C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Idź pod prąd, a go znajdziesz The blue stone did not come from the sea. Polly follows the river up into the mountains, the way two men... Audio
- Droga, na której brakuje miejsca Polly reaches the southwest corner of the Dominican Republic, where the mountains push the road against the... Audio
- Osiem kilometrów, na których nic nie ma At the far southwest tip of the country there is a bay with nothing built on it, and then it is time to fly... Audio
- Jezioro poniżej poziomu morza Inland from Barahona lies the largest lake in the Caribbean, saltier than the ocean, in a valley lower than... Audio
- Wzgórze pełne dziur Above one village the mountain is worked entirely by hand, because the only machine that could get the blue... Audio
- Krokodyle w słonej wodzie The salt lake holds the largest gathering of American crocodiles in the Caribbean, an island of rare... Audio
- Woda, która stała się twarda In the workshops of Barahona the rough rock is opened, and inside is a blue that exists in exactly one... Audio
- Dwa gatunki, których nikt nie nazwał, znalezione na ścianie skalnej Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Krewetka ze słońcem w kleszczu A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- Wojna, którą Australia przegrała z emu In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Okazuje się, że szympansy mają akcenty A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Bank, który udziela pożyczek pod zastaw sera An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Dlaczego twoja mapa myliłaby się już przed obiadem Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Blask, którego twoja skóra nigdy nie przestaje wydzielać Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Co naprawdę niesie twoje słowa przez ocean Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- Hotel, który przekracza granice, gdy śpisz On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio
- Rzeka, którą Seul ukrywał przez pół wieku Seoul spent decades entombing a river beneath a highway, then reversed course and dug it back into the... Audio
- Czego wciąż wymaga niedziela An adult granddaughter returns home for Sunday paella and discovers that her octogenarian grandfather's... Audio
- Miasteczko, które mieści się w jednym budynku Almost the entire population of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building, reached... Audio
- Jedna kawiarnia, dwa kraje In the Belgian Dutch town of Baarle, the international border runs straight through streets, houses, and... Audio
- Zamek, który jego król ledwie zdążył zobaczyć Bavaria's King Ludwig the Second poured a fortune into a fairy tale castle he would inhabit for barely a... Audio
- Spacer po dnie morza Twice each day, the tide withdraws for kilometres along the Wattenmeer coast, inviting walkers onto the... Audio
- Twój telefon nie jest martwy. Jest tylko zimny. A phone that shows forty percent battery and then dies the moment you step into the cold has not run out of... Audio
- Dziesięć kilometrów w górze Passenger jets cruise about ten kilometres up not for the view but because that is where thin air starts... Audio
- Miód, który przetrwał imperia Honey sealed inside Egyptian tombs thousands of years ago remains perfectly edible today, and the reason... Audio
- Ośmiornica, która wymknęła się z zamknięcia An octopus named Inky vanished from a New Zealand aquarium overnight, and the ingenious route he took to... Audio
- Wieloryb, który przepłynął piętnaście tysięcy kilometrów Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- Czego ogień nigdy nie zabrał Polly makes one last high pass over Kanazawa, waits out the rain that comes off the Sea of Japan almost... Audio
- Lampiony na pracującej ulicy In Higashi Chaya, Polly finds a lantern-lit street of wooden teahouses that is still a working... Audio
- Kuchnia o pierwszym świetle Before dawn at Omicho market, Polly watches fish laid out on ice in a market three hundred years old, and... Audio
- Bite, aż prawie go nie ma In a gold leaf workshop, Polly learns that Kanazawa makes almost all of Japan's gold leaf, and that a piece... Audio
- Sześć rzeczy, którymi ogród powinien być In Kenrokuen, Polly watches koi turn under a famous pond and learns how gardeners rig great cones of rope... Audio
- Białe dachy i długie mury At Kanazawa Castle, Polly walks ramparts built by the richest lords in Japan and finds roofs tiled in lead,... Audio
- Miasto, które ocalało Polly arrives in Kanazawa, a city held between the Sea of Japan and the mountains, and finds an old wooden... Audio
- Krąg i poranny statek On her last evening, Polly finds an ancient stone circle raised over four thousand years ago and sits... Audio
- Ziarno dziewięćdziesięciu dni At an old water mill, Polly learns how an ancient, fast-ripening barley became Orkney's daily bread and its... Audio
- Zgromadzenie na skałach At a small chapel built by prisoners of war from two metal huts, an islander tells Polly how the most... Audio
