpenter build a wooden water tower the old way, held... ? Quiz included Audio
- Una tarta entera, o solo un pedazo At a coal-oven pizzeria from nineteen oh five, Polly watches the old New York trick of selling one slice at... ? Quiz included Audio
- La estación por la que nadie pasa Polly follows the first subway line to a curved, tiled station built to impress in nineteen oh four and... ? Quiz included Audio
- Mañana de rosa y fuego On the last morning, Polly watched the sun climb over the canyon. ? Quiz included Audio
- Observando una galaxia Polly watches an observation of an active galactic nucleus 47 million light years away and thinks about how... ? Quiz included Audio
- El día en el lugar más seco Polly drives into the Atacama with site engineer Diego, learning about flash floods, meteorite-rich ground,... ? Quiz included Audio
- Abriendo la Cúpula Polly watches the dome of UT1, one of the four 8.2-metre telescopes of the Very Large Telescope, open for... ? Quiz included Audio
- Vladivostok Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... ? Quiz included Audio
B2 · Building confidence
Real places, real news, richer language.
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Hierba Crecida a Propósito In Central Park, Polly learns the whole landscape was built by hand on bare rock, blasted with more... ? Quiz included Audio
- Dos especies que nadie había nombrado, halladas en la pared de un acantilado Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- El camarón que lleva un sol dentro de su pinza A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- La guerra que Australia perdió contra los emús In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Resulta que los chimpancés tienen acento A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- El banco que presta dinero a cambio de queso An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Por qué tu mapa se equivocaría antes de la hora de comer Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- El resplandor que tu piel nunca deja de emitir Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio