Amazon Drone Delivery Backlash in Texas
B1 English listening practice · American English · Curated for intermediate learners
About this clip
A 1:33 video in English at B1 level, suitable for intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 176 words per minute, rated 4.0/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
- ▸Technology - Tech, gadgets, software, AI, and the digital world.
From NBC News↗ on YouTube.Watch original
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B1 English listening practice listening practice?
84.1%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common English words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday English.
General English frequency
73.6%
Top 1,000
84.1%
Top 2,000
97.1%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
87%
Top 1,000
95%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-English 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 B1 level.
doordash
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
food delivery service
inescapable
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
unavoidable, cannot be avoided
highway of drones
1×
drone flight paths over communities
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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