Kinderen ontdekken de sterrenhemel vanuit een ruimteschip
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners
Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos
What does "echt waar" mean in Dutch?
It's a Dutch intensifier or hedge. A Dutch interjection of disbelief — "really?" or "for real?" — flagging surprise at a claim.
“Echt waar.”
Hear "echt waar" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip
A 1:35 video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 219 words per minute, rated 4.3/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
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- ▸Storytelling - Personal stories, anecdotes, and lived experience.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?
89.9%
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
84%
Top 1,000
89.9%
Top 2,000
96.2%
Top 5,000
Spoken Dutch frequency
94%
Top 1,000
97.7%
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.
cometen
3×
Rare / outside top 5,000
comets
sterrenhemel
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
starry sky
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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