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A2 German reading practice · Lesen

Longer everyday stories — a new coat, the first day in a new city, a locked door, the lost-property office. This is the shelf where adjective endings start doing real work, so the questions come back to them again and again.

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1mir oder mich?Drill the difference between mich and mir in one short story — including the six verbs that always take the dative: helfen, danken, gehören, gefallen, passen and antworten.~6 min
2Wechselpräpositionen: wohin oder wo?Drill the nine two-way prepositions — in, auf, an, über, unter, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen — with the one question that decides the case: wohin (movement, accusative) or wo (position, dative)?~7 min
3Der erste Tag im neuen JobDeniz starts a new job — and immediately owes the team a cake.~6 min
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The German perfect tense (haben & sein)Separable verbs in German (aufstehen, einkaufen…)Word order after weil, dass and wenn (verb to the end)German adjective endings

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Nebensätze: das Verb ans EndeDrill weil, dass and wenn in one short story — where the verb lands, why denn behaves differently, and what happens to a modal verb inside a subordinate clause.

~6 min

5Perfekt: haben oder sein?Drill the German perfect tense — when the helper is haben and when it is sein, including movement verbs, changes of state, and the schlafen/einschlafen pair that catches everyone.~7 min

6Wer bekommt den Schlüssel? Sign inA family moves in — and every article in the story is doing a different job.~6 min

7Der neue Nachbar Sign inSomeone moves in upstairs — and brings cake.~6 min

8Ein Wochenende in BerlinRead a German travel diary about a weekend in Berlin — sightseeing and food, with A2 perfect tense and prepositions.~6 min

9Die neue Wohnung Sign inA German text about moving into a new flat — rooms, furniture and neighbours — for A2 reading with dative prepositions.~6 min

10Der Umzug Sign inA new flat, helpful friends, and one box that goes missing.~6 min

11Ein Tag ohne Handy Sign inLena tries a whole day without her phone — and finds something.~6 min

12Der Sprachkurs in Wien Sign inFour weeks of German abroad — hard at first, hard to leave.~6 min

13Der erste Tag in der neuen Stadt Sign inAn A2 reading set built to drill the always-dative prepositions — mit, nach, aus, bei, seit, von, zu — against the two-way prepositions that only sometimes take the dative.~5 min

14Im Fundbüro Sign inA2 reading practice: Sofia leaves her rucksack on the tram, and gets back more than she lost.~6 min

15Ausgesperrt Sign inA2 reading practice: two minutes to take out the bin, and Tobias is standing in the stairwell in slippers.~6 min

16Die Waschküche Sign inA2 reading practice: one washing machine, six flats and a note on the lid — a small block-of-flats conflict.~6 min

17Die Mitfahrgelegenheit Sign inA2 reading practice: four silent hours in a stranger's car to Leipzig — until the radio dies.~6 min

18Die Kaffeekasse Sign inA2 reading practice: the office coffee tin is short of money, and nobody wants to ask the obvious question.~6 min

19Der Flohmarkt Sign inA2 reading practice: a Saturday selling grandmother's lamps at the flea market — and one that stays.~6 min

20Zwischen acht und vier Sign inA2 reading practice: Miriam takes a whole day off work to wait for a technician who needs ten minutes.~6 min

21Der erste Abend im Verein Sign inA2 reading practice: a notice in the supermarket, two weeks of nerves, and a volleyball to the face.~6 min

22Die zweite Fahrprüfung Sign inA2 reading practice: Deniz fails his driving test, stops driving for three weeks, and tries again.~7 min

23Ein Termin beim Bürgeramt Sign inA2 reading practice: Yusuf waits three weeks for an appointment, then forgets one piece of paper.~7 min

24Der neue Mantel Sign inAn A2 reading set built to drill adjective endings — after der, after ein, with no article at all, and the one place an adjective takes no ending whatsoever.~6 min

25Der Montagmorgen von Frau Adler Sign inAn A2 reading set built to drill time expressions — am, im, um or nothing at all, and the rule that keeps the verb in second place when the time comes first.~5 min