Charles Dickens Festival in Deventer
B1 English listening practice · British English · Curated for intermediate learners
About this clip
A 4:45 video in English at B1 level, suitable for intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 184 words per minute, rated 3.6/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Culture & Society - Traditions, current events, social issues, and history.
- ▸Books & Reading - Books, literature, and reading culture.
- ▸History - Historical events, eras, and the people who shaped the world.
- ▸Entertainment - TV shows, movies, music, books, and pop culture.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B1 English listening practice listening practice?
88.8%
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
81.8%
Top 1,000
88.8%
Top 2,000
95.8%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
89.5%
Top 1,000
96.3%
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.
scrooge
8×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Scrooge
daven
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
to pray (Jewish custom)
ebenezer
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Ebenezer
time traveling
1×
experiencing events from the past
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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