Placement guide: A0 to A2 chooser

What this page trains

Use it before opening the academy if you studied French before, forgot part of it, or learned in a fragmented way through apps and short videos.

A good starting point is the level where your task control feels calm, not the level whose labels look impressive.

Core patterns and contrasts

A0 fits learners who still need support with alphabet, sound-spelling habits, greetings, numbers, time, and very short survival routines.

A1 fits learners who can already manage those basics and now need more daily routine, shopping, family, and town-navigation language. A2 fits learners who can already handle everyday basics and are ready for past events, plans, services, and practical problem solving.

• Choose by what you can do, not by what you vaguely remember.
• If you hesitate between two levels, start lower and move quickly.
• Use checkpoints and short recordings to verify your choice after one week.

Practice routine

Test yourself with one spoken self-introduction, one short writing task, and one practical listening or reading task. Those three samples usually reveal the honest level more clearly than memory alone.

Then choose one level and stay there for several lessons before changing again. Frequent switching creates noise instead of clarity.

• Try an A0 survival task, an A1 everyday task, and an A2 service task.
• Keep notes on which task types break first: sound, grammar, vocabulary, or confidence.
• Re-check placement only after a small lesson cluster, not after every individual page.

How to use this page

How to use this page: read the level descriptions, test one task at each nearby level, then commit to the lowest level where success feels repeatable. This page is meant to reduce second-guessing, not increase it.

Return after a break if you are unsure whether to resume where you stopped or rebuild from an earlier layer.

After reading the page, return immediately to one related lesson and rebuild a sentence, a short dialogue, a note, or a paragraph from memory. That same-day reuse keeps the page connected to the academy path and reveals whether the idea is active or only familiar.

• Best with start-here and beginner study plans.
• Useful again before exam-bridge planning.
• Pair your choice with one checkpoint or mock only after several lessons, not immediately.