A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Srkajte glasno, tako je vljudno In Japan, slurping your noodles loudly is not rude, it is a sign that you are enjoying the meal. Audio
- Slap, ki pada navzgor On very windy days, strong gusts can blow a Norwegian waterfall's spray back up into the sky. Audio
- Krog in jutranja ladja The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Devetdesetdnevno žito In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Zbor na čereh Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Zgrajeno iz tega, kar so imeli On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Vas pod nevihto At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Stol ob ognju A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Ladja pripluje Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Rožnata barva ne obstaja Pink has no wavelength of its own; it is a color the brain invents when the eyes see red and blue light... Audio
- Prav zdaj svetiš The human body constantly emits an extremely faint light, invisible to the eye but detectable with a... Audio
- Megla se za njo zapre On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island before fog rolls in and hides it behind her. Audio
- Vas, priklopljena na vulkan Polly learns that the same volcano heat that cooked lunch also warms a big public pool and heats homes in... Audio
- Večerja, zakopana ob zori Polly watches a cook bury pots of food in the ground, where the volcano's heat cooks dinner with no fire. Audio
- En krater, dve barvi Polly finds a huge old crater with two lakes, one blue and one green, joined together under a strip of land. Audio
- Ptica, ki so jo dvakrat imeli za izgubljeno Polly looks for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird that lives only in one forest and was once thought to... Audio
- Zadnja dva vrtova v Evropi Polly finds one of the only two tea farms left in Europe, started after the island's orange trees died. Audio
- Devet otokov, tri plošče Polly arrives over São Miguel, the biggest of the nine Azores islands, made of black rock, green fields,... Audio