Easy Stories in English

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Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at ⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support⁠. Your support is appreciated! Three goats live happily in a field eating grass. But one day, there's no more grass. They decide to cross a bridge to another field. But when they try to cross, a monster jumps out, and he wants to eat them! Go to ⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/ThreeGoats⁠ for the full transcript. Level: B...

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Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Your support is appreciated! Her mind runs, so she runs. She runs to stop her mind running. But one day, she sees an owl in the park, and reality stops running smoothly. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Running for the full transcript. Level: Pre-Intermediate. Genre: Philosophical. Vocabulary: Squirr...

Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Your support is appreciated! In the last week before moving to China, I recount awkward goodbyes, the British tradition of caterpillar-shaped cakes, my sneaky strategy to avoid jet lag, and my super secret language study hacks. Keep listening to learn English! Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Colin⁠...

Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Your support is appreciated! A horrible pirate called the Denschman terrorises a small Scottish island. But when a storm leaves the Denschman trapped in a cave, will the people of the island be cruel enough to leave him to die? Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Danish for the full transcript. Level: Begi...

Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Your support is appreciated! So I recently went to my cousin’s wedding in Edinburgh, which turned out to be much colder than expected, ESPECIALLY since I was camping! Fortunately, the beauty of the Quaker wedding ceremony more than made up for it. I couldn't stick around for long, though, as I had to whiz...

Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support⁠⁠⁠⁠. Your support is appreciated! Yes, that's right, I was kicked out of a public building... Not only that, I went to a wild party in Cambridge, and I'm setting the house on fire with incense. Sort of. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Kicked for the full transcript. Vocabulary: Hay fever, Incense, Ball (party...

Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support⁠⁠⁠⁠. Your support is appreciated! A monkey shares his figs with a shark, and for a while they are friends, but when the shark invites the monkey to his home under the sea, the monkey suspects that something may be wrong... Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Monkey⁠⁠⁠ for the full transcript. Level: Intermediate....