Defending Cargo Ships From Pirate Attacks
B1 English listening practice · English · Curated for intermediate learners
About this clip
A 39s video in English at B1 level, suitable for intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 226 words per minute, rated 4.5/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
- ▸Work & Career - Jobs, interviews, workplace culture, and money.
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Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B1 English listening practice listening practice?
86.8%
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
76.4%
Top 1,000
86.8%
Top 2,000
95.8%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
88%
Top 1,000
93.2%
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.
emptying
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
removing contents
seawater
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
ocean water
nozzle
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
fitted opening
bulletproof
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
resistant to bullets
gallons
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
unit of liquid measure
like a bullet
1×
very fast and powerful impact
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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