A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Denizin Altındaki Göl Polly finds a big salty lake in a dry valley, with old coral in the rocks around it. Audio
- Sörfçüler Geliyor The riders arrive with jet skis and long boards, ready for the giant waves. Audio
- Her Çatıda Bir Varil Polly watches a raccoon carpenter build a wooden water tank on a rooftop, held together with steel rings... Audio
- İtalya'da asla latte sipariş etme In Italy, the word latte does not mean coffee. One small word can bring you a big surprise. Audio
- Kahve nereden gelir Coffee begins as a red fruit on a green plant and travels far before it fills a cup. Audio
- Gece treninde uyumak Night trains in Europe carry travelers between cities while they sleep in cozy beds. Audio
- Arılar balı nasıl yapar Honeybees turn sweet flower nectar into golden honey through hard teamwork in the hive. Audio
- İpeğin uzun yolu The Silk Road was a famous trade route that linked China with Europe for many centuries. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Her Çatıda Fıçılar On a Manhattan rooftop, Polly watches a raccoon carpenter build a wooden water tower the old way, held... Audio
- Sen uyurken hareket eden otel On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Bir yanardağın pişirdiği akşam yemeği On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Kralın neredeyse hiç yaşamadığı kale A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Denizin tabanında yürümek Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Telefonunun soğukta neden bittiği Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Bir nehri ortaya çıkaran şehir For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- On kilometre yukarıda Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- On beş bin kilometre yol kat eden balina Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- Bir kayalıkta bulunan, kimsenin adlandırmadığı iki tür Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Avustralya'nın emulara kaybettiği savaş In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Meğer şempanzelerin de aksanı varmış A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Peynir karşılığında kredi veren banka An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Haritan neden öğle yemeğine kadar yanlış olurdu Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Derinin hiç durmadan yaydığı ışıltı Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Sözlerini bir okyanusun öbür yakasına gerçekte ne taşıyor Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio