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A text from the German guideDienstag in ZürichGuided reading at A2 level
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Read an A2 German message, look up a word when you need its meaning and answer a comprehension question. Lira is a web app for learning languages through reading and vocabulary review.

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A2 German reading text with a comprehension question

German reading practice
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🇩🇪 GermanA2

Shopping after work

Dienstag in Zürich. Sibel geht um acht Uhr mit dem Hund ihrer Tante raus. Um halb zehn hat sie einen Videoanruf mit ihrem Team. Danach arbeitet sie bis 17.15 Uhr.

Die Tante fragt, ob Sibel Tee kaufen kann. Sibel antwortet: „Ja, nach der Arbeit. Ich bin gegen 17.30 Uhr im Laden und bringe den Tee um 18 Uhr mit.“ Sie braucht selbst Milch und Äpfel. Vor dem Einkaufen prüft sie die Liste, damit sie nichts vergisst.

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How can reading help you improve your German?

Start with a text whose situation you can follow. In this message, distinguish the times of the walk, the call and the working day. You are looking for a specific detail rather than translating every word.

Look up the words or expressions that block your understanding, then read the sentence again. The explained answer shows the clue that distinguishes the three times. Reading with support and reading unaided reveal different things about your understanding.

To continue, Lira offers reading guides and a reader for your own texts. After signing up, you can save words with their sentences and revisit them in vocabulary reviews. The difficulty of this text does not assess your overall German level.

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This text is labelled A2. If you are starting with no previous knowledge, choose a simpler reading first. Lira does not automatically turn a difficult original text into a beginner text.

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The Lira reader accepts your own texts and offers books from its catalogue. An original literary work can be much harder than an A2 message; word lookup helps with vocabulary without simplifying the sentence structure.

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