Practice FrenchLecture · niveau survie
French A2 reading practice
Short illustrated stories written for elementary French: everyday scenes, common past forms, and about two minutes of reading each. Read the passage in French, check the key vocabulary, then test yourself with comprehension questions.
Le croissant disparuFree full sample
What you can read at A2
A2 is the CEFR “survival” level: you understand sentences about familiar things — shopping, neighbours, daily routines — and you are starting to follow simple narration in the past. These stories are written exactly at that edge: short paragraphs, high-frequency vocabulary, passé composé and imparfait used the way A2 coursebooks teach them.
Every story is published with an English title and summary, a key-vocabulary list, and comprehension questions. In the app the same stories add recorded audio, tap-to-translate help, and saved progress. Each story’s language passes automated checks and human approval before publication.
The A2 stories
A2free full sample
Le croissant disparu
The Missing Croissant · 2 min · humour et mystère
A bakery searches for a missing croissant and discovers it was taken to a contest by mistake. Read the entire passage, the translation, and all questions free — no account.
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Le jardin sur le toit
The Garden on the Roof
Nora convinces her neighbors to turn an empty rooftop into a garden that improves the whole building.
Le robot qui avait faim
The Robot That Was Hungry
A classroom robot accidentally grabs Noé’s homework, but the problem is only a stuck cable.
La soupe du mardi
Tuesday Soup
Sami turns a few ingredients and neighborly help into dinner for his sister.
Le vélo bleu
The Blue Bicycle
Inès finds the owner of a lost blue bicycle and receives a kind thank-you.
La clé du casier
The Locker Key
Léo mistakes Emma’s lost key for his own before she helps him find his key at the bottom of his bag.
From Le croissant disparu
Le lundi matin, la boulangerie de Madame Roux sentait le beurre chaud. Sur le comptoir, il y avait un croissant spécial, grand comme une petite lune. Madame Roux voulait le montrer à un journal local.
A bakery searches for a missing croissant and discovers it was taken to a contest by mistake. continue reading →
Common questions
Is this really free?
Everything on these pages is free with no account. In the app, three reading lessons per day are free; a subscription removes the cap. The web version of the app stays free.
Should I use a dictionary while reading?
Not on the first pass. These stories are written so a A2 reader can follow the plot from context — that tolerance for ambiguity is itself the skill you are training. Use the vocabulary list on the second read instead.
How much should I read at A2?
Little and often beats long sessions: one short story a day, read twice, does more than an hour on Sunday. When you can follow all the A2 stories without the summaries, start the B1 stories.
Who writes these stories?
Stories are drafted with structured generation tools, pass automated language checks, and are approved by a human reviewer before publication. Found something off? Report it to support@toba.solutions.
Read with audio and translation help
The free app adds recorded audio, tap-to-translate, comprehension scoring, and saved progress across every story.