#a2 level spanish

[foreign-languages]

Spanish Language Levels – A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2

There are six levels of Spanish: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) outlines these levels. Spanish language exam levels indicate different stages of proficiency, from basic knowledge to complete mastery.

[shiraishi--kanade]

An. An, beloved, why are you struggling with 珍 of all things. An that is N2 level kanji. An please

[moomin279]

ich mache meine deutschpraxis während ich Alkohol trinke, weil es meine Aussprache verbessert

[nco05]

La evolución de 11 meses

Izq: febrero 2023 (Aprender A2)- Der: enero 2024 (Aprender B1)

Disculpe para el estado del papel izquierdo 🤭

[mosviqu]

accidentally bought the penguin readers ver of the great gatsby instead of the original and i feel like my braincells are slowly evaporating as i read it

[kraceos]

ALSO my favorite moments during classes are those where i'm supposed to say something in chinese but i'm so tired and confused my brain supplies spanish instead so i'm left with shit like 我是muy cansada

[amehlee]

Today i learned that I simultaneously understand and don't understand more Spanish than I thought I would. It's weird.

[spanishskulduggery]

How can I start learning Spanish?

If you are an absolute total beginner, my biggest recommendation is to check out www.studyspanish.com/grammar and to check out www.conjuguemos.com which are online grammar lessons

Truly what I've found is you start with the fundamentals and you just go through your language learning journey accumulating knowledge, and it always feels like an uphill battle until one day you're aware of all the things you don't know/understand yet, but you also know how to look up what you don't know - and that's how you know you've made it

I personally find that when you're starting Spanish from nothing you need to focus on conjugations and the most essential verbs; most verbs are regular so when you understand the basic rules for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs you can do a lot in Spanish

The most irregular verbs of all time - which tend to be irregular in multiple tenses

ser

ir

ver

dar

estar

tener

venir

decir

querer

poder

poner

hacer

caber*

haber

*caber is annoyingly irregular but not the most super common verb used; it's "to fit (into a space)" like "capacity" so it's useful when you need it, but otherwise more limited

The are other little bits of grammar knowledge that you'll learn as you go, like when to use saber vs conocer, or ser and estar... things that take practice and repetition but let me know if there are any questions you have as you go and I can help give some more insight

There are other things that are important, but less all consuming, like stem-changing verbs [E->I, E->IE, O->UE] or certain irregularities, and exceptions like conocer or little things like fingir or vencer - which are littler things though more easily understood when you have some more experience

You're also going to want to devote a lot of time to the present tense which is the very first tense you're introduced to

Also - Things You Should Know At Each Level - though for your purposes I'd say you're probably A1 and A2 and try not to focus on the rest for now; you'll get discouraged if you think of all the things you don't know, trust me I was there

Additional resources:

Recommendations for beginners

https://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/ats/

Word Reference Conjugator

http://spanishskulduggery.tumblr.com/post/102019421622/spanishskulduggery-spanish-tenses-moods

https://conjuguemos.com/activities/spanish/verb/1

https://conjuguemos.com/tenses/spanish/

Verbs you should know as a beginner

[ros3ybabeslanguages]

Language Resources 🎀

*that I currently use for studying Spanish. When I pick up studying Japanese again, I will make a list for that as well <3 I currently use a handful of resources for learning Spanish, and they've all proven very useful so far!

🩷 My Current Resources for Spanish

Busuu - hands down my favorite language learning app. So much better than Duolingo, in my opinion (especially for languages with a different alphabet/writing system). I bought the premium for a year, which will expire in Septmeber, but I'm debating renewing again because I love it so much.

LingQ - I like using this for reading in Spanish. It gives me different types of things to read about, and while I don't have premium, I do put all the words I don't know into flashcards on AnkiApp on my laptop and translate anything I don't know using SpanishDict.

SpanishDict - favorite translation/dictionary app. I know it has lessons you can use, tho I haven't tried it yet, but I really do love this app. It's super helpful when I'm making flashcards or writing random vocabulary notes.

Goodnotes - This is a general note-taking app, but I love it because it allows you to import and write on PDFs, and that's just perfect for me! I've downloaded free PDF short stories/children's stories in Spanish and made notes of words I don't know, and taken notes in the app too. Definitely my favorite notes app, ever.

