Kinderen waterskiën terwijl ze blind zijn
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners
Common Dutch phrase, spotted in 3 other videos
What does "een tijdje" mean in Dutch?
It's a Dutch idiom. A Dutch vague duration — "a while" or "for a bit" — using the diminutive -tje on tijd (time).
“Na een tijdje gingen dus kiezen uit elkaar.”
Hear "een tijdje" in 3 other Dutch videos:
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About this clip
A 45s video in Dutch at A2 level, suitable for beginners. The speech is at a natural pace around 221 words per minute, rated 3.7/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Sports - Soccer, basketball, tennis, the Olympics, and athletes.
- ▸Travel - Travel vlogs, tips, cultural experiences, and life abroad.
From NOS Jeugdjournaal↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?
88.2%
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
84.9%
Top 1,000
88.2%
Top 2,000
98.3%
Top 5,000
Spoken Dutch frequency
88.8%
Top 1,000
96.6%
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.
waterskiën
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
waterskiing
ziend
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
seeing
ehm
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
um
volt
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
volt
balans
1×
Top 5,000Common in speech
balance
volt vertrouwen
1×
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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