What changes between A1 and A2
A1 gets you through the transaction. A2 is where you start giving reasons, telling someone what happened yesterday, and saying what you thought of it. The vocabulary shifts with that: you stop naming objects and start naming states, opinions and events. A1 hands you la maison. A2 hands you le loyer and l'ascenseur, because now you are renting the place rather than pointing at it.
The paid deck holds 514 cards across 24 topics. The 25 here are hand-picked: the false friends and the words you cannot guess from English, the ones actually worth memorising rather than the easy cognates.
The A2 words that pull the most weight
Ă point is the one to learn before your next steak. It is how you order it medium in France, the waiter will ask, and there is no way to dodge the question politely.
La courbature is the ache you get two days after the gym, and French does it in one word where English needs three. Les fausses nouvelles, la visite guidée and l'auberge de jeunesse belong to the same A2 world of travelling, reading the news, and having opinions about both. That is the level in a sentence: you are no longer only describing your own life.
How A2 is tested in the DELF A2 and the TCF
The DELF A2 keeps the four papers and the 25 points each, but the tasks get longer. The writing paper asks for two short texts, usually an account of something that happened and a message reacting to an invitation or a piece of news. That is why the past tense and words like se souvenir and l'ambiance de travail turn up together.
In the oral, the second part is an exchange at a counter, in a shop, or at a rental agency. Le loyer, emprunter and la visite guidée are exactly the words the examiner is waiting to hear.