Italki - I know this is a website, too, but I use the app. It lets you work with professional teachers/community tutors in your target language. You can have structured lessons or just use it for conversation practice. I did a trial lesson not too long ago and have an upcoming lesson booked out in about 5 days. You pay per lesson, so there is no subscription, and there are so many languages and teachers/tutors to choose from. I did a lot of research before choosing a teacher, and I'm very happy with my decision so far. Definitely useful if there's not native speakers near you or you're like me and not confident talking to people you know in your target language/their native language.

Quizlet/AnkiApp - I use AnkiApp more then quizlet, and the Anki I'm referring to is NOT the same way everyone else uses, but it's the flashcard app of preference at the moment. I tried the AnkiDroid app and hated it. But yeah, AnkiApp is useful for flashcards and I really like it. I have it on my Chromebook and my Ipad.

Netflix - I love watching shows in Spanish on Netflix so much. I am currently watching La Reina del Sur on it (used to watch that sporadically in the past at a friend's house) and plan on watching some other shows, including Elite.

Spotify - I enjoy listening to Spanish music and podcasts right now. The music is more of an entertaining/enjoyable fork of audio input, and the podcasts help me get a feel for speaking and pronunciation and I choose podcasts that speak on topics of interest tk help with vocabulary in those areas I'd like to be able to speak about.

Textbooks - I have 2 PDF textbooks, Gramatica de Uso del Español: A1-B2 and Gramatica de Uso del Español: B1-B2. I've heard these are great for learning Spanish (and they're both only written in Spanish, like there's no English in them) and plan on using them once I figure out how to take good and useful textbook notes! I definitely need to improve on my grammar.

Those are all my current Spanish resources! I'd definitely say my current level is like a high A1 right now, nearing A2, but I have just a little bit of work to do before I get there. These resources are definitely gonna help, tho!

[vibinwiththefrogs]

How I'm studying Spanish after a long break

It's always hard getting back into a language that you know the basics in, because beginner materials are too easy and intermediate materials might be too advanced. After trying and failing multiple times to stick with Spanish again, I think I finally have a good system?

So for formal studying I'm using Mango Languages, but not actually taking the lessons. I find that I know about half the material in their unit 2, and it gets very repetitive and boring to go through the actual lessons, but I still want to cover what I don't know. So I've been making flashcards with the given vocab, studying the vocab, and then when I've reviewed it all I only go through the listening, reading, and recap given at the end of each chapter. So I've been able to learn more level-appropriate vocab in a structured way without the slog of going over things I know over and over. This has been about 1/3 of my time.

The other 2/3 of my time I've just been doing immersion. For listening I've been bouncing between watching the Spanish dub of Death Note, and watching Let's Plays on Youtube (specifically, I've been watching one for FNAF Security Breach and one for Disco Elysium). For reading I've been reading the Spanish translation of the webtoon Ring My Bell. For listening I don't usually take notes and I just focus on listening intently, but for reading I'll write down phrases and words that repeat or feel important.

I'm not quite sure if I can see clear progress yet because I've only been doing this for about 2 weeks. I still struggle a lot with understanding verb tense/conjugation, but I found drilling it isn't helpful to me in the past. But I feel like my listening comprehension has improved in the past two weeks. I feel like I can follow Death Note and streams and understand about 50% of what is said (and the rest from context), and I'm starting to be able to pick out individual words more clearly if I don't understand something.

The important thing about his routine though is that I haven't felt like things are too easy, and I also haven't felt bogged down by things being too difficult. I'm probably at a A2 level right now, and I'm hoping to be a solid B1 and generally conversational by the end of August. So I'm going to keep up this routine and see where it gets me.

[totally-sapphic-posts]

What languages do you speak?

