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.
- Donde las Paredes se Levantan The canyon walls get very tall. Polly sees dark lines made by water and rides the warm air. ? Quiz included Audio
- El Muro Bajo Polly lands at a canyon in Arizona. The walls are small, but a raven says the canyon grows. ? Quiz included Audio
- 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
- Una playa sin nada Polly finds a long empty beach in a national park, and then she flies home. ? 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
- El Gigante The giant waves arrive, and a tiny rider flies down a wave as tall as a building. ? Quiz included Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- El lago que está debajo del mar Polly finds the largest lake in the Caribbean, saltier than the ocean, lying in a valley lower than the sea. ? Quiz included Audio
- Sube el río y lo encontrarás The blue stone came down the river, not out of the sea. Polly follows it up into the mountains. ? Quiz included Audio
- Ocho kilómetros sin nada encima Polly finds an empty protected bay at the far corner of the country, then flies home over the coffee... ? Quiz included Audio
- El camino que se queda sin espacio Polly arrives in the southwest of the Dominican Republic, where the mountains meet the sea, and finds one... ? Quiz included Audio
- 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
B2 · Building confidence
Real places, real news, richer language.
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Los caballos del cauce Thunder without clouds turns out to have legs: horses running loose along the flat sand, and walls that... ? Quiz included Audio
- 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... ? Quiz included 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