A2PopularFrench by level
Free French courses, level A2 (Elementary)
You handle simple, routine exchanges: shopping, appointments, work, your past and your plans, and you understand short messages and announcements.
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What you can do at A2
You handle simple, routine exchanges: shopping, appointments, work, your past and your plans, and you understand short messages and announcements.
At A2, you learn the past tenses, object pronouns, the near future and the language of practical life.
Exam lessons at level A2
Each levelled course (TCF, TEF) has one full lesson per level.
- A2
From the course · TCF Canada Listening: A1 to C2
A2 · Messages, announcements and changes of plan
Understand voicemails and announcements, and catch what has changed: a new time, a new place, a cancellation.
- A2
From the course · TCF Canada Reading: A1 to C2
A2 · Emails, ads and instructions
Read short personal emails, classified ads and instructions, and understand their purpose.
- A2
From the course · TCF Canada Writing: A1 to C2
A2 · Messages: invite, reply, ask
Write the short message of task 1: invite, accept or refuse, ask for information, with the right register.
- A2
From the course · TCF Canada Speaking: A1 to C2
A2 · Talk about your daily life and your past
Develop task 1: describe your routine, your home, your last holiday, and give simple reasons.
- A2
From the course · TCF Canada Grammar & Vocabulary: A1 to C2
A2 · Past tenses and object pronouns
Use the passé composé and the imparfait, and replace nouns with le, la, lui, leur.
- A2
From the course · TEF Canada & TEFAQ Listening: A1 to C2
A2 · Public announcements and instructions
Understand announcements in transport, shops and public services, and instructions at work.
- A2
From the course · TEF Canada Reading: A1 to C2
A2 · Ads, schedules and simple letters
Read job and housing ads, schedules and simple letters from services.
- A2
From the course · TEF Canada Writing: A1 to C2
A2 · Simple emails: request and inform
Write short emails to a service or an employer: request information, inform of a problem, confirm.
- A2
From the course · TEF Canada & TEFAQ Speaking: A1 to C2
A2 · Ask for practical information
Ask about schedules, prices, conditions and how to register, and understand the answers.
- A2
From the course · TEF Canada Grammar & Vocabulary: A1 to C2
A2 · Time markers and the future
Use depuis, il y a, pendant, dans correctly, and talk about the future with aller + infinitive and the futur simple.
Courses at level A2
- A2Popular
A1 → A2PopularBeginner French
Jobs & Work
Name jobs, talk about your work and take your first steps in a job search.
A2Beginner French
Feelings & Personality
Say how you feel, describe someone’s character and paint a short portrait.
A2Beginner French
Phone, Appointments & Services
Make phone calls, book appointments and deal with the bank and the post office.
A2
A2Popular
A1 → A2French Grammar
Negation: ne… pas, jamais, rien
Say no correctly, from ne… pas to personne, in the present and the past.
A2PopularFrench Grammar
Object Pronouns: le, lui, y, en
Stop repeating nouns: replace them with le, la, les, lui, leur, y and en.
A2 → B1French Grammar
Reflexive Verbs
Se lever, s’habiller, s’entendre: in the present, the past and their special meanings.
A2 → B1French Grammar
Adjectives & Comparison
Place adjectives, compare with plus, moins, aussi, and say the best.
A1 → A2PopularFrench Grammar
The 50 Essential Verbs
The verbs you need every day, grouped by families, with their present tense.
A2PopularSpelling
Homophones: a / à, et / est, son / sont…
The words that sound the same but are written differently.
A2
A2Spelling
Silent Letters
Write the letters you do not hear: final consonants, h, feminine e and plural s.
A2 → B1Popular
A2Spelling
Capitals & Punctuation
French capitals, spaces before ! and ?, quotation marks, apostrophes and hyphens.
A2
A2 → B1PopularListening
The Old Québec Mystery: a Detective Story
A painting vanishes. Listen to the witnesses, catch the lies and find the thief.
A2 → B1PopularListening
French on the Phone
Calls you only hear, as in real life: answer, spell, book, leave a message.
A1 → B1PopularReading
Reading Real Life: Signs, Menus, Letters
The documents of daily life, laid out like the real thing.
A2Pronunciation
Liaison, Rhythm & Intonation
Link words like a native and give your sentences the right melody.
A2
A2 → B1PopularConversation
Settling in Canada: Housing, Papers, Health
The French of your first weeks: lease, health card, school and daycare.
A2 → B1Conversation
French–English False Friends
Actuellement, librairie, excité: the words that do not mean what you think.
A2 → B1PopularConversation
Your Child’s School in French
Enrolment, school messages, a call from the school and the parent-teacher meeting.
A2DELF & DALF
DELF A2: Pass the 4 Papers
Format, marking and practice for listening, reading, writing and speaking.
A2 → B1PopularBusiness French
French for Customer Service
Welcome, help, handle a complaint, the phone and the checkout.