Decks
A2 Writing Templates

Learn simple patterns for the short messages common in a CEFR A2 writing exam. Practice choosing the right register, covering each task point, and checking your work.

Adjectives & Comparisons

Describe people and things, then make simple everyday comparisons.

Air Travel

Practice checking in, managing baggage, passing security, boarding, and completing the key steps of an ordinary flight.

Apologizing & Thanking

Everyday Standard German for small mistakes, considerate responses, and different levels of thanks. Notes distinguish informal and formal forms where needed.

Appointments & Plans

Learn the practical phrases needed to suggest an activity, agree on the details, check that a plan still works, and politely change or cancel it.

Asking for Clarification

Useful spoken phrases for repairing misunderstandings and checking details in everyday German. Formal Sie and informal du forms are marked through the examples.

Asking for Directions

Learn how to ask where a destination is, understand a simple route, use landmarks and distance clues, find entrances and exits, and politely clarify directions you did not understand.

At the Doctor

Learn the practical German needed to make and check in for an appointment, describe common symptoms, answer basic questions, follow examination instructions, and understand simple next steps. The examples teach language only and are not medical advice.

At the Pharmacy

Learn practical German for filling a prescription, choosing pharmacy products, and checking how to use them safely. The deck encourages learners to follow the label and ask a pharmacist when unsure.

Banking

Practical German for everyday banking at a branch, online, or at an ATM.

Buying Tickets

Practice the language needed at ticket counters and machines: choosing a fare, stating travel details, selecting useful options, paying, and checking validity.

Cafés & Bakeries

Practice the short, polite German used at a counter or café table: choosing baked goods, specifying drinks, eating in or taking away, and paying.

Cases in Everyday German

Choose useful article forms in common shopping, travel, and social phrases.

Clothing Shopping

Practical German for choosing clothes, checking fit and color, and asking shop staff for help.

Common Exam Vocabulary

High-value vocabulary for navigating the exam itself: task parts, instructions, timing, oral roles, choices, notes, and scoring. The deck teaches what to do with these words, not reading or listening clue words.

Common Prepositions

Connect everyday places, times, people, and directions with short phrases.

Common Question Patterns

Reusable question frames for candidate conversations and examiner follow-ups. Each pattern helps learners ask for one clear piece of information and recognize the kind of answer required.

Connectors & Linking Words

Productive linking tools for oral exam answers and partner tasks. Learners join short ideas, add reasons and examples, contrast options, organize a response, and conclude without turning the deck into a grammar lecture.

Conversation Fillers

High-frequency Standard German signals for thinking, reacting, taking a turn, and showing that you are listening. These are conversation tools, not slang or full opinion phrases.

Cooking

Learn the verbs, sequence words, measurements, and doneness language needed to prepare an everyday meal from a short German recipe.

Customer Service

Practical German for getting help from a company by phone, chat, email, or at a service desk.

Cycling & Walking

Practice renting and checking a bicycle, understanding pedestrian and cycling spaces, following basic safety rules, and describing route conditions.

Daily Conversations

Build the practical conversation skills needed to greet people, introduce yourself, make friendly small talk, and ask or answer common everyday questions in neutral Standard German.

Daily Routine Verbs

Practice practical A2 verbs for mornings, getting ready, commuting, meals, chores, evenings, and bedtime.

Dating & Relationships

Learn respectful A2 language for showing interest, arranging a date, defining a relationship, checking consent, and setting boundaries. Examples are gender-neutral where possible and make clear that either person may say no or change their mind.

Describing People

Learn neutral A2 language for identifying and describing people by height, build, hair, clothing, and visible features. Descriptions are factual rather than judgmental and avoid assumptions about identity or character.

Dietary Preferences

Learn clear, polite A2 German for saying what you eat or avoid, asking about ingredients, and requesting simple changes to a meal.

Driving & Car Rental

Practice choosing and collecting a rental car, checking its condition and contract, refueling, parking, and responding to common road situations.

Electronics Shopping

Practical German for choosing everyday electronics and understanding basic product information in a store.

Email Basics

Core elements and phrases for short personal or everyday service emails: subject lines, greetings, attachments, replies, and closings. It teaches email building blocks rather than long writing templates.

Emergencies

Learn German for contacting emergency services, stating a location, and following communication instructions. The deck focuses on seeking trained help and sharing facts, not providing medical treatment.

Everyday Objects

Learn the names and practical phrases for common portable objects so you can ask where something is, request to borrow it, and explain a simple problem.

Exams & Studying

Learn practical language for preparing, revising, asking about tasks, and following simple written and spoken exam instructions.

Family

Build the practical German needed to describe close and extended family without assuming one family structure. Learn useful family nouns with articles and plurals, common relationship-status words, and neutral everyday questions about children, ages, relatives, and who lives together.

