Basic user · CEFR A2
A2 — Elementary
Handle routine tasks, talk about your background and describe past events simply.
- Talk about your daily routine, studies and work in simple connected sentences
- Describe past events with the perfect tense
- Manage simple exchanges in shops, offices and on the phone
Lessons
Each lesson ends with practice questions on the same topic.
- Lesson 1
Talking about the past: the perfect tense
Perfekt
Spoken German uses the perfect tense for most past events: „haben“ or „sein“ + past participle.
30 min5 practice questions - Lesson 2
The dative case
Dativ
Indirect objects, dative verbs and dative prepositions.
30 min4 practice questions - Lesson 3
Two-way prepositions: where or where to?
Wechselpräpositionen
in, an, auf, über, unter, vor, hinter, neben and zwischen take the accusative for movement and the dative for location.
25 min4 practice questions - Lesson 4
Subordinate clauses with weil, dass, wenn and ob
Nebensätze
In a subordinate clause the conjugated verb goes to the end.
25 min3 practice questions - Lesson 5
Comparing things: comparative and superlative
Komparativ und Superlativ
größer, am größten — and the difference between „als“ and „wie“.
20 min3 practice questions
Practice by skill
30 original questions at A2.
Listening
Original recordings for this level.
- A2
Ein Zimmer in der Lindenstraße
A room on Lindenstraße
- A2
Durchsagen am Bahnhof
Announcements at the station
Writing and speaking
About levels
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