300 meter tiramisu in Santpoort

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A2 Dutch listening practice · Flemish Dutch · Curated for beginners

Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos

What does "een beetje" mean in Dutch?

It's a Dutch idiom. A Dutch hedge — "a little" or "a bit" — both literal quantifier and pragmatic softener.

“Ja, ik zei het net ook al van die familie is gewoon een beetje gek.”
Hear "een beetje" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip

A 52s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 200 words per minute, rated 4.0/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.

What this clip covers:
  • ▸Food & Cooking - Recipes, restaurant reviews, street food, and kitchen vocabulary.
  • ▸Parenting & Family - Family life, raising kids, and parenting advice.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?

93.2%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Dutch words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Dutch.

General Dutch frequency

91.5%
Top 1,000
93.2%
Top 2,000
96.6%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

92.9%
Top 1,000
100%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Dutch data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

tiramisu
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Italian coffee-flavored dessert
mascarpone
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
soft Italian cheese
amaretto
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
almond-flavored liqueur
boodschappenlijstje
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
shopping list
negenhonderd
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
nine hundred

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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