Feelings & Emotions

Use clear A2 expressions for common emotions, their causes, and supportive responses. The deck encourages speaking from personal experience, asking rather than assuming, and respecting when someone does not want to talk.

Finding Your Way

Build a mental map of a town using landmarks, map symbols, relative position, and route features rather than memorizing direction questions.

Friends

Build practical language for introducing friends, staying in touch, making plans, offering support, and setting friendly boundaries. The examples use du for established friendships and point out when neutral wording avoids romantic ambiguity.

Fruits & Vegetables

Learn high-frequency produce words used in meals, recipes, markets, and everyday conversations, with useful forms and simple descriptions.

German Flirting Words

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German Food & Meals

Recognize everyday meal patterns and common foods seen on menus or served at home, focusing on useful choices and expectations rather than food trivia.

German Shopping Words

Discover the essentials of German shopping vocabulary with this comprehensive flash card deck designed specifically for A2 level students. With this resource, you’ll explore over 24 vital German words commonly used in shopping contexts, such as ‘Einkaufswagen’ (Shopping Cart), ‘Rabatt’ (Discount), ‘

Giving Simple Opinions

Short A2 phrases for sharing what you think and responding respectfully to other views. The examples work in everyday conversations without advanced debate language.

Government Offices

Match common government offices with their services and use polite A2 German during a visit, without focusing on form-filling.

Grocery Shopping

Complete a supermarket or market trip in polite, everyday German. Learn to find products, handle carts and baskets, understand packaging and prices, weigh produce, and manage common checkout and payment interactions.

Grocery Vocabulary

Build a practical core of German product vocabulary for understanding labels, lists, and store sections without repeating the tasks of a grocery-shopping conversation.

Healthy Living

Learn everyday German for movement, meals, sleep, rest, and realistic routines. These expressions support general well-being and do not make medical claims.

Hobbies

Talk naturally about what you enjoy doing in your free time, how often you do it, and whether you want to join an activity. The focus is social conversation, not specialist hobby vocabulary.

Holidays & Celebrations

Learn inclusive, practical language for birthdays, public holidays, personal celebrations, and differing traditions. Examples do not assume that everyone celebrates the same occasions or in the same way.

Hotels & Accommodation

Practice choosing a room, confirming a reservation, checking in and out, and making ordinary requests during a hotel or guesthouse stay.

Household Appliances

Everyday German for identifying appliances, understanding controls, choosing settings, and handling simple operating problems.

Household Chores

Useful German for dividing chores, cleaning efficiently, and describing routine household work.

Injuries & Recovery

Learn German for describing how an injury happened, understanding recovery arrangements, and asking practical follow-up questions. Follow instructions from qualified professionals rather than using this deck as treatment advice.

Interviews

Practice polite introductions, common interview questions, short A2 answers, and useful questions to ask about the role.

Invitations

Practice spoken invitations for casual and polite situations, accepting or declining clearly, and confirming practical details. These are conversation skills rather than written invitation templates.

Job Applications

Learn the essential A2 language for reading a basic job ad, gathering documents, and sending a short, polite application.

Jobs & Occupations

Learn common occupation names and short phrases for saying where someone works or what they do. The focus is everyday conversation, not specialist careers.

Kitchen Vocabulary

Build the object vocabulary needed to find, use, put away, and talk about everyday equipment in a German-speaking kitchen.

Libraries & Museums

Learn practical language for membership, borrowing, exhibitions, tickets, and visitor services in libraries and museums.

Listening Signal Words

Train your ear to catch small German words and patterns that often carry the answer in A2 listening tasks. Each signal comes with a tiny spoken example so you can recognize what information to listen for next.

Medical Forms & Insurance

Learn common German on registration forms, insurance cards, invoices, and reimbursement requests. The deck focuses on practical administration rather than symptoms or medical consultations.

Meetings & Scheduling

Practice the phrases used to set, confirm, move, and join a basic work meeting. The focus is workplace coordination rather than personal plans.

Mental Well-being

Learn respectful German for stress, boundaries, support, and professional counseling. The deck uses non-diagnostic language and encourages immediate outside help when someone is in danger.

Modal Verbs

Express what you can, must, want, may, or should do.

Moving House

Practical German for packing, arranging transport and helpers, labeling boxes, and handling moving-day logistics.

Negation

Say clearly what is not true, available, wanted, or possible.

Neighbors

Friendly, respectful German for introductions, requests, shared spaces, noise, deliveries, and small favors.

Numbers & Measurements

Learn the number patterns and measurement phrases needed for shopping, travel, appointments, addresses, weather, and other everyday A2 tasks.

Office Technology

Learn the everyday German needed for computers, printers, files, online calls, and common office technology problems.

Official Forms

Practical German for entering personal details, following form instructions, and submitting documents.

Parks & Recreation

Learn useful German for park features, community recreation, meeting points, facilities, and leisure activities.

