Costco’s expansion in Australia’s supermarket price war
B1 English listening practice · South African English · Curated for intermediate learners
About this clip
A 2:07 video in English at B1 level, suitable for intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 175 words per minute, rated 4.2/5, medium listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸News & Current Events - Breaking news, current events, and journalism.
From 7NEWS Australia↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B1 English listening practice listening practice?
85.7%
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
75.5%
Top 1,000
85.7%
Top 2,000
94.2%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
84%
Top 1,000
93.4%
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.
aldi
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
discount supermarket chain
cashing
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
receiving money
pipped
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
overtaken or outperformed
cash in
1×
make a profit or benefit financially
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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