PollyStop
B1 · Hitta flytet Ord: 183 · 2 min

The Last Train

Illustration till The Last Train

Innan du läser

Innan du läser

Lyssna när Polly läser
Röst: engelska

Tomas looked at his phone and felt his stomach drop. It was twelve ten in the morning, and the station gates were closing. In Tokyo, the trains do not run all night. The last train on most lines leaves around midnight, and everyone in the city knows the exact time of theirs. Tomas, who had been in the country for four days, did not.

A taxi across the city would cost more than his hotel room. A station worker saw his face and pointed down the street...

A taxi across the city would cost more than his hotel room. A station worker saw his face and pointed down the street. There, between a convenience store and a noodle shop, glowed a sign for a capsule hotel. Tomas paid at a machine, took a locker key, and slept in a clean plastic pod the size of a single bed, in a quiet room full of other people who had also missed their trains.

In the morning he bought coffee from a vending machine and took the first train home, fresh and slightly proud. Now h...

In the morning he bought coffee from a vending machine and took the first train home, fresh and slightly proud. Now he checks one thing before any evening out in Japan: not the menu, not the map, but the time of the last train.

Det var berättelsen.

Din AI-lärare

Säg det nu högt. Prata om berättelsen med Polly.

Polly är PollyStops röstlärare. Hon pratar med dig om berättelser som den här, högt.

Hämta PollyStop gratis.

  • En ny berättelse på din nivå varje dag, med ljud.
  • Spara orden du möter och öva på dem senare.
  • Talövning med feedback.
  • Polly, röstläraren, öppnar för fler och fler elever.

Fortsätt lära dig i PollyStop

Lyssna, spara ord, öva

Hämta appen