Paying for Purchases

Learn the practical German needed to ask about payment methods, follow card-terminal instructions, request receipts and change, split a payment, handle declined transactions, and understand how refunds are returned.

Perfect Tense

Say what happened yesterday, last week, or earlier today.

Personality

Describe common personality traits and behavior in a fair, practical way. The deck distinguishes a person’s general character from what someone does in one situation and includes language for softening opinions.

Picture Description Practice

Ready-to-use tools for organizing a short picture description. Learners identify the scene, locate details, describe visible actions, compare people, and make cautious guesses without inventing a story.

Places Around Town

Learn where everyday town services and activities happen, with short examples for describing destinations and locations.

Police & Emergency Services

Practice simple, calm German for police, fire, and ambulance contact, reporting incidents, and giving useful facts to responders.

Polite Requests

Reusable request patterns with Sie for strangers and service situations, plus du forms for familiar people. Each phrase shows how to ask without sounding abrupt.

Post Office

Practical German for addressing, mailing, tracking, and collecting post.

Present Tense

Use common German verbs to talk about daily life right now.

Professional Emails

Learn concise phrases for workplace requests, updates, attachments, replies, and polite follow-up messages. It assumes the learner already knows basic email parts.

Public Rules

Learn practical German for permissions, prohibitions, consideration, and everyday behavior in parks, buildings, and neighborhoods.

Public Signs

Learn 28 short signs you will often see on transport, in shops and buildings, and on streets or in public spaces. Each card focuses on the sign’s practical meaning and the action expected from you.

Public Transportation Announcements

Practice recognizing the phrases that signal delays, changed stops, replacement service, safety instructions, and required passenger actions in public announcements.

Question Words

Ask for the people, places, times, reasons, and details you need.

Reading Keywords

Learn to spot short German signals in notices, ads, schedules, forms, and emails. Each signal points you toward the detail that usually answers an exam question, such as a time limit, exception, change, condition, price, or required action.

Renting an Apartment

Learn practical A2 German for finding and renting an apartment. You will understand the most important details in a basic listing, ask politely about cost, size, location, and availability, arrange and attend a viewing, state simple needs, recognize core lease vocabulary, record the apartment’s cond

Repairs

Polite German for reporting damage, explaining simple problems, and making appointments with repair services.

Restaurants

Learn the German you need to reserve a table, understand a menu, order food and drinks, ask about ingredients, respond to staff, solve simple problems, pay the bill, and leave politely.

Returns & Exchanges

Practical German for bringing an item back, describing a defect, and understanding return options.

Rooms & Furniture

Learn the everyday German words for the main rooms and pieces of furniture in a home. Articles, plurals, and short location examples help you describe a simple home layout and say where things are.

Running Errands

Learn how to locate services, explain a simple task, ask for help, and complete common errands at places such as a post office, pharmacy, bank, and repair shop.

School Vocabulary

Learn high-frequency German for talking about school, understanding a timetable, discussing homework and attendance, and following simple classroom instructions.

Separable Verbs

Use common two-part verbs in plans, routines, and instructions.

Speaking Sentence Starters

Practical opening phrases for oral exam tasks: begin an answer, give a view, add a reason, ask a partner, clarify, and keep the exchange moving. The focus is usable speech, not grammar rules.

Symptoms & Body Parts

Learn high-frequency body parts and natural A2 phrases for everyday symptoms. Short examples with “Ich habe …” and “Mir tut … weh” help you explain clearly how you feel.

Telephone German

Learn how to answer the phone, introduce yourself, ask for someone, explain why you are calling, leave a message, manage connection problems and end a call politely. The deck uses neutral Standard German and the polite Sie form common in calls to businesses and people you do not know.

Text Messages & Chat

Practical phrases for arranging plans, giving quick updates, and replying naturally in personal text chats. The deck uses informal du-language unless a note says otherwise.

Time, Dates & Frequency

Build the practical time skills needed for everyday German. Learn to understand days and months, say dates and clock times, describe schedules and duration, put events in order, and explain how often routines happen.

Train & Bus German

Learn the practical German you need to find stops and platforms, read schedules, understand delays and announcements, ask about routes and transfers, validate a ticket, and get on and off at the right place.

Travel Problems

Practice reporting lost documents and luggage, dealing with missed or canceled travel, correcting booking errors, and requesting clear assistance.

Utilities

Practical German for understanding utility services, reporting supply problems, reading meters, and discussing bills.

Weather & Seasons

Learn to describe current conditions, understand a simple forecast, choose suitable clothing, and adjust everyday plans when the weather changes.

Word Order

Build clear everyday statements and questions in a natural order.

Workplace Vocabulary

Build the basic vocabulary needed to understand a workplace and talk about colleagues, shifts, breaks, tasks, and simple work arrangements.