A2 is where beginners become elementary speakers. Daily routines, preferences, past events, and simple plans.
Roughly 6–12 months of study.
A2 doubles your A1 vocabulary to around 1,000 words and shifts the focus from surviving to handling familiar situations. You add daily routines, simple past-tense narration ("I went, I saw, I bought"), shopping and travel vocabulary, descriptions of feelings, and words for talking about plans and preferences. Phrasal verbs start showing up regularly: get up, look for, find out, give back.
If you can describe your day, talk about last weekend in simple sentences, and order food without panic, you're around A2. Most learners reach A2 after 6–12 months of consistent study. This is the level where short conversations with strangers become possible, even if you still avoid abstract topics.
A2 is where many learners plateau because the early novelty wears off. The fix is to start consuming real input: news in simplified English, beginner podcasts, kids' books. Keep a 5–10 word/day spaced-repetition habit, but also start collecting words from what you read and watch. Words you meet in context stick faster than words from a list.