Spanish books at A2 level

What A2 means, in numbers

22 lessons

Lesson 21 to lesson 42, all free.

5,089 words

Of A2 Spanish to read straight through, the story alone.

231 words a lesson

From 149 to 362. About eight minutes of reading each.

4 review units

One every five lessons, going back over the level.

The Spanish itself

• The preterite and the imperfect, and the daily business of choosing between them.
• The future and the conditional, both regular.
• Two pronouns in one sentence, se me cayó, and por against para.
• Sentences that join up with porque, cuando and aunque, so a paragraph holds together instead of being a list.

A2 is the level publishers stretch. A book that says A2 and opens with a subjunctive is a B1 book with an A2 sticker on it. Read the sample before you buy anything, here or anywhere else.

The 22 free lessons at A2

All free, with no sign-up. Each one is a chapter of Don Quixote rewritten at A2, with 4 review units among them.

• The morning of the windmillsLesson 21The regular preterite
• The Basque squireLesson 22Irregular preterite: ser, ir, estar, tener, hacer
• The speech on the Golden AgeLesson 23The imperfect: the world as it used to be
• Antonio’s songLesson 24Preterite and imperfect: background and action
• The student who died of loveLesson 25Telling a story: preterite and imperfect
• Marcela defends herselfLesson 26Ya, todavía, aún and acabar de
• The YanguesansLesson 27The accidental se: se me cayó
• The inn by night: MaritornesLesson 28Possessives: the weak set and the strong set
• That enchanted castleLesson 29Demonstratives: este, ese, aquel
• The balm and the blanketLesson 30The body and the verb doler
• What you pay for at an innLesson 31Impersonal se and the reflexive passive
• The two armies of sheepLesson 32The simple future
• The dead body and the Knight of the Sorrowful FaceLesson 33The simple conditional
• The scholar who came from BaezaLesson 34Relatives: que, donde, quien
• The night of the fulling hammersLesson 35Adverbs in -mente
• Mambrino’s helmetLesson 36Por and para
• The king’s prisonersLesson 37The present perfect
• Ginés de Pasamonte and the stonesLesson 38Two pronouns together
• The suitcase in Sierra MorenaLesson 39Describing a place, and estar plus a participle
• Cardenio’s storyLesson 40Reporting what someone else said
• The letter to DulcineaLesson 41Writing a letter: tú and usted on paper
• Sancho leaves and Don Quixote is left aloneLesson 42The whole of A2 on one page: lessons 21 to 41