Raketten over Curaçao: De spanning in het Caribisch deel van het Koninkrijk
B2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 2:19 video in Dutch at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 167 words per minute, rated 4.1/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Politics - Politics, elections, government, and policy debates.
- ▸History - Historical events, eras, and the people who shaped the world.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?
86%
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
81.3%
Top 1,000
86%
Top 2,000
94.5%
Top 5,000
Spoken Dutch frequency
90.6%
Top 1,000
96.5%
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 B2 level.
zeemacht
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
naval power
afvuren
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
to fire (a weapon)
wordt Curaçao een gewelddadige oorlog ingezogen
1×
Curaçao dragged into violent conflict
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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