Sunday, November 1
Sunday, November 1
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Study: British party leaders cannot hear the word 'resign'
News · A1 · 1 min
New tools help rangers protect lions in Namibia
News · A1 · 1 min
A new opera house opens in Shanghai
News · A1 · 1 min
A tall statue of an ancient king now stands in Atlanta
News · A1 · 1 min
A charity plans a green ring around London
Made-up headlines. Real grammar.
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Live: German parliament debates how long to debate, day three
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Insurer says your left leg is out of network
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Study: London rent goes up faster than light
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Billionaire's yacht gets food help from the government
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Cheap airline says your coat now needs a ticket
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Italy's Free Beaches Law: the sea must buy a ticket
Satire · A1 · 1 min
France sets record: a new minister every morning
Satire · A1 · 1 min
Study: old signal from space is phone hold music
We'll put it first every morning. You can read every sign anytime.
Travel · A1 · 2 min
The seven old streets of Bilbao
Read the story ›Education · A1 · 2 min
Ciao once meant "I am your slave"
Education · A1 · 2 min
The banjo and its African story
Education · A1 · 2 min
The capsule that brought 33 miners up
Education · A1 · 2 min
The boy and the first insulin
Series and short stories, written for your level.
Series · 5 episodes
Two strangers grab identical brown suitcases at a regional airport and notice the swap only at opposite ends of the country. As their plan to meet keeps slipping, each comes to know the other through the belongings they're carrying — one object at a time.
Series · 5 episodes
Two children of traveling market families meet at a spring fair and become inseparable as their families' routes crisscross the countryside all season — quietly solving one small fair-day problem at a time, until the last fair of the year forces a promise.
Series · 5 episodes
A young island teacher and the deckhand on her Friday ferry fall slowly into something neither will name — forty minutes of grey-green water, once a week, where almost nothing is said and everything happens.
Series · 5 episodes
Two hikers walk the same mountain trail one day apart, trading notes in the hut logbooks they should never be able to answer — until an old bread-carrier and his mule start ferrying the pages up the mountain. A romance in two handwritings on one page.
Series · 5 episodes
A tiny bakery opens only at night, for the people the day forgets. The baker says little and gives you not the bread you ask for but the bread you need — while a single old coin appears on the windowsill each night, left by no one he ever sees.
Series · 5 episodes
Every September, grape-pickers from different countries share one farmhouse and one rule: everyone cooks one night. Each dinner brings a dish from home and the story it carries — and this year, two of the workers begin something quiet at the long table.
