EU Probes China Over Peking Duck Exports
B2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 2:05 video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 190 words per minute, rated 4.0/5, hard 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.
From DW News↗ on YouTube.Watch original→
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?
82.7%
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
71.4%
Top 1,000
82.7%
Top 2,000
94.8%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
77.5%
Top 1,000
88.6%
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 B2 level.
fabled
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
legendary or mythical
fowl
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
domestic birds for food
hoisin
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Hoisin
inflame
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
to provoke intense feelings
predictably
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
as expected
looks like a duck, flies like a duck, quacks like a duck
1×
if something appears a certain way, it is.
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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