- Zbudowane z tego, co mieli Polly finds one of the world's most important grey seal breeding grounds gathering on Orkney's skerries... Audio
- Wioska pod sztormem In a harbourside workshop, Polly watches the straw-backed Orkney chair take shape, a design born entirely... Audio
- Krzesło przy ogniu A storm-uncovered mound turns out to be a five-thousand-year-old stone village, older than Stonehenge and... Audio
- Poranny statek przybija Polly arrives over a windswept, treeless archipelago and learns that beneath its ordinary green fields lie... Audio
- Mgła zamyka się za nią On her last afternoon, Polly climbs high over the whole island one more time before fog rolls in from the... Audio
- Wioska podłączona do wulkanu Walking through the village, Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant... Audio
- Kolacja zakopana o świcie Beside a steaming lake, Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below,... Audio
- Jeden krater, dwa kolory Polly finds an ancient volcanic crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined... Audio
- Ptak, którego dwukrotnie uznano za straconego Deep in an old laurel forest, Polly searches for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found nowhere else... Audio
- Ostatnie dwa ogrody Europy Polly lands on a terraced hillside where one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe still uses... Audio
- Dziewięć wysp, trzy płyty Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and finds a coastline of black... Audio
- Polly jedzie autobusem One nervous first ride, a capybara who has seen it all, and the exact moment a new neighborhood starts... Audio
- Polly pyta o drogę Twenty minutes of proud wandering, one patient owl, and the discovery that a single question is worth more... Audio
- Polly zamawia kawę A rainy afternoon pushes Polly into the corner cafe, where a badger with a bow tie, a first coffee order,... Audio
- Polly na targu Berta keeps her promise and walks Polly through the Saturday market, where a spiky fruit, a chatty goat,... Audio
- Polly poznaje kogoś On moving day, Polly meets Berta the bear watering her geraniums, and a chat over the fence turns into a... Audio
- Wspinaczka po Najsuchszym Miejscu Polly arrives at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama, the driest place on Earth, where four enormous... Audio
- Władywostok Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the Trans-Siberian's 9,289 kilometres, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- Amur Polly reaches the Russian Far East on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering... Audio
- Jezioro Bajkał Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest, and... Audio
- Strefy czasowe Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day of the Trans-Siberian and learns that the whole train runs... Audio
- Przekraczając Ural Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Brzozowe Lasy Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian crossing the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Dworzec Jarosławski Polly boards the Rossiya, the flagship train of the Trans-Siberian Railway, at Moscow's Yaroslavsky... Audio
- Pożegnanie z Pastą Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus, who presses one arm against the glass exactly opposite where... Audio
- Redaktor Samego Siebie Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, tuning their nervous systems to their... Audio
- Pizza i długi lunch Polly takes the long lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules behind... Audio
- Skóra, która widzi Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Ciało, które myśli Polly watches Pasta solve an acrylic maze using two arms independently. She learns that two-thirds of an... Audio
- Słoik Polly watches a giant Pacific octopus named Pasta open a screw-top jar to retrieve a live crab. She learns... Audio
- Zatoka Neapolitańska Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, the world's oldest marine... Audio
- Opuszczając Dolinę Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas at the visitor centre and lifts off west out of Yosemite, leaving behind... Audio
- Droga Mleczna nad Glacier Point Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Półkopuła Polly climbs the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome on rising thermals with a flock of white-throated... Audio
- Nurkujący Sokół Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive after seeing one launch from El Capitan, learning about the... Audio
- Sekwoja Polly visits Mariposa Grove and climbs into the canopy of the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000... Audio
- Jazda z leśniczym Tomasem Polly rides shotgun with Ranger Tomas Rodriguez through Yosemite for a morning, learning how rangers... Audio
- Nad Doliną Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, taking in the U-shaped glacial geology, El Capitan with... Audio