Elementary
Expand your range
Move beyond survival phrases. You will start talking about the past, express preferences, give directions, and hold short conversations on familiar topics like shopping, travel, and health.
What you'll achieve at A2
Speaking
Describe your past experiences, make plans, give directions, and have short conversations on familiar topics.
Listening
Follow the main points of short, clear announcements and conversations about daily life.
Reading
Understand short personal letters, simple stories, and everyday texts like timetables and adverts.
Writing
Write short paragraphs about your experiences, simple personal letters, and notes.
Chapters
Work through these in order, or jump to a topic you need.
Irregular Present Tense Verbs
Key irregulars (tener, ir, hacer, poder, querer, saber, conocer) and stem-changing verbs.
Reflexive Verbs & Daily Routines
Reflexive pronouns, common reflexive verbs (levantarse, ducharse, acostarse), describing your day.
The Preterite Tense (Regular)
Talking about completed past actions with regular -ar, -er, -ir preterite conjugations.
The Preterite Tense (Irregular)
High-frequency irregular preterites: ir/ser, hacer, tener, estar, poder, and more.
The Imperfect Tense
Describing habitual past actions, backgrounds, and ongoing states with the imperfect.
Preterite vs. Imperfect
When to use each past tense, with contextual examples and storytelling practice.
Shopping & Money
Clothes, sizes, prices, and transactional language for shops and markets.
Directions & Getting Around
Giving and understanding directions, transport vocabulary, buying tickets.
Comparatives & Superlatives
Comparing things (más … que, menos … que, tan … como), irregular comparatives (mejor, peor).
Health, Body & Emergencies
Body parts, describing symptoms, visiting a doctor or pharmacy, and emergency phrases.
Practice
Review vocabulary from this level with flash cards. Words you're struggling with appear first.