Fluent: English, Afrikaans, German, French

Rusty, but can still understand fully: Hebrew, Dutch

Currently learning: Spanish (A2 level), Russian (A1 level equivalent), isiZulu

Done the basics and can understand written: Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Italian

Only know a not well-known dialect: Arabic

[dissociationstudystation]

Welcome to My Studyblr

☕️About Me☕️

♥︎ Name: Riley

♥︎ Pronouns: they/it

♥︎ Age: 21

♥︎ Nationality: American

♥︎ Living in: Germany

♥︎ Personality Type: INFP-T

♥︎ Languages: I only speak English :(

♥︎ Hobbies: Reading, songwriting, crochet, and hiking

♥︎ Neurodivergency: Autism, ADHD, OCD

I am also a DID system, hence my user, though I likely won't discuss that much here

☕️Languages I Want to Learn/Am Learning☕️

I am at varying levels for each

♥︎ German

♥︎ Korean

♥︎ Spanish

♥︎ French

♥︎ Russian

☕️What I Am Studying☕️

♥︎ Major: Psychology

♥︎ Self-Study: Korean and French

♥︎ Extracurriculars: German

☕️Goals☕️

♥︎ End the school year with a 3.5 GPA

♥︎ Reach B2 in German by June

♥︎ Reach A2 in French and/or Korean

♥︎ Start learning Russian again

☕️Why I Made This Blog☕️

♥︎ To stay motivated

♥︎ To find fellow academics

♥︎ To inspire others

♥︎ To keep track of life

Thank you for reading this far and hopefully following my blog. I am looking forward to a new chapter in my life as me and my partner moved to Germany in August

[doitinanotherlanguage]

2024 Mid-Year Language Learning Recap

中文 / Mandarin Chinese

🎉 Goals reached so far: I got back to studying Chinese! I reviewed New Practical Chinese Reader 1 and 2. Now, I'm starting on the third book in the series. 🎯 Further goals for the rest of the year: My primary goal is to reach A2(/B1) level in Chinese (~HSK3). To do that, I'm planning to finish New Practical Chinese Reader 3, and start on New Practical Chinese Reader 4 (hopefully, I'll be able to complete that one entirely too this year).

Español / Spanish

🎉 Goals reached so far: I did a lot of revision for Spanish in 2023, so for the first half of this year I've basically just been chilling when it comes to Spanish, not doing much active studying (just watching youtube and movies). 🎯 Further goals for the rest of the year: Continue to keep up my Spanish level (~B1) with Spanish readers (Better Reading Spanish and Read & Think Spanish).

Français / French

🎉 Goals reached so far: I basically spent the entire spring in revising my French, because I had a short trip to Paris (!!!) in May. I revised all my study materials from A1 to A2/B1 in preparation. 🎯 Further goals for the rest of the year: Right now, I feel like I'm somewhere around the A2 level maybe - my speaking is only so-so, but my reading is very good (probably my English and Spanish help a lot!). For the rest of the year, I just want to concentrate on upkeep because the spring revision was quite intense. So, I'm predicting a lot of French movies and youtube in my near future lol.

ภาษาไทย / Thai

🎉 Goals reached so far: I just started learning Thai in late spring this year! So far, I've learned to read and write, and I'm now starting on the basics. 🎯 Further goals for the rest of the year: Attain the A1 level by completing Easy Thai. Although, honestly, I'm learning Thai just for fun right now, so I'm mostly studying it this year when/if I have the time.

한국어 / Korean

🎉 Goals reached so far: I revised my A1(/A2) materials. I haven't really touched Korean in a while, so I'm really looking forward to getting back to it! 🎯 Further goals for the rest of the year: I want to finally finish Continuing Korean so badly! I've been picking it up and putting it down for several years now, and I really need to just stick with it for once and just get it done. So, if I have the time this year, that's my goal for Korean.

English

🎉 Goals reached so far: I haven't really been actively studying English for years now, so I didn't have any goals for English this year. Although, I do now have a job where I get to use English from time to time and that's fun. 🎯 Further goals for the rest of the year: Basically, just keep getting better at using English at my job (e.g. there's a lot of specific vocab related to the field, and sometimes calls with English-speaking clients are a bit of a mess because neither of us knows the right words in English lmao). I also really want to get better at "Simple English/Plain English". Because a lot of my clients are immigrants and our only common language is English (which is a second language to both of us), I'd like to be able to speak more clearly and understandably.

Svenska / Swedish

🎉 Goals reached so far: I did a bit of Swedish revision in the beginning of this year (for job purposes) but I'm really lacking in motivation for Swedish... I need to use Swedish a little bit in my job so I'm trying to let that push me a bit to try to do at least something related to Swedish sometimes, but it really is hard when I just don't feel like it at all. 🎯 Further goals for the rest of the year: I guess my biggest goal is to find motivation for learning Swedish. It's never been a language I've been interested to learn for it's own sake (it was an obligatory subject at school), but it's useful for job prospects so... I'd really like to be able to use it more fluently because I've learnt it for so many years. I just need to get myself more hyped to be learning Swedish.

[in--other--words]

Top 3 Free German Resources

Week 3, day 5 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge

(Probably goes without saying but just my personal top 3! You'll notice it is quite listening focused because that is what's most important to me.)

Nicos Weg (A1, A2, B1, Complete Youtube Playlist) - the story of a Spanish guy called Nico who moves to Germany. Really nice and well produced. Each level is made up of 80ish videos of a couple of minutes each, with exercises to review and test your comprehension. This adds up to a movie of almost 2 hrs for each level.

Easy German (x) - street interviews in German. Great for learning how Germans actually speak, outside of the artificial context that you find in a lot of learning resources.

The German Project (x) - online lessons with audio snippets and easy to understand explanations, plus animated short stories with audio. Wish there were some exercises to go with it! Also available for Spanish, French and Italian.

[subtitlesaddict]

Hey! /Hola!/ Salut!/ Ahoj!

I'll keep it in English the majority of the time because it's the Internet's language but, hey, you can call me Birdie, I'm a Spanish College Student, I'm studying French and English Translation (focusing on French) and I'm a big language nerd ^^

So far, this is what I'm working with:

Spanish (native)

English (C2 level aka fluent)

French (C1 level aka almost there)

Spanish Sign Language aka LSE (A2 level)

Czech (A1 level)

Japanese (N5 level or lower tbh)

Swahili (Just started learning the other day tbh)

I want to use this blog to track my language learning progress and practice a bit, so we'll see how this goes, friends.

[marisbuzi]

spanish checklist for a1 (and slightly a2) level: vocab, grammar etc.

hey!

i have completed covering the a1 level of spanish (and also covered 1/4? or less maybe of a2) so here is a checklist with everything i learnt.

note: at the end of the post there's a link with a google doc where every item on the list is expanded as well as i could expand it (for example, you'll find examples for conjugation etc). if you need to track your progress, please make a copy of it (you won't have access to edit it otherwise).

Greetings and basic introductions.

Personal pronouns (yo, tú, él/ella, nosotros/nosotras, vosotros/vosotras, ellos/ellas) and verb conjugation in the present tense.

Basic vocabulary related to daily activities, family, numbers, colors, food, and common objects.

Describing people, places, and objects using adjectives.

Forming questions with question words (¿qué, quién, dónde, cuándo, cómo, etc.) and question formation.

Demonstrative adjectives (este, ese, aquel) and possessive adjectives (mi, tu, su, nuestro, vuestro, su).

Basic verbs and expressions for expressing likes, dislikes, preferences, and opinions.

Telling time and talking about daily routines.

Talking about hobbies, interests, and free time activities.

Basic vocabulary for locations, directions, and giving and following simple instructions.

Regular and irregular verbs in the present tense, including stem-changing verbs.

Basic prepositions (en, con, de, a, por, para) and their usage.

Formation and usage of the present progressive tense (estar + gerund).

Talking about the weather and seasons.

Expressing frequency using adverbs (siempre, a veces, nunca, etc.).

Basic vocabulary for professions, places in the city, and transportation.

Describing daily routines and activities in the past using the preterite tense (preterito indefinido).

Usage of preterito imperfecto.

Usage of preterito perfecto.

Basic vocabulary for shopping, clothing, and describing items.

Expressing obligation, ability, and necessity using modal verbs (deber, poder, necesitar).

Comparatives and superlatives (más/menos + adjective, el/la/los/las más/menos + adjective).

Talking about future plans using the future tense (ir + a + infinitive).

Basic vocabulary and expressions for traveling and making hotel reservations.

Giving and asking for directions using prepositions of location (a la derecha, a la izquierda, enfrente, etc.).

Basic vocabulary and phrases for ordering food and drinks in a restaurant.

Introduction to indirect object pronouns (me, te, le, nos, os, les) and their usage.

Indirect and Direct objects

here is the link (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WaB3cIyMbnG5uJneX7dF9PAKfU-CTdicr-QZJBqWKls/edit?usp=sharing)

did it help you? i made it for my revision before i begin classes this september and so far it has helped me a lot so i hope it turns out just as useful for you!

adiós, mar <3