Graded German Reading Texts, A1 to C2

By coverage: the share of the text's running words that fall at or below your CEFR level. A text is placed at A2 if an A2 learner already knows roughly four words in five, which is about the point where you can infer the rest from context instead of stopping at every line.

Because the text does not change but the reader does. The same article read at B1 and at C1 marks a different set of words as hard (at C1 far fewer of them are), so both versions are published rather than forcing one grade on it.

A2 upwards comes from three open German wikis, all CC BY-SA: mostly Klexikon, an encyclopaedia written for children, with Hurraki and MiniKlexikon in Leichte Sprache carrying A2. Every one of those links to the article it came from. The A1 texts are written for this site instead: even Leichte Sprache is above a beginner's first 600 words, and cutting a passage short enough to fit leaves a fragment rather than a text.

They are machine-generated and machine-checked, not reviewed by a teacher. They are good enough to unblock a sentence you are stuck on; treat a surprising translation as worth verifying rather than as authoritative.