Easy Stories in English

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === The Toy Rabbit met the Boy on Christmas day, and quickly fell in love with him. But the other toys were mean to the Rabbit, and said that he would never be Real. But what did it mean to be Real? Today's story is The Toy Rabbit. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Toy for the full transcript. Level: Pre-Intermediate. Genre: Children's. Vocabulary: Wh...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Today we have three stories about magical creatures called elves. Sometimes they're nice, and sometimes they're horrible! Today's story is Stories of Elves. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Elves for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Children's. Vocabulary: Stay up, Hide, Naked, Dirt, Sweep, Employer, Christening, Shell. Setting: Fairy...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Today's story is about the origin of mosquitoes, and it comes from Vietnam. Thank you to Huynh Bao Thi for writing the story and sending it to me! Today's story is Three Drops of Blood. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Blood for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Myths and Legends. Vocabulary: Cure, Heaven, Sacrifice, Drop, Pay a debt,...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === There is a brother and sister who live with their father and their stepmother. She hits them every day, so they decide to leave. They will face magical forests, curious Kings and terrible baths before they get their happy ending... Today's story is Brother and Sister. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/BrotherSister for the full transcript. Level:...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === There is a king who knows all the secrets in the country. Every night he asks for a special dish, and nobody knows what is inside. So one day, the King's servant looks inside and finds a cooked snake. Little does he know, the snake has special powers... Today's story is The White Snake. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Snake for the full transcri...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Grella is a strange dragon: she'll eat everything except jewels, and what dragon doesn't eat jewels? So one day, her mother takes away all the other food in the house, and Grella is forced to try the dreaded jewels. Except she finds out she likes them, and in fact, she likes them a bit too much... Today's story is The Very Hungry Dragon. Go to...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === A young man fights in the war, and he does very well. The King says he can marry his daughter, but she is very strange. She says, 'If I die before you, you must be buried alive with me.' The man says yes. After all, he will probably die before her. But he is not so lucky... Today's story is The Three Snake Leaves. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === One day, a young man called Anders hears his brother say, 'Oh, those scary stories make me shudder!' "I wonder what it means to shudder?" Anders thinks, and he goes out on a journey to find out. Today's story is The Boy Who Knew No Fear. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Fear for the full transcript. Level: Pre-Intermediate. Genre: Horror. Vocabul...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Throughout the cities of Europe, the Jewish people have been attacked and kicked out, and the Jews of Prague are worried about their safety. Their leader, Rabbi Loew, wants to protect his people, but his solution may only put them at more risk... Today's story is The Golem of Prague. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Golem for the full transcript....

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Buddha is about to leave Earth, and he wants to say goodbye to the animals in a special way: he will have a race, and name the years after them in the order they win. Today's story is The Great Race. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Race for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Myths & Legends. Vocabulary: Earth (planet), Stupid, Cheat, A...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === One day, a mother goat leaves her seven children to find food in the forest. Before she leaves, she warns them about the big bad wolf, who has a deep voice and big black feet... Today's story is The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Goats for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Children's. Vocabulary: Wolf,...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === One day, Major Kovaloff wakes up and finds his nose is gone. Not only that, but it's dressed up like a city officer, heading all over Russia, and he can't figure out who stole it from him! Today's story is The Nose That Ran Away. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Nose2 for the full transcript. Level: Pre-Intermediate. Genre: Comedy. Vocabulary: Ci...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === There is a cat and mouse, and they are very good friends. They live together, and everyone calls them the "Strange Friends". But they must buy food and keep it for winter. So they get a pot of fat, and put it in the church, but the cat gets hungry... Today's story is Strange Friends. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Friends for the full transcrip...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Ludwik Zamenhof grew up in Białystok, a Polish city divided into Russians, Poles, Germans and Jews. The four groups fight, and don't understand each other. One day Ludwik has an idea: what if everyone could speak the same language? Would it help solve conflicts? Today's story is The Boy Who Hoped. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Hope for the ful...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Once there was a girl called Arachne. She was an excellent weaver. But one day, the goddess of weaving, Athena, came to visit her. Athena says she is a great weaver, and Arachne thanks her... Today's story is Arachne, the Spider Woman. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/SpiderWoman for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Myths & Legends. V...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === In the Blue Castle, everything is soft and blue. In the Red Castle, everything is bright and strong. The two lands each have their princesses, and the two lands hate each other. But the princesses will have to work together to create peace... Today's story is Sleeping Beauty. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Sleeping for the full transcript. Leve...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Elisabeth, Steve and Xu all live together in Rosa's house. They're all bad at paying rent, and Rosa has had enough. In order to make up for their late payments, they have to do tasks around the house. But in the dust and weeds they will find more than they expected... Today's story is House of Secrets. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Secrets4 fo...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Elisabeth, Steve and Xu all live together in Rosa's house. They're all bad at paying rent, and Rosa has had enough. In order to make up for their late payments, they have to do tasks around the house. But in the dust and weeds they will find more than they expected... Today's story is House of Secrets. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Secrets3 fo...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Elisabeth, Steve and Xu all live together in Rosa's house. They're all bad at paying rent, and Rosa has had enough. In order to make up for their late payments, they have to do tasks around the house. But in the dust and weeds they will find more than they expected... Today's story is House of Secrets. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Secrets2 fo...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Elisabeth, Steve and Xu all live together in Rosa's house. They're all bad at paying rent, and Rosa has had enough. In order to make up for their late payments, they have to do tasks around the house. But in the dust and weeds they will find more than they expected... Today's story is House of Secrets. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Secrets1 fo...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === There was once a little mermaid. When she became sixteen, she swam up to the human world. She met a prince and fell in love with him. She will do anything to become a human so that he can love her. But will love win in the end? Today's story is The Little Mermaid. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Little for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. G...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === The last question was asked many times. The first time was on the twenty-first of May, 2061. It was asked as a joke. This is how it happened. Today's story is The Last Question. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Question for the full transcript. Level: Pre-Intermediate. Genre: Science Fiction. Vocabulary: Data, Spaceship, Coal, Climate change, Mil...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === In this beautiful Chinese myth, a young man falls in love with a goddess. But not everything is perfect. Her mother wants her back in Heaven. Will they ever be reunited? Today's story is The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Cow for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Myths & Legends. Vocabulary: Weave, Cowher...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === Eklavya's father is a hunter, and he wants to be a hunter, too. He wants to learn from Dronacharya, the best teacher in the country. But it won't be easy. Today's story is The Teacher and the Student. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Teacher for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Myths & Legends. Vocabulary: Hunt, Bow and arrow, Keep a...

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === When the Spanish Inquisition has you, you will never escape. But death doesn't come easily. Today's story is The Pit and the Pendulum. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Pit for the full transcript. Level: Intermediate. Genre: Horror. Vocabulary: Pit, Pendulum, Slimy, Angle, Torture, Strap, Father Time. Setting: Medieval. Word Count: 2024